All statements about tuberculosis

569 statements about tuberculosis in 132 videos, by upload date.

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2014

2014-01-21 · Are Poor Countries Doomed? — John says malaria, measles and TB have all declined dramatically, and healthier kids go to school more and later work more than if chronically ill or disabled. — 00:02:09

2018

2018-01-23 · On Emergencies — John: Humans are deeply interconnected as a species: when drug shortages interrupt tuberculosis treatment, the multi-drug resistant TB that spreads is not only Sierra Leone's problem. — 00:01:53
2018-01-23 · On Emergencies — John: In Sierra Leone in 2014 twice as many people died of tuberculosis as of Ebola, and almost all those TB deaths were preventable. — 00:02:22

2019

2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John: In Sierra Leone earlier this year (2019) John spent a day with Ruth, a PIH community health worker who makes house calls to people with serious illnesses like tuberculosis or HIV. — 00:00:09
2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John says it is unacceptable that thousands of women will die in childbirth in Sierra Leone this year (2019) and thousands more of treatable illnesses, and we don't have to accept it. — 00:07:13
2019-12-03 · We Are Cats Now, I Guess? — John: Mabel now helps people with HIV and tuberculosis get care and reduce transmission, and her salary lets her send her kids to school: the generational change the P4A tries to support. — 00:03:15

2020

2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — recommendation: John recommends the Netflix documentary Bending the Arc, on how PIH proved that treating multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in poor countries was possible when the global health community thought it impossible. — 00:00:58
2020-12-15 · America's Capital of Dead Vice Presidents — John says the first person buried at Crown Hill was Lucy Ann Seaton, who died of tuberculosis in 1864 at 33. — 00:02:26

2022

2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — John: Emma, a 13-year-old in Kono and twin of Kadie, had a seizure; first treated for suspected malaria, she was driven five hours to a CT scanner, which revealed tuberculous meningitis. — 00:02:38
2022-02-22 · On the Death of My Hero — John: Farmer helped make the case that treating multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is necessary even when expensive or logistically complicated. — 00:01:27
2022-02-22 · On the Death of My Hero — Paul Farmer (quoted): In Infections and Inequalities, which John calls brilliant, Farmer wrote that opposing aggressive MDR-TB treatment in poor countries values lives differently: its advocates would never accept that death sentence. — 00:01:27
2022-02-24 · How to Make Potatoes While Dread Presses In from Every Direction — John says that, rather than tuberculosis, King Tut might have died of a fractured femur. (hedged) — 00:01:56
2022-06-21 · On Disease — John says that over the last 2,000 years more people almost certainly died of tuberculosis than in all wars combined. (hedged) — 00:01:27
2022-06-21 · On Disease — John says more people died of tuberculosis than in war last year (2021), and in every year back to World War II. — 00:01:27
2022-09-13 · A Million Things at Once — John started the channel as an experiment in building an organic audience for shorter videos; it failed: a video on tuberculosis and Toulouse-Lautrec got 17 views in two months. — 00:00:47
2022-10-11 · Most People Have Never Been 20 — John says 200 years ago about a quarter of all humans died of tuberculosis, most of them under 40. — 00:01:56
2022-11-15 · 3 Years In: What Happened, Why, and What's Next — John says PIH has long fought for equity in health care: it proved multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatable in poor communities and helped lead the push for antiretroviral therapy for people with HIV. — 00:04:22

