NYC Health Commissioner; NYS Prepares for an Influx of Out-of-State Abortions; Penn Revamp Financing; Heat in Europe

People sit covering their heads from the sun after a scaled down version of the Changing of the Guard ceremony outside Buckingham Palace, during Britain's first-ever extreme heat warning on 7/18/22.

On today's show:

  • New York City Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan, MD, PhD, talks about the public health challenges facing New Yorkers, including COVID and Monkeypox, plus the launch of 988 as a national suicide prevention number.
  • Gillian Dean, M.D., chief medical officer of Planned Parenthood of Greater New York (PPGNY), joins to discuss how abortion providers are gearing up for an influx of out-of-state patients coming to New York.
  • Stephen Nessen, transportation reporter for the WNYC Newsroom, talks about the announcement by Mayor Adams and Governor Hochul of a 'financial framework' to fund the Penn Station plan, plus other transit-related news.
  • The U.K. has declared a national emergency due to unprecedented heat. Elsewhere in Europe, Spain and Portugal have recorded hundreds of heat-related deaths. Andrew Freedman, energy and climate reporter at Axios, discusses the hellish weather sweeping across the continent.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as soon as they are available.