Living Through the Plague: A Conversation with Nicholas Christakis

In the latest episode of our podcast, Two for Tea, editor-in-chief Iona Italia talks to epidemiologist, sociologist and doctor Nicholas Christakis about what he calls “the end of the beginning” of the Covid-19 pandemic. We discuss the lifting of restrictions, the trade offs involved, the efficacy of masking, vaccines and boosters and what we can learn as a society from our experiences with Covid.

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Nicholas Christakis

Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University, directs the Human Nature Lab and is the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science. He conducts research in the fields of network science, biosocial science and behaviour genetics.He is the co-author, with James Fowler, of Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives (2009) and the author of Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society (2019) and Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live (2020).

Iona Italia

Iona Italia is Areo Magazine's editor-in-chief and the host of the associated podcast Two for Tea. She is the author of two books: Anxious Employment (a study of eighteenth-century essayists) and Our Tango World (sociological and philosophical musings on dance and life). Her political essays can be found here; she also publishes weekly creative non-fiction pieces on her Substack, The Second Swim.