2023

2023-01-31 · I'm Going Back to College? — John: After school John fell in love with learning; over the last year he has read a ridiculous number of books about tuberculosis, though it is not his job. — 00:00:58
2023-01-31 · I'm Going Back to College? — John says that in 2022 more people died of tuberculosis than of homicide, war, malaria, typhoid and cholera combined. — 00:00:58
2023-01-31 · I'm Going Back to College? — John says tuberculosis, almost always curable, still kills a million and a half people per year. — 00:01:27
2023-01-31 · I'm Going Back to College? — John asks why he grew up thinking TB was a disease of 19th-century poets, and why the world is not on fire with the injustice of tuberculosis. — 00:01:27
2023-01-31 · I'm Going Back to College? — John explores these questions in his free time for fun, which would have been hard to explain to his 19-year-old self. — 00:01:27
2023-01-31 · I'm Going Back to College? — John admits he romanticizes college: he imagines only courses fitting his interests, like a social history of tuberculosis, not required ones like math. — 00:01:56
2023-02-07 · Mid-Morning Existential Crisis: The Format Returns — John recently came across an 1833 book, The Infirmities of Genius, which says authors have a personality that makes them unusually susceptible to tuberculosis. — 00:00:00
2023-02-07 · Mid-Morning Existential Crisis: The Format Returns — John says 19th-century tuberculosis, like some mental health conditions today, was both heavily stigmatized and heavily romanticized, and these are not opposites. — 00:00:33
2023-02-07 · Mid-Morning Existential Crisis: The Format Returns — John says sufferers were told they were separate from the social order and less than fully human, yet also that they might be geniuses whose affliction was their superpower. — 00:00:33
2023-02-07 · Mid-Morning Existential Crisis: The Format Returns — John says OCD does not make you a brilliant detective like Sherlock Holmes, and tuberculosis does not make you a great writer. — 00:01:03
2023-02-07 · Mid-Morning Existential Crisis: The Format Returns — John says authors were very susceptible to TB not because of their passions but because, at the time, TB caused about a third of all deaths in England. — 00:01:03
2023-02-07 · Mid-Morning Existential Crisis: The Format Returns — John says, as if it were news, that he has been reading a lot about tuberculosis recently. (playful) — 00:02:20
2023-02-28 · Empathy and its Limits — John says strategies for limiting empathy are built into language, like 'invalid', the English word for people in the 19th century disabled by tuberculosis. — 00:00:58
2023-02-28 · Empathy and its Limits — John says 19th-century invalids' memoirs often express feeling ignored and left behind, as if their community's empathy could not reach them because they had become invisible. — 00:01:27
2023-02-28 · Empathy and its Limits — John says he has just read a bunch of 19th-century invalids' memoirs. — 00:02:47
2023-03-14 · The Seduction of Despair — John says 1.6 million people will die of tuberculosis this year (2023), not for lack of understanding or cures, but because of inequitable access to health care, impoverishment and other injustice. — 00:00:55
2023-03-28 · My Tuberculosis Reading List — John says he has been reading a lot about tuberculosis lately: many journal articles and over 20 books. — 00:00:00
2023-03-28 · My Tuberculosis Reading List — John notes the historical facts people like most: TB gave us the cowboy hat, the stethoscope and Pasadena, California. — 00:00:00
2023-03-28 · My Tuberculosis Reading List — John begins with a contemporary first-person account because TB is not exclusively or even primarily historical. — 00:00:29
2023-03-28 · My Tuberculosis Reading List — recommendation: John recommends Stigmatized by Handaa Enkh-Amgalan, a memoir of a young woman from a poor Mongolian community whose TB diagnosis brings dehumanization and stigmatization; he loved it. — 00:00:29
2023-03-28 · My Tuberculosis Reading List — recommendation: John recommends Phantom Plague by Vidya Krishnan, probably his favorite TB history: approachable and readable yet rigorously researched. (hedged) — 00:00:58
2023-03-28 · My Tuberculosis Reading List — John says he learned from Phantom Plague that Arthur Conan Doyle took part in TB research and that TB shaped ideas of vampires. — 00:00:58
2023-03-28 · My Tuberculosis Reading List — John recounts Shreya Tripathi's story: a teenager with multidrug-resistant TB who had to sue her government for treatment, won too late and died of TB at 19. — 00:01:27
2023-03-28 · My Tuberculosis Reading List — Paul Farmer (quoted): Farmer argues tuberculosis cannot be separated from the social conditions that lead to it, such as poverty, malnutrition and overcrowded housing. — 00:01:56
2023-03-28 · My Tuberculosis Reading List — John says many TB drugs were synthesized between 1950 and 1961, but none was developed between 1961, around when TB stopped being a problem in rich countries, and 2012. — 00:03:24
2023-03-28 · My Tuberculosis Reading List — ask: John asks viewers to vote with global health in mind and to work to increase awareness of this profound injustice. — 00:03:24
2023-03-28 · My Tuberculosis Reading List — ask: John asks viewers who can to donate to Partners In Health or other organizations working to make TB history. — 00:03:24
2023-05-16 · Did TB Cause World War I? — John asks whether tuberculosis, which gave us the stethoscope, the Adirondack chair and New Mexico, also partly gave us World War I; his answer is 'kinda'. (hedged) — 00:00:00
2023-05-16 · Did TB Cause World War I? — John's son came home from school and told him tuberculosis partly caused World War I; John was proud, and the story turned out to be true. — 00:00:00
2023-05-16 · Did TB Cause World War I? — recommendation: The description and John's comment point viewers to his Washington Post op-ed on the ongoing horror of tuberculosis. — video description
2023-05-16 · Did TB Cause World War I? — announcement: John's comment says the op-ed is about a young man he met at the Lakka TB hospital in Sierra Leone in 2019, what happened to him, and why. — creator comment
2023-05-16 · Did TB Cause World War I? — John: Citing a historian, John says all three suffered from tuberculosis and knew they would not live long, which made them willing to give their lives for what they saw as a great cause. — 00:01:57
2023-05-16 · Did TB Cause World War I? — John says TB had earlier been romanticized in Europe as a beautiful way to die, a disease of civilization and refinement affecting beautiful, intelligent and sensitive people. — 00:01:57
