Happy Birthday, COVID

Kendall and Jamie talk to heart transplant recipient Callie Tansill-Suddath about the Johns Hopkins study into transplant recipients' response to the vaccines (which both Kendall and Callie are a part of), what it means for their own protection against the virus, and broader uncertainties for immunocompromised people. Information on early results from the first cohort of study participants: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/covid-19-story-tip-covid-19-vaccines-may-not-produce-sufficient-antibody-response-in-transplant-recipients  Contact us! Want to get in touch with us? Email us at [email protected] or leave us a message at 862-201-4796. We might even play your message on a future show. Like our show? Throw us a rating. That helps other people like you, find us! Thanks so much for being our people. We hope to be yours! Follow Kendall and Jamie.

Kendall and Jamie are now both fully vaccinated, and compare and contrast their responses to the different vaccines. They also discuss their own conflicting feelings about vaccine FOMO, "line cutting" discourse, and actual line cutting. Contact us! Want to get in touch with us? Email us at [email protected] or leave us a message at 862-201-4796. We might even play your message on a future show. Like our show? Throw us a rating. That helps other people like you, find us! Thanks so much for being our people. We hope to be yours! Follow Kendall and Jamie.

Jamie and Kendall are joined by Dr. James Hamblin of The Atlantic to discuss his recent article on the likelihood of having a normal, almost-non-pandemic summer this year. They also talk the vaccine rollout, the global view of pandemic management, and how James called pretty much everything over a year ago. A Quite Possibly Wonderful Summer: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/02/summer-2021-pandemic/618088/ Contact us! Want to get in touch with us? Email us at [email protected] or leave us a message at 862-201-4796. We might even play your message on a future show. Like our show? Throw us a rating. That helps other people like you, find us! Thanks so much for being our people. We hope to be yours! Follow Kendall and Jamie.

Kendall and Jamie discuss Anna Altman's essay in The New Republic, "The Consolations of the Illness Memoir," what exactly the genre is for anymore, and what makes an illness book and illness book. They also talk about their own adventures in writing and talking about illness, which they'll surely write and talk about at some point.  "The Consolations of the Illness Memoir": https://newrepublic.com/article/161387/consolations-illness-memoir-tessa-miller-book-review WARNING: This is now a 50% vaccinated podcast. Listen at your own discretion.  Contact us! Want to get in touch with us? Email us at [email protected] or leave us a message at 862-201-4796. We might even play your message on a future show. Like our show? Throw us a rating. That helps other people like you, find us! Thanks so much for being our people. We hope to be yours! Follow Kendall and Jamie.

Jamie and Kendall discuss how COVID has forced employers and companies to reconsider the workplace, and whether they think office culture will be more accommodating even after the pandemic is gone.  Contact us! Want to get in touch with us? Email us at [email protected] or leave us a message at 862-201-4796. We might even play your message on a future show. Like our show? Throw us a rating. That helps other people like you, find us! Thanks so much for being our people. We hope to be yours! Follow Kendall and Jamie.

Kendall and Jamie return to disclosing too much about their dating lives, now with added Pandemic context. They argue about the virtues of Zoom dating and discuss the personal calculations of balancing safety and autonomy.  Contact us! Want to get in touch with us? Email us at [email protected] or leave us a message at 862-201-4796. We might even play your message on a future show. Like our show? Throw us a rating. That helps other people like you, find us! Thanks so much for being our people. We hope to be yours! Follow Kendall and Jamie.

Everybody wants one, nobody's getting them. Kendall and Jamie discuss the vaccine rollout, Kendall's CNN op-ed on the subject, and the issues with current prioritization. They also get into scams like Philly Fighting COVID, the Fyre Fest of vaccine distribution that was being run by a 22-year-old psychology student.  Kendall's op-ed: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/28/opinions/young-immunocompromised-covid-19-vaccine-priority-ciesemier/index.html?utm_content=2021-01-28T21%3A25%3A31&utm_source=twCNN&utm_medium=social&utm_term=link NPR story on Philly Fighting COVID: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/29/962143659/in-philadelphia-a-scandal-erupts-over-vaccination-start-up-led-by-22-year-old Contact us! Want to get in touch with us? Email us at [email protected] or leave us a message at 862-201-4796. We might even play your message on a future show. Like our show? Throw us a rating. That helps other people like you, find us! Thanks so much for being our people. We hope to be yours! Follow Kendall and Jamie.

Kendall and Jamie are back from their hiatus to talk about COVID (roughly) one year later, what it's been like dealing with other illnesses during a pandemic, and their varying feelings on COVID compliance. They also dig into the ableism that continues to permeate the discourse, and make several perfect predictions, which are sure to come true, about when and how this all will end. Contact us! Want to get in touch with us? Email us at [email protected] or leave us a message at 862-201-4796. We might even play your message on a future show. Like our show? Throw us a rating. That helps other people like you, find us! Thanks so much for being our people. We hope to be yours! Follow Kendall and Jamie.

Kendall and Jamie patch in from their childhood bedrooms to touch base on the latest with COVID-19, and the experience of living through a global health crisis as chronically sick people. They also chat with Woody Roseland, a Denver-based filmmaker who believes he may have COVID, but can't get tested despite his risk as a cancer survivor.  Read Kendall's op-ed in the New York Times, "Afraid of Coronavirus? I Know What That Fear Is Like": https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/opinion/coronavirus-disability-fear.html?referringSource=articleShare

A TTDontKillMe Special Report: Kendall and Jamie emerge from hiatus to discuss the hot new plague sweeping the nation, how worried they are, and what you can do to help protect the immunocompromised.