Listen: Biotech meme stocks, the lessons of Spanish Flu, & becoming a pandemic celebrity
How do pandemics end? Who gets to be a TV media expert? And where does one acquire diamond hands?
We cover all that and more this week on “The Readout LOUD,” STAT’s biotech podcast. First, we discuss Ginkgo Bioworks, the multibillion-dollar biotech company with grand ambitions, a famous ticker symbol, and an affinity for memes. Then, STAT’s Helen Branswell joins us to discuss a topic on everyone’s mind: How will the Covid-19 pandemic end? Finally, we’ll talk about the modern phenomenon of the pandemic celebrity and the case of Ashish Jha, TV’s ever-present Covid-19 expert.
