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Regional Differences in Fighting COVID-19

Host Ginny Chadwick is joined by Corina Pfeil, City Councilmember from Kenmore, WA, to discuss major differences in navigating the pandemic on the West Coast versus th...

Clarifying a recent CDC statistic about mask use

Host Dr. Elizabeth Alleman clarifies a misleading statistic about mask usage that has been pulled from a July CDC report about COVID transmission. She also gives an ov...

Voting Information for Boone County

Host Ginny Chadwick is joined by Boone County Clerk Brianna Lennon to discuss options for voting in the General Election on November 3.

Returning Students to Public Schools: Teachers' Considerations & Concerns

Host Ginny Chadwick interviews two members of the Columbia Missouri National Education Association: Kathy Steinhoff of Hickman High School, and Ann Aloft of West Boule...

A Conversation with Columbia School Board Member David Seamon

Host Ginny Chadwick is joined by Columbia School Board Member David Seamon to discuss the current and future plans for student online and in-person learning, including...

What We Can Learn from High Profile COVID Cases

Host Dr. Elizabeth Allemann gives an overview of COVID treatments administered to President Trump during his stay at Walter Reed Medical Center. We also review common ...

The Latest COVID News

Ginny Chadwick and Dr. Elizabeth Allemann discuss a variety of topics related to the latest COVID news on a local and national scale, including: herd immunity, vaccine...

Local Testing, Positivity Rate Explained & More

Dr. Elizabeth Allemann and Ginny Chadwick discuss the latest COVID news for Mid-Missouri, including access to testing, analysis of the positivity rate, and more.

A Columbia Resident's Experience with COVID-19

For this episode, we hear from Columbia resident Daryle Bascom, who tested positive for COVID-19 at the start of the pandemic. He joins host Ginny Chadwick to discuss ...

How to cast your ballot in the upcoming General Election

Host Dr. Elizabeth Allemann is joined by Boone County Clerk Brianna Lennon to outline options for in-person, mail-in, and absentee voting in Boone County for the Nov. ...

Travel Safety During the Pandemic

Host Ginny Chadwick is joined by Jennifer Roberts, coronavirus community advocate in Columbia, to discuss traveling during the pandemic, the "15 minute" criteria for ...

City Council's Role in Developing Local Public Health Policy

Host Dr. Elizabeth Allemann is joined by Columbia City Council Member Ian Thomas to discuss the state of the pandemic in Mid-Missouri and the public health challenges ...

Life in the "Red Zone"

Ginny Chadwick and her guest, Karina Koji, Columbia parent and local public health activist, discuss the newly released "red zone reports" issued to governors from the...

Boone County COVID Updates

Dr. Elizabeth Allemann covers testing access, hospital capacity, local infection rates, and more.

Biking, Trails, and Other Outdoor Activities During COVID

Host Ginny Chadwick is joined by Lawrence Simonson, Chief Strategy Officer for PedNet Coalition, to discuss the value of outdoor activities for families and individual...

Educating Kids Outside

Dr. Elizabeth Allemann is joined by Brian Crosby, owner and founder of Fern and Feather Forest School in Corvallis, Oregon. They discuss the specifics of providing all...

Listening to Teachers' Voices on Safely Reopening Schools

Host Ginny Chadwick is joined by Kathy Steinhoff, president of Columbia Missouri National Education Association (CMNEA) and a math teacher at Hickman High School, as w...

Schools, Bars, and COVID-19

Dr. Elizabeth Allemann and Ginny Chadwick discuss increases in case numbers in Boone County, Columbia Public Schools' metric for determining their mode of instruction,...

Taking Learning Outside

Host Ginny Chadwick speaks with Mike Szydlowski, K-12 Science Coordinator for Columbia Public Schools, about the document “Taking Learning Outside…in Any Subject Area”...

The Food Bank

Host Ginny Chadwick speaks with Daryle Bascom, Chief Operations Officer at the Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri.

Voting by Mail-in and Absentee Ballots

Host Dr. Elizabeth Allemann speaks with Boone County Clerk Brianna Lennon about the upcoming general elections, being a poll worker, and the difference between mail-in...

COVID in a College Town

Dr. Elizabeth Allemann discusses the public health challenges our community faces as students return to town. She also shares her open letter to Boone County decision ...

Mask Efficacy and Virus Transmission

Host Dr. Elizabeth Allemann and guest Sarah Davis discuss recent studies about mask efficacy and virus transmission via respiratory droplets. Sarah Davis is a local pu...

COVID-19 and the Missouri State Budget

Host Ginny Chadwick and Representative Kip Kendrick of the Missouri State House 45th District discuss how COVID-19 and other policies have affected the Missouri state ...

Outdoor Education

Host Dr. Elizabeth Allemann is joined by Tori Kassabaum, Director of School Affairs at City Garden School in Columbia, to discuss outdoor education and how moving scho...

A Conversation with Ashley Millham of Boone County's Department of Public Health

Host Dr. Elizabeth Allemann is joined by Ashley Millham MD, Family Physician and Medical Director of the Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Se...

Research Recap: Transmission Among Children

Host Dr. Elizabeth Allemann is joined by Sarah Davis, CPM, MPH, long-time home birth midwife and mother of school-aged children, to discuss the latest research on tran...

Matthew Holloway on Collecting COVID data in Missouri

Host Ginny Chadwick is joined by Matthew Holloway to discuss his work tracking coronavirus data in each of Missouri's 114 counties.

Doctors Seeing Fewer Premature Births

Dr. Elizabeth Allemann is joined by Dr. Tim O’Connor, Director of Newborn Intensive Care at Boone Hospital Center, to discuss the surprising decrease in premature birt...

COVID News Roundup

Dr. Elizabeth Allemann discusses how students with positive test results will be tracked by Mizzou and the local public health department. She also covers a new study ...