{"podcast":{"title":"Pomegranate Health","slug":"pomegranate-health-4653","podcast_index_feed_id":4653,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/1730869.rss","website_url":"https://www.racp.edu.au/podcast","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/zenfflytjf12idhduk9fosqj4334?.jpg","author":"the Royal Australasian College of Physicians","episode_count":152,"summary":"Pomegranate Health is a podcast about the culture of medicine. You'll hear clinicians, researchers and advocates discuss all aspects of professionalism and quality improvement in healthcare. This includes clinical ethics, diagnostic bias, better communication and more equitable systems. For a sampler of these diverse themes of professional practice take a listen to Episode 132 and Episode 125 . If RACP is your CPD home, you can log time spent listening to each episode with the \"Add activity to MyCPD\" button. And if you're a Basic Physician Trainee, the [Case Report] series might help you prepare for your long case clinical exams. This is also the home of [IMJ On-Air] , featuring authors from the Internal Medicine Journal sharing their latest research. Meanwhile, the [Journal Club] episodes give RACP members a place to talk through their research published in other academic journals. Feel free to send feedback and suggestions by email at podcast@racp.edu.au .","last_synced_at":"2026-07-13T04:20:59.115078+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pomegranate-health-4653"},"episode":{"title":"Ep145: Dealing with the next pandemic 1- border closures and vaccine mandates","slug":"ep145-dealing-with-the-next-pandemic-1-border-closures-and-vaccine-mandates","published_at":"2026-03-30T01:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pomegranate-health-4653/ep145-dealing-with-the-next-pandemic-1-border-closures-and-vaccine-mandates","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pomegranate-health-4653","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/1730869/episodes/18927700-ep145-dealing-with-the-next-pandemic-1-border-closures-and-vaccine-mandates.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/1730869/episodes/18927700-ep145-dealing-with-the-next-pandemic-1-border-closures-and-vaccine-mandates.mp3","summary":"While waiting for COVID-19 vaccines to be rolled out, Australian jurisdictions adopted strong social restrictions to minimise community transmission of the virus. It’s estimated that together, these public health measures spared around 50,000 lives up to December 2022 and that vaccines saved three times as many again. While this public health response the pandemic is described as one of the most effective in the world it did cause unintended social harms and lingering resentment. Our leaders ...","meta_description":"While waiting for COVID-19 vaccines to be rolled out, Australian jurisdictions adopted strong social restrictions to minimise community transmission of th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3947,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/pomegranate-health-4653/episodes/ep145-dealing-with-the-next-pandemic-1-border-closures-and-vaccine-mandates/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pomegranate-health-4653/ep145-dealing-with-the-next-pandemic-1-border-closures-and-vaccine-mandates.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}