In this episode, we seek to put the current COVID-19 pandemic into perspective by speaking with Dr. David M. Oshinsky.
As the director of the Division of Medical Humanities at New York University, Oshinsky has a direct connection to the medical community in New York City, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States. And as the author of several books, including "Polio: An American Story," for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2006, and "Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital," he shares additional insight into how this pandemic compares with those of the past including one of the greatest stories of modern medicine, the roll-out of the polio vaccine.