2023-05-16 · Did TB Cause World War I? — John says that after Robert Koch proved in 1882 that a bacterium causes TB, it came to be seen as an illness of contamination, filth and poverty, and people with it were hugely and unjustly stigmatized, a tradition he says would continue. — 00:02:26
2023-05-16 · Did TB Cause World War I? — John says all three teenagers from Belgrade survived the assassination, were imprisoned, and died of tuberculosis within a few years. — 00:04:23
2023-05-16 · Did TB Cause World War I? — John says that between 1914 and 1945 more people died of tuberculosis than died in both world wars combined. — 00:04:52
2023-05-16 · Did TB Cause World War I? — John sums up: war sucks, and tuberculosis also sucks. — 00:04:52
2023-05-19 · So, I've got cancer — Hank says Hodgkin's was first thought to be a form of tuberculosis when discovered in the early 1900s, joking to John that everything is tuberculosis. (playful) (doubtful: early 1900s) — 00:11:14
2023-06-13 · touched by a king — John's deep-dive topic is tuberculosis, which he calls the oldest, deadliest and, in his opinion, least understood infectious disease in human history. — 00:00:00
2023-06-13 · touched by a king — John: Answering a viewer in the comments, John says TB kills more people every year than malaria, typhoid, homicide and war combined. — creator comment
2023-06-13 · touched by a king — John's comment says malaria remains a huge, cheaply preventable and treatable problem, but TB is deadlier and probably always has been. (hedged) — creator comment
2023-06-13 · touched by a king — John recalls Hank pointing out that lymphoma was originally believed to be a type of tuberculosis, which makes sense given shared symptoms: night sweats, fevers, sometimes coughing. — 00:00:29
2023-06-13 · touched by a king — John says the other symptom TB and lymphoma share is swollen lymph nodes. — 00:00:29
2023-06-13 · touched by a king — John: When TB invades the lymphatic system it is called scrofula, and it can make lymph nodes swell so much that they rupture through the skin. — 00:01:14
2023-06-13 · touched by a king — John says people whose swollen lymph nodes turn out to be TB also have a significant problem, especially if the nodes rupture. — 00:01:43
2023-07-11 · Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Johnson & Johnson — John says tuberculosis is the world's deadliest infectious disease, killing about 30,000 people last week (week of 3 July 2023), although it is usually curable. — 00:00:29
2023-07-11 · Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Johnson & Johnson — John says eight classes of TB drugs were developed between the 1940s and 1960s, then none until the end of the century, because investment stopped once TB no longer troubled rich countries. — 00:00:58
2023-07-11 · Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Johnson & Johnson — John says 1.6 million people will die of tuberculosis, a curable disease, this year (2023). — 00:01:27
2023-07-11 · Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Johnson & Johnson — John recalls meeting two young women in Sierra Leone a couple of months ago who were dying of TB; after a bedaquiline cocktail they recovered and are now cured, home and in school. — 00:02:55
2023-07-14 · The Good News Video — Hank admits that during the last year he sometimes thought John was over-investing in tuberculosis, a feeling he no longer has: going deeper shows people working on real solutions. (playful) — 00:00:29
2023-07-14 · The Good News Video — Hank speaks of a world with less TB as fast as possible, and maybe someday a world with none. (hedged) — 00:03:45
2023-07-18 · Tuberculosis Fighters Have a Posse — John says five years ago, at 40, he thought himself fairly well informed but did not know tuberculosis was the world's deadliest infectious disease, which is part of why he is now obsessed with it. — 00:00:00
2023-07-18 · Tuberculosis Fighters Have a Posse — John says his tuberculosis obsession goes so far that even on vacation he is reading a book about Arthur Conan Doyle and his contributions to tuberculosis research. (playful) — 00:00:00
2023-07-18 · Tuberculosis Fighters Have a Posse — John states that tuberculosis is the world's deadliest infectious disease. — 00:00:00
2023-07-18 · Tuberculosis Fighters Have a Posse — John says that whenever he brings up tuberculosis socially, which is every time, people say they thought it was a problem of the past, as he once believed it a 19th-century problem. (playful) — 00:00:29
2023-07-18 · Tuberculosis Fighters Have a Posse — John recounts a global health official telling him tuberculosis lacks a global constituency: illnesses with one get far more attention, and the problems we pay attention to tend to be the ones we solve. — 00:00:58
2023-07-18 · Tuberculosis Fighters Have a Posse — John says tuberculosis does have a constituency: over 10 million people get sick every year, and many activists work hard to bring attention to the crisis. — 00:02:55
2023-07-18 · Tuberculosis Fighters Have a Posse — John says he still knew nothing about tuberculosis because he was not listening to those activists' voices and did not even know how to. — 00:02:55
2023-07-18 · Tuberculosis Fighters Have a Posse — John argues that what tuberculosis needed was for people in the rich world to pay attention, and feels that is beginning to happen, not mainly because of him, though he will not shut up about it. — 00:03:24
2023-07-18 · Tuberculosis Fighters Have a Posse — John says people are beginning to understand that the world's deadliest infectious disease in 2023 is curable, and that the cure is not just medicine. — 00:03:24
2023-07-18 · Tuberculosis Fighters Have a Posse — John says curing TB also means finding and quickly diagnosing cases, including drug resistance, giving household contacts one month of preventive treatment, and access to curative treatment for everyone with TB. — 00:03:53
2023-07-18 · Tuberculosis Fighters Have a Posse — John says people like him overlooked tuberculosis because it kills slowly rather than dramatically and is a much bigger problem in low- and middle-income countries than in rich ones. — 00:04:22
2023-07-18 · Tuberculosis Fighters Have a Posse — John says tuberculosis is ultimately caused by crowded living conditions, malnutrition and other symptoms of poverty, which he calls the world's leading cause of death. — 00:04:22
2023-07-18 · Tuberculosis Fighters Have a Posse — John says that for too long the fight against tuberculosis has lacked the global constituency it needs, but he hopes that is starting to change. (hedged) — 00:04:22
2023-07-18 · Tuberculosis Fighters Have a Posse — John wants people living with tuberculosis and the activists fighting it to have a posse: the world, especially the rich world, telling them they are not alone and will be stood and fought for. — 00:05:21
