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Confronting Coronavirus

Confronting Coronavirus

67 Episodes • By The Irish Times • soundcloud.com/irishtimes-corona...
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Confronting Coronavirus
Confronting Coronavirus
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The biggest story of our lives, part two
This is the final instalment of the Confronting Coro... more
Jul 16 2020 27m
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The biggest story of our lives, part one
This is the final instalment of the Confronting Coro... more
Jul 15 2020 19m
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The emotional impact of Covid-19 with Clinical Psychologist Tony Bates
Traditionally, one in five of the population experie... more
Jul 6 2020 26m
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“Aid is politics” - lockdown in Uganda with Sally Hayden
In today’s episode, we hear from Irish Times journal... more
Jul 2 2020 19m
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“We must demand equal access to future vaccines”
As the global race to find a vaccine for Covid-19 co... more
Jun 30 2020 14m
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Lifting the lockdown: What can I do in Phase 3?
Ireland is approaching Phase 3 of the Roadmap for Re... more
Jun 27 2020 17m
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A coronavirus surge shocks Beijing - with Peter Goff
The return of restrictions on life in Beijing comes ... more
Jun 18 2020 16m
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"There's remarkable buy-in from prisoners" - How the Irish Prison System kept Covid-19 Out
This week the Irish Prison Service put forward a pap... more
Jun 17 2020 18m
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How Contagion predicted a pandemic - with screenwriter Scott Z. Burns and Dr Ian Lipkin
In this episode, Irish Times Features Writer Patrick... more
Jun 12 2020 20m
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Lockdown is lifting, but new rules cause many conundrums - with Conor Pope
Conor Pope has been looking at how Ireland is reopen... more
Jun 10 2020 18m
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"The psycho-social impact is far greater - and will last much longer"
In our hospitals and psychiatric clinics, it has alr... more
Jun 9 2020 24m
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"Compliance is not as good on the way down as it was on the way up"
Next week, Ireland will enter phase two of the roadm... more
Jun 5 2020 25m
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"It's callous to leave businesses closed if they don't need to be"
Should all retailers, restaurants and tourism be all... more
Jun 2 2020 23m
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The effect of lockdowns and the return of mobility: what the data tells us
Barry Smyth is a data scientist. Early on in the out... more
May 29 2020 18m
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Why did it take so long for a nursing home plan to be put in place?
Coronavirus has presented a huge challenge for our h... more
May 28 2020 22m
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How to be ready for an unpredictable future - with author Margaret Heffernan
Margaret Heffernan is a businesswoman and author who... more
May 27 2020 34m
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"Local lockdowns needed to keep virus at bay" - Dr David Nabarro
Yesterday we reached a significant milestone in our ... more
May 26 2020 28m
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The Impact of Covid-19 on the young with psychotherapist John Sharry
Among the people most affected by this crisis are ch... more
May 25 2020 21m
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Rethinking nursing homes and the lives of our elderly after Covid-19
Is it time to dispense with nursing homes? The death... more
May 22 2020 24m
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Ireland to start antibody testing next month: what that means and how it will help
Political correspondent Harry McGee tells Deirdre Ve... more
May 21 2020 20m
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"I happen to be taking it": Trump's hydroxychloroquine bombshell and the politicisation of Covid-19
Today we're recapping a very eventful few weeks in t... more
May 20 2020 27m
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The return of retail shows just how much things have changed - with Conor Pope
Yesterday some retailers reopened in phase one of th... more
May 19 2020 12m
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Coronavirus and private hospitals: decision time
The argument for taking 19 private hospitals into pu... more
May 18 2020 21m
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"The world will divide in two": Professor Sam McConkey on living with Covid-19 in the years ahead
Professor Sam McConkey has been one of the most prom... more
May 14 2020 17m
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Guided by science and not by the calendar: How the North will exit lockdown
This week the Northern Ireland Executive published p... more
May 14 2020 16m
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