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It’s been two years since Governor Charlie Baker declared a COVID state of emergency in Massachusetts. To mark the occasion, In It Together brought back some old friends of the show to reflect on the pandemic and where we go from here. Arun Rath speaks with Boston Medical Center’s Dr. Cassandra Pierre, Franciscan Children’s Hospital behavioral health director Dr. Fatima Watt, La Colaborativa executive director Gladys Vega, and local comedian Lamont Price, as well as GBH reporters Craig LeMoult and Meg Woolhouse.

In In It Together’s final episode before a summer break, Arun Rath checks back in with the family of Keith Jacobs, who died from COVID-19 last year, to discuss the massive toll this pandemic has taken. And Arun speaks with regular guest Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, now the founding director of Boston University’s new Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy and Research.

After more than a year closed, the Brattle Theater is set to re-open its doors this July. We’ll hear what we can expect about programming and the experience from Ivy Moylan, executive director and co-founder, and Ned Hinkle, creative director. And yes, there will be a Jaws screening. Wouldn't be the Fourth of July without one.

We'll hear about the need for investment in local minority-owned businesses, especially as we emerge from the pandemic, when Arun Rath speaks with Kofi Callender of Roxbury-based start-up organization E for All and Widline Pyrame of Fusion Dolls.

The pandemic closed churches last year, preventing people from not only worshipping in person together, but grieving together. This is especially true for churches in communities of color. We'll hear more about this collective trauma from Reverend Emmett Price and Reverend Irene Monroe, both co-hosts of the GBH podcast, All Revv'd Up.

Live local theater is getting back underway. The first performance in the Boston area will be at Arlington's Regent Theatre, where Michael Levin will perform his one-man show called "The Mom Show," about his mother's escape from Nazi Germany and how she made it to the U.S. Arun Rath speaks with Levin.

Most of the state's COVID-19 restrictions relax on Saturday, but according to a new survey, depression levels across the board remain high, even as the pandemic here in the United States improves. Host Arun Rath speaks with Dr. Roy Perlis, the director for the Center for Quantitative Health at Mass General Hospital, about the findings.

The murder of George Floyd by police nearly a year ago has forced America to reexamine issues of race in all sorts of areas. That includes healthcare, especially in the context of the pandemic. Arun Rath speaks with community health expert Dr. Monica Wang, Associate Director of Narrative at the B.U. Center for Antiracist Research, about how Floyd's murder has prompted the field of medicine to take a hard look at itself. Arun also speaks with Boston Medical Center’s Dr. Sabrina Assoumou about the disparities in healthcare access and health outcomes faced by communities of color.

We’ve been checking in with GBH's Executive Arts Editor Jared Bowen since the start of the pandemic. It's been up's and down's throughout the last 14 months for arts institutions in the state, but with restrictions relaxing in about a week, there's positive news on the horizon for them as they welcome summer.

The state is getting ready to bring COVID restrictions to an end this Memorial Day weekend, and some doctors say that decision makes sense. But others are skeptical, including UMass Medical Center's Dr. Robert Klugman, who speaks with Arun Rath.

When it comes to Massachusetts communities hit disproportionately hard by COVID, Chelsea is at or near the top of the list. Arun Rath speaks with Gladys Vega, head of La Colaborativa, formerly known as the Chelsea Collective, to hear how things are going in Chelsea as the pandemic seemingly winds down.

The state is getting ready to lift pandemic restrictions, but the vaccination effort still has a ways to go, especially in hard to reach communities. Arun Rath speaks with Mass General’s Dr. Alister Martin about the GOTVax campaign he's working on through Mass General and Boston Medical Center.

MIT political scientist Evan Lieberman talks about a paper he recently co-authored that looks at how different social and racial groups perceive COVID-19 health disparities and how that data can be used in future public health messaging campaigns.

Community health centers have been an important part of the state's vaccine strategy, and with mass vaccination sites set to close, they're about to become even more vital. Arun Rath speaks with Michael Curry, head of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers.

It's been a mystery from the beginning: why do some people become much sicker - than others with Covid - and why do some people just get a mild case, or don't have symptoms at all? Nearly a year and a half into the pandemic, public health officials are learning more about why that is. Host Arun Rath speaks with Dr. Marcia Goldberg, an infectious disease expert at Mass General Hospital, about a new study that looks at that variability in COVID.

Prisons and jails have been hotspots for coronavirus. But the Middlesex House of Correction is making a novel effort to fight outbreaks. It's the first detention facility in the country to monitor for the virus in its wastewater. We'll hear more about the monitoring program from Middlesex County sheriff Peter Koutoujian.

We continue our look at how the relaxing of state restrictions will impact some businesses. Like many indoor performance spaces, the Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield has had an up and down time of it since the pandemic shut down the Company last spring. But this summer, they're planning indoor and outdoor performances with audiences for the first time in months. We’ll hear from Julianne Boyd, the Company's artistic director, about what those performances will look like and what she's most looking forward to this summer.

Arun Rath speaks with GBH State House reporter Mike Deehan, who gives us a primer on the state's rollback of COVID regulations. And Arun checks back in with Mimi Loureiro, founder of the O2 Yoga studio in Somerville, about how businesses like hers are handling this stage of the pandemic.

The India Association of Greater Boston is nearly 60 years old. Host Arun Rath speaks with the director of Civic Engagement for the India Association, Guru Samaga, about what what local Indian Americans are doing, individually and within institutions, to help with the crisis in India.

Arun Rath speaks with Dr. Louise Ivers, head of the Center for Global Health at Mass. General, about how places like Massachusetts, where vaccinations are going well, can't be fully safe from COVID as long as the virus is active in other parts of the world.