2023-08-08 · TAKE IT UP A NOTCH — John says he had a somewhat dramatic confrontation with one, possibly two, of the world's largest drug companies over a tuberculosis drug's price, if the second keeps price gouging the poorest countries. (playful) — 00:00:29
2023-08-08 · TAKE IT UP A NOTCH — John says Hank's experience is not typical: with HIV, cancer, tuberculosis or another highly stigmatized disease, the social response is part of what makes the illness so difficult. — 00:02:26
2023-08-15 · Henry — John says people often ask him why he is obsessed with tuberculosis, and this video is why. — 00:00:00
2023-08-15 · Henry — John: A doctor told John that Henry was a patient they were very concerned about: Henry was 16, not nine like John's son; tuberculosis had ravaged his body. — 00:00:29
2023-08-15 · Henry — John came home from that trip obsessed with tuberculosis and spent the next few years learning about it, often thinking of and praying for Henry but never daring to ask what happened to him. — 00:03:14
2023-08-15 · Henry — John says tuberculosis, though usually curable, still kills over 1.5 million people a year, more than malaria and HIV combined. — 00:03:14
2023-08-15 · Henry — John says all of that is still happening millions of times over to children around the world. — 00:06:16
2023-08-15 · Henry — John says this is why he is obsessed with tuberculosis: the fight is worth it because of Henry, because he is here. — 00:06:46
2023-08-22 · The Panera Phenomenon — John's current favorite tuberculosis fact comes from rereading the book Living in the Shadow of Death; he admits it can seem he only thinks about tuberculosis. — 00:00:58
2023-08-22 · The Panera Phenomenon — John: Citing the book, John says that in 1852, when Franklin Pierce was elected US president, his wife was sick with tuberculosis. — 00:00:58
2023-08-22 · The Panera Phenomenon — John says Pierce's secretary of state was mourning a son who had just died of tuberculosis, and his vice president was in Cuba trying to cure his own tuberculosis. — 00:01:10
2023-08-22 · The Panera Phenomenon — John says Franklin Pierce probably had tuberculosis too, but drank himself to death before it could kill him. (hedged) — 00:01:20
2023-08-22 · The Panera Phenomenon — John says this was not ancient history but two human lifetimes ago: the idea that anyone is insulated from tuberculosis is very recent. — 00:01:27
2023-09-05 · I Ain't Even Here, Sergeant. I'm in Cheyenne, Wyoming. — John reports the Stop TB Partnership has announced that in most high-tuberculosis countries generic competition will cut the price of bedaquiline by over 50%, which he calls amazing news. — 00:00:40
2023-09-05 · I Ain't Even Here, Sergeant. I'm in Cheyenne, Wyoming. — John says that until quite recently tuberculosis was, in Charles Dickens's words, the disease wealth never warded off: kings and the richest man of the 19th century died of it; then it suddenly became one wealth almost always wards off. — 00:00:58
2023-09-05 · I Ain't Even Here, Sergeant. I'm in Cheyenne, Wyoming. — John says tuberculosis was long seen as a disease of civilization, wealth, privilege and success, but the rich world now sees it as a disease of poverty and marginalization, which he finds weird. — 00:01:15
2023-09-05 · I Ain't Even Here, Sergeant. I'm in Cheyenne, Wyoming. — John argues this shows disease is not just a medical phenomenon but a social one: how we imagine diseases matters. — 00:01:32
2023-09-05 · I Ain't Even Here, Sergeant. I'm in Cheyenne, Wyoming. — John says his Cheyenne, Wyoming has been figuring out how tuberculosis's change happened and how to tell its story. — 00:01:40
2023-09-05 · I Ain't Even Here, Sergeant. I'm in Cheyenne, Wyoming. — John says that in the 21st century the deadliest infectious disease is curable, which is unprecedented: the deadliest diseases of the 20th, 19th and 18th centuries were not. — 00:01:45
2023-09-12 · Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Danaher and Cepheid — John says 1.6 million people will die of tuberculosis this year (2023), more than malaria and HIV combined, which infuriates him because TB is curable. — 00:00:00
2023-09-12 · Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Danaher and Cepheid — John says tuberculosis has killed over a billion people in the last 200 years, with little progress because testing and treatment remain out of reach for millions. — 00:00:20
2023-09-12 · Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Danaher and Cepheid — John says that of the 10 million people who will get sick with TB this year (2023), about 4 million will go undiagnosed, often dying before an accurate test. — 00:00:29
2023-09-12 · Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Danaher and Cepheid — John says most diagnosed TB cases are still found by someone looking at a sputum sample through a microscope, exactly as 130 years ago. — 00:00:44
2023-09-12 · Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Danaher and Cepheid — John apologizes for sounding angry but says he is angry: he has known many people who went undiagnosed for months or years, and some died for lack of a timely accurate test. — 00:04:27
2023-09-12 · Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Danaher and Cepheid — John says lowering the tests' price to $5 would likely save hundreds of thousands of lives over the next 10 years. (hedged) — 00:07:13
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Nandita Venkatesan: Nandita hopes TB treatment becomes a cakewalk: take the medicine and be cured, with no such horrifying experiences or existential questions. — 00:06:33
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — John says eight classes of TB drugs were developed between 1940 and 1965, then none between 1965 and 2013, which is why we are in this mess. — 00:10:16
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — John says the 40 years in which the global health community ignored TB were catastrophic, a catastrophe real people feel in their real lives. — 00:10:40
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Animesh Sinha: Dr. Sinha says TB has classically gone with poverty: incidence rises after wars and in poor places and falls as living conditions, nutrition and immunity improve, as in the US. — 00:21:03
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Nandita Venkatesan: Nandita says people fear TB as contagious without knowing that patients adhering to treatment become non-infectious within weeks or months and can date and live normally; such facts should be widely shared. — 00:46:48
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — John recalls a memoir by a woman who had TB as a child in mid-20th-century US sanatoriums until streptomycin saved her; going home, she had forgotten being touched with love. — 00:48:37
2023-09-15 · The Worst Disease in Human History — Hank says a couple of years ago he would probably have guessed malaria, then AIDS, as the deadliest infectious disease, and needed a hint to reach tuberculosis. (hedged) — 00:00:00
2023-09-15 · The Worst Disease in Human History — The description adds that TB may replicate slowly for evolutionary advantage too: possibly, having lived with humans so long, it evolved to linger rather than kill quickly. (hedged) — video description
2023-09-15 · The Worst Disease in Human History — Hank says tuberculosis has been the deadliest infectious disease for like 99% of the last 10,000 years, overtaken only every once in a while by the Spanish flu, the Black Death or, very briefly, COVID. — 00:00:12
2023-09-15 · The Worst Disease in Human History — Hank says tuberculosis has now taken back its title as deadliest infectious disease and is a strong contender for the oldest infectious disease. — 00:00:29
2023-09-15 · The Worst Disease in Human History — Hank says he would love to read a John Green book about tuberculosis; John is definitely the expert on it. — 00:00:35
2023-09-15 · The Worst Disease in Human History — Hank says he once thought tuberculosis, like pneumonia, described symptoms rather than a specific disease, but it is caused by a specific bacterium. — 00:00:44
2023-09-15 · The Worst Disease in Human History — Hank says the tuberculosis bacterium's weirdly thick cell wall, made largely of waxy fats, is its secret weapon, making TB harder to fight in many different ways. — 00:00:58
2023-09-15 · The Worst Disease in Human History — Hank says the complicated wall is hard to manufacture, so TB replicates much more slowly than most bacteria. — 00:02:36
2023-09-15 · The Worst Disease in Human History — Hank says many antibiotics target fast-replicating cells, so they are less good at attacking slow-replicating tuberculosis. — 00:02:55
2023-09-15 · The Worst Disease in Human History — Hank says that to treat TB one must find out whether a person has it, what kind and which antibiotics it resists, by growing bacteria from their spit in a petri dish. — 00:03:02
2023-09-15 · The Worst Disease in Human History — Hank says a well-fed E. coli colony doubles every 20 minutes, while for tuberculosis doubling takes about a day. — 00:03:24
2023-09-15 · The Worst Disease in Human History — Hank says diagnosing TB and testing its resistance means culturing it many times against different antibiotics, which takes much labor, time, petri dishes and space. — 00:03:31
2023-09-15 · The Worst Disease in Human History — Hank says that would be fine if a thousand people a year got tuberculosis, but about 10 million people a year get it. — 00:03:53
2023-09-15 · The Worst Disease in Human History — Hank says because TB is the deadliest infectious disease, hits poor communities, and kills millions a year while disabling more, the tests' cost must be as low as possible, especially for multidrug-resistant TB. — 00:04:22
2023-09-15 · The Worst Disease in Human History — Hank says campaigners and the companies are not enemies but allies: the enemy is tuberculosis. — 00:05:21
2023-09-19 · So, um.... GOOD NEWS?!?!?! — John calls the deal amazing news: important progress for people living with and fighting TB, and a big win for the community and its long-time partners. — 00:00:58
2023-09-19 · So, um.... GOOD NEWS?!?!?! — announcement: John says that this week (week of 18 September 2023) he will be in New York to continue conversations about tuberculosis at the United Nations. — 00:04:25
2023-09-19 · So, um.... GOOD NEWS?!?!?! — John marvels that 16 and a half years later Nerdfighteria's organizational and creative talents were harnessed together to expand TB treatment and diagnostics to millions. — 00:05:23
2023-09-25 · PIZZAMAS IS HERE!!! — announcement: The description says all Pizzamas proceeds go to support PIH's work, with an emphasis on tuberculosis treatment and diagnosis. — video description
2023-09-25 · PIZZAMAS IS HERE!!! — John says he doesn't know how to change the vibe from the community lowering the price of life-saving tuberculosis tests to Pizzamas. — 00:00:07
2023-09-25 · PIZZAMAS IS HERE!!! — John says all Pizzamas proceeds go to charity every year; this year (2023) the money is focused on tuberculosis, getting now-cheaper diagnostics and treatments to more people. — 00:00:34
2023-09-27 · John Goes ... to the UNITED NATIONS? — John and Sarah visited a picnic for TB survivors and activists and attended pre-meeting meetings, which he loved because he loves hating tuberculosis so much. — 00:00:00
2023-09-27 · John Goes ... to the UNITED NATIONS? — John says the declaration sets big targets for reducing TB in the next few years which, if honored, will save millions of lives. — 00:01:36
2023-09-27 · John Goes ... to the UNITED NATIONS? — John says Shreya's death was caused not just by tuberculosis but by government bureaucracy and international indifference to TB. — 00:02:34
2023-09-27 · John Goes ... to the UNITED NATIONS? — John tells the UN that TB today is in the same situation: the cure is where the disease is not, and the disease is where the cure is not. — 00:03:33
2023-09-27 · John Goes ... to the UNITED NATIONS? — John says TB has been curable for 75 years yet continues to kill 1.6 million people. — 00:03:33
2023-09-27 · John Goes ... to the UNITED NATIONS? — John says that in the 19th century TB deaths could be blamed on the bacterium, but since we know how to kill it, death from TB today is caused by human-built systems and human choice. — 00:03:33
2023-09-27 · John Goes ... to the UNITED NATIONS? — John says we have chosen today's world, in which 1.6 million people die of tuberculosis, and we can choose a better one. — 00:04:02
2023-09-27 · John Goes ... to the UNITED NATIONS? — John believes that, working together over the next decade, we will choose a world where no one dies of tuberculosis. — 00:04:31
2023-09-28 · What the Heck is the UN? — Hank finds it amazing that John was on the UN stage and said what needed saying: the continued burden of tuberculosis is a choice we are making. — 00:06:44
2023-09-28 · What the Heck is the UN? — Hank says we can make different choices because we already have, showing charts of world deaths by age since 1950, polio burden since 1980 and TB death rates since 1990. — 00:07:13
2023-09-28 · What the Heck is the UN? — Hank likes the TB chart less than the others, but says it shows we are still in the middle of the story and don't have to live with the world as it is. — 00:07:13
2023-09-29 · Like Apocalyptic Horsemen — John says his 2007 self had no idea what it was like to have kids, to live in one town for 17 years, or to be part of an online community that convinced a multinational not to profit from TB tests in poor countries. — 00:03:33
2023-09-30 · An Incredible Update — John says tens of millions of dollars will be saved by the Global Fund and low- and middle-income countries, money that can treat more people for tuberculosis. — 00:02:36
2023-09-30 · An Incredible Update — John calls the news a wondrous Pizzamas gift from J&J with perfect timing, since this year (2023) all Pizzamas profits support better tuberculosis care in the developing world. — 00:02:55
2023-10-05 · America's Second Favorite Fourth Tier English Soccer Team — John says lessons from Wimbledon, its local anti-poverty action group and the AFC Wimbledon Foundation, went into many community projects, including pushing down TB diagnostic and treatment prices. — 00:04:05
2023-10-17 · My Next Book — In a comment John says capitalism promotes much inequity, but TB history shows centrally planned and mercantilist economies also promoted inequity that led to disease among the poor. — creator comment
2023-10-17 · My Next Book — John: In the last year Nerdfighteria has helped make hundreds of millions of dollars of impact in the cost of TB tests and treatment. — 00:01:27
2023-10-17 · My Next Book — John: Over the last couple of years John has mostly been writing, somewhat obsessively, about tuberculosis, which is exactly what he wants to write about. — 00:02:47
2023-10-17 · My Next Book — John: For John, writing about tuberculosis is a way to understand historical and contemporary inequities: the toll of a disease the rich world ignores resulted from historical forces and TB's own quirks. — 00:02:47
2023-10-17 · My Next Book — John: 1.6 million people die every year of tuberculosis, a disease most people in the rich world never worry or think about. — 00:02:47
2023-10-24 · A Tale of Two Cancers — John says Mondeh was at first misdiagnosed with tuberculosis, as often happens, because his clinics lacked the fast, accurate GeneXpert tests and diagnosed TB by symptoms; TB treatment did not work. — 00:01:17
2023-11-03 · We Need to talk about Sarapocial Relationships — Hank says some shared things can be controlled: the average nerdfighter knows much more about tuberculosis, pelicans and AFC Wimbledon than the average human. — 00:02:58
2023-11-03 · We Need to talk about Sarapocial Relationships — Hank: By capable Hank means the community can act for itself and the world, from TB access to Crash Course, SciShow and the clubs funding maternal health in Sierra Leone; membership should feel valuable. — 00:03:57
2023-11-07 · NaFaDoYBIMSCoM — recommendation: The description points TB fighters to a New York Times piece that references the brothers' work and progress against tuberculosis, and how far there is to go. — video description
2023-11-07 · NaFaDoYBIMSCoM — John says that when he started writing about tuberculosis a few years ago he expected a small, straightforward project with no risk of a movie adaptation; it has not been small, because tuberculosis is not a simple concept. (playful) — 00:00:29
2023-11-07 · NaFaDoYBIMSCoM — John says what he is writing is not only about tuberculosis but about how tuberculosis is a form and expression of injustice. — 00:00:29
2023-11-07 · NaFaDoYBIMSCoM — John: Three years later John has still not finished the tuberculosis writing. — 00:00:58
2023-11-21 · Minus Its Charms — John says the community helped encourage Danaher to lower the price of its tuberculosis tests, which will let 5 million more people be tested for TB every year. — 00:00:16
2023-11-28 · John's (Mostly Book) Holiday Gift Recommendations — John admits that yes, he has a favorite tuberculosis book of the year. (playful) — 00:00:29
2023-11-28 · John's (Mostly Book) Holiday Gift Recommendations — recommendation: John recommends Maria Smilios's The Black Angels for history lovers: the story of Black nurses on Staten Island, many from the American South, who helped cure tuberculosis; untold before, phenomenally written. — 00:00:58
2023-11-28 · John's (Mostly Book) Holiday Gift Recommendations — recommendation: John: As examples of kids' books worth reading, John points to Walter Dean Myers' book about the Haitian Revolution and a kids' book about tuberculosis. — 00:01:57
2023-12-05 · MASSIVE Tuberculosis News — John thinks the study matters not only for TB treatment but for how to speed up innovation in treating other diseases, from malaria to cancer. — 00:00:00
2023-12-05 · MASSIVE Tuberculosis News — John explains that curing tuberculosis requires a cocktail of antibiotics because its bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is notoriously hard to kill. — 00:00:00
2023-12-05 · MASSIVE Tuberculosis News — John says 1.6 million people will die of TB this year (2023). — 00:03:53
2023-12-05 · MASSIVE Tuberculosis News — John says new drugs and drug classes are needed, but those dying this year (2023) cannot wait for them; they need drugs that exist now, and the endTB trial gives them hope. — 00:03:53
2023-12-05 · MASSIVE Tuberculosis News — John says such trials need better funding: public money and private donations have funded many in cancer but more is needed, and neglected diseases like TB need massive investment. — 00:04:22
2023-12-12 · POTATO! — John: Addressing Potato, John says dogs can get tuberculosis, but it is quite rare. (playful) — 00:02:32
2023-12-12 · POTATO! — John says tuberculosis is the world's deadliest infectious disease among humans, and that it is curable. — 00:02:32
2023-12-12 · POTATO! — John says we don't have to accept the world that we are choosing right now. — 00:02:32
2023-12-19 · End of a Rough Year — John says the test cartridges are amazing: within a couple of hours caregivers know which antibiotics a person's TB will respond to, so it can usually be cured within six to nine months. — 00:00:29
2023-12-19 · End of a Rough Year — John says that without the identification of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis in 1882 and ever better strategies to kill it, TB would not be curable today. — 00:01:40
2023-12-19 · End of a Rough Year — John says he looks for hope in collaboration and community because there people together can battle what Kurt Vonnegut called the terrible disease of loneliness, as well as TB and other injustice. — 00:02:12
2023-12-19 · End of a Rough Year — John says that as TB fighters their only priority is lowering the global burden of tuberculosis, best achieved through cheaper and more abundant testing, though Danaher's choice may make sense from its perspective. — 00:03:00
2023-12-19 · End of a Rough Year — John says Danaher is not the enemy, tuberculosis is; to end TB we need each other, and together we can drive costs down further and make testing more affordable. — 00:03:24

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2024

2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John: The merch money also supports increasing access to tuberculosis care. — 00:01:52
2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John: How we spend our money is not the only thing that matters; how we spend time and attention matters too, and Nerdfighteria's TB advocacy made possible changes that could never have been bought or sold. — 00:04:52
2024-02-06 · The Truth of How Books Become Movies — John: With Hollywood not chasing The Anthropocene Reviewed or his forthcoming tuberculosis book, John says this may be his last time seeing hundreds of people make something wonderful together. (hedged) — 00:04:52
2024-02-16 · How Much Does it Cost to be a Nerdfighter — Hank says the community's biggest economic impact is probably pushing Danaher to lower the cost of its TB test, which took not money but time and attention. (hedged) — 00:02:55
2024-02-16 · How Much Does it Cost to be a Nerdfighter — announcement: Hank: For the first time in a long time, P4A money will not go to the Maternal Center of Excellence, now pretty well supported, but to the global fight against tuberculosis. — 00:05:05
2024-02-16 · How Much Does it Cost to be a Nerdfighter — Hank says tuberculosis is the deadliest infectious disease in the world. — 00:05:05
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says later this week (week of 11 March 2024) he will be on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. to discuss tuberculosis with members of Congress, senators and their aides. — 00:00:00
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — announcement: John says there will be a major announcement on Thursday about his family's efforts to fight tuberculosis. — 00:00:00
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says tuberculosis remains the world's deadliest infectious disease, even though we know how to end it. — 00:00:00
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says TB is generally curable on an individual level with a four-to-six-month regimen of four different antibiotics. — 00:00:00
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — In a comment, John says the only current TB vaccine is 102 years old and only prevents severe illness and death in young children; much better vaccines are needed. — creator comment
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John's great-uncle Stokes died of tuberculosis in 1930, when TB was still one of the leading causes of death in the United States. — 00:00:29
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says that in 1900 the US had almost as many hospital beds for TB patients as for all other health problems combined. — 00:00:29
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says TB is still a problem in the United States, but its death rate there has fallen by over 99%. — 00:00:29
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says we know how to end TB as a society because we have done it before. — 00:00:29
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — recommendation: John recommends a TED talk, linked below, in which Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee argues that the key to ending TB boils down to the acronym STP. — 00:00:58
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John: Search, the first step: John says we need to find people with TB and diagnose them correctly. — 00:00:58
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John cites the WHO estimate that of the 10 million people who will get sick with TB this year (2024), about 4 million will never be diagnosed. — 00:00:58
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says experts estimate that for every year a person lives with active untreated TB, the infection spreads to between 5 and 15 more people. — 00:01:27
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says people with TB go undiagnosed because they simply lack access to accurate screening and testing. — 00:01:27
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says that from the 1950s the US built x-ray vans and sent them across the country offering everyone free chest x-rays to identify TB cases, and it worked. — 00:01:27
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says today there are accurate but still frustratingly expensive tests like GeneXpert that can tell within a couple of hours whether someone has TB. — 00:01:56
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says funds and systems are needed to deploy those technologies where most needed, actively screening for TB to find the 4 million missed cases. — 00:01:56
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John: Treat, the second step: John says everyone diagnosed with TB should be able to receive curative treatment appropriate to their particular infection. — 00:01:56
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says most treated people stop being infectious within a week of their first antibiotics, so treatment both saves lives and stops chains of infection. — 00:02:26
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says TB treatment needs many pills over many months, but the disease can be cured: with available treatment and support, people will almost always be cured. — 00:02:26
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John: Prevent, the final step: John says close contacts of anyone diagnosed with TB should be offered preventive therapy. — 00:02:52
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says the most common preventive therapy is pills once a week for 12 weeks, after which you never get active tuberculosis. — 00:02:52
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says the US has used preventive therapy for over 60 years, a key reason TB rates have plummeted there. — 00:02:52
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says it is long past time to stop arguing that preventive therapy is too expensive or complicated for impoverished countries. — 00:02:52
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says we can't afford not to implement comprehensive STP strategies in high-burden communities: there is no excuse for over a million people a year dying of a curable disease. — 00:03:21
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says every dollar invested in TB care yields $43 in economic benefit, as more people can work and fewer are sick, dying or tending to the sick. — 00:03:21
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says we have known how to end TB since the 1950s; the challenge has always been resource allocation. — 00:03:50
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says that to really address TB the whole health system must be strengthened so it can search for cases, treat those it finds and prevent future ones. — 00:03:50
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John calls this the biggest bet of his life: a bet that we don't have to accept a world where so many people die of a disease no one should die of. — 00:04:20
2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — John says last week (week of 11 March 2024) he was in Washington, D.C. to ask senators and congresspeople to prioritize tuberculosis, the world's deadliest infectious disease. — 00:00:00
2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — announcement: John says he was also in Washington to announce his family's commitment to support comprehensive tuberculosis care. — 00:00:00
2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — John calls it in some ways the biggest bet of his life: a bet that we don't have to live in a world where over a million people a year die of a curable, preventable disease. — 00:00:00
2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — John says over a million people die every year of tuberculosis, a curable and preventable disease. — 00:00:00
2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — announcement: The description says the Crash Course Lecture on the history and present of tuberculosis premieres on Monday. — video description
2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — John says the US and many other countries drove down TB rates by over 99% in the 1950s and 60s by searching for cases, curing everyone with TB and giving close contacts preventive therapy. — 00:00:29
2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — John says comprehensive care has long been seen as too expensive or complicated for poor countries, an insane situation where a TB cure exists but doesn't reach the places it is needed. — 00:00:58
2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — John says the work is hard: TB is curable, but in practice it means planning van-based x-ray machines, paying community health workers to screen, and rural versus urban screening. — 00:00:58
2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — announcement: John reports that at a Thursday briefing USAID announced a program funding comprehensive TB care in regions of Ethiopia and the Philippines, meant as a blueprint and beacon for ending TB worldwide. — 00:01:27
2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — John says over the next four years the project can have over $80 million for comprehensive TB care, starting in one region of the Philippines, which has the world's fourth-highest TB prevalence. — 00:01:56
2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — John says his family puts in only about four percent of the money, which he hopes is an important four percent, and it gives them a seat at the table to see the challenges and successes up close. (hedged) — 00:01:56
2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — John believes the only way to end TB is with public-private partnerships like this one; this one is relatively small and much bigger ones are needed. — 00:01:56
2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — John says government buy-in is essential because very few individuals have enough money to end TB, and those who do aren't interested right now (correcting himself from 'no individual'). — 00:02:26
2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — John says citizens asking their government to prioritize TB is a big reason they reached this momentous occasion. — 00:03:53
2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — John says that on maternal mortality in Sierra Leone or the global TB crisis, he is astonished by what Nerdfighteria has done by orienting attention and resources in the same direction, and is grateful. — 00:04:23
2024-03-26 · I Own Danaher — announcement: John has an essay about tuberculosis in the Washington Post. — 00:00:00
2024-03-26 · I Own Danaher — announcement: John: There is a new Crash Course lecture about the history of tuberculosis. — 00:00:00
2024-03-26 · I Own Danaher — John explains that Cepheid, owned by the conglomerate Danaher, makes GeneXpert tests, the best available TB tests; similar cartridges test for HIV, hepatitis or extensively drug-resistant TB. — 00:00:00
2024-03-26 · I Own Danaher — John hopes the cost gets high enough that Danaher lowers prices not just for the standard TB test but for all its tests in low- and middle-income countries. (hedged) — 00:04:23
2024-03-29 · The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo — Hank says elephants can get the same tuberculosis people get, and the disease passes from people to elephants and from elephants to people. — 00:00:29
2024-03-29 · The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo — announcement: Hank notes John's new tuberculosis video on the Crash Course channel, a new format giving someone a chance to lecture, with John as the guinea pig. — 00:04:44
2024-04-16 · I Already Got Paid — announcement: In a channel comment, John says his next work is a nonfiction book about 19th-century human responses to tuberculosis, unlikely Hollywood material. — creator comment
2024-04-16 · I Already Got Paid — John says he has cool things to do anyway: he gets to write books and professionally hate tuberculosis. (playful) — 00:02:15
2024-05-07 · A Secret about Art — John says Nerdfighteria is the best, whether fighting tuberculosis or supporting the film's turtles that represent doubt and consciousness. (playful) — 00:00:57
2024-05-20 · Hang on tight, spider monkey, it's the P4A 2024 MEME REVIEW!! — Hank calls a meme great that shows Nerdfighteria's email-writing campaign and TB facts, with John and Danaher saying that's enough. — 00:08:22
2024-05-20 · Hang on tight, spider monkey, it's the P4A 2024 MEME REVIEW!! — Hank tries to recall Jarrod's lore: dying of TB, he was saved by vampire possums who turned him into a vampire; it isn't clear in his head. (playful, unsure) — 00:14:29
2024-05-28 · A Midlife Crisis — John says tuberculosis has unnecessarily killed over a hundred thousand people this month (May 2024). — 00:01:56
2024-05-28 · A Midlife Crisis — John says he is very engaged, publicly and privately, in lowering barriers to TB treatment and diagnostics and in increasing awareness of and investment in fighting tuberculosis. — 00:02:26
2024-05-28 · A Midlife Crisis — announcement: John says he is writing a book about the history and presence of tuberculosis, which will come out next year (2025). — 00:02:26
2024-05-28 · A Midlife Crisis — John says his other work feels extremely urgent because it involves many people's livelihoods and, with tuberculosis and maternal and infant mortality, many people's lives. — 00:02:55
2024-06-11 · BEEF DAYS — In a comment, John says beef probably makes TB less likely, but only for malnourished people, since adequate protein and fat help the immune system keep TB in check. (hedged) — creator comment
2024-06-18 · The Tea — announcement: John: PIH told them it is starting a new strategy to prove that comprehensive TB care (finding, treating, preventing) can drive down the disease and strengthen health systems, and asked for their help. — 00:02:55
2024-06-18 · The Tea — John says tuberculosis is the world's deadliest infectious disease and kills over 100,000 people every month. — 00:02:55
2024-06-18 · The Tea — John says PIH, with a long history of expanding TB care, will prove that just as we need not live in a world where in some communities 1 in 17 women die in pregnancy or childbirth, we need not live in a world with TB. — 00:03:24
2024-06-18 · The Tea — John: PIH will start in Lesotho, where it has worked for almost 20 years and which has the world's highest TB incidence. — 00:03:24
2024-06-18 · The Tea — announcement: John: Good Store's socks and soap stay oriented around maternal mortality, while coffee and now tea relaunch as a new brand, Keats & Co., to fight tuberculosis. — 00:03:53
2024-06-18 · The Tea — John: When John Keats died of TB in 1821 nothing could stop it, but in the 200 years since around a billion people have died of TB, and now we have the tools. — 00:04:52
2024-06-18 · The Tea — John finds it infuriating that the world's deadliest infectious disease still kills over a million people a year though curable. — 00:05:21
2024-06-18 · The Tea — John has seen the community's power in reducing maternal mortality in Sierra Leone and driving down TB drug and test prices: never underestimate Nerdfighteria. — 00:05:45
2024-06-18 · The Tea — John thinks PIH is right that someone must prove comprehensive TB care can work even in impoverished communities where TB is rampant. — 00:06:14
2024-06-25 · taking a break — John must finish his book so it can come out next year (2025), and that alone feels like too much work for his depressed brain. — 00:00:58
2024-08-06 · What Helped Through Depression — John's work on TB has been a great source of solace and connection this past month. — 00:01:56
2024-08-07 · Dear Hank and John Livestream! — John: Answering a patron, John says he still reads mostly about tuberculosis because he is in the last edit of his book. — 00:28:39
2024-08-07 · Dear Hank and John Livestream! — recommendation: John recommends John le Carré's The Constant Gardener, a spy novel about tuberculosis: very good. — 00:28:39
2024-08-13 · The Time a Spy Visited Me Because of P*tin. — John's exception: he wants to be a threat to certain pharmaceutical companies that limit access to tuberculosis diagnostics and medications. — 00:04:15
2024-08-20 · Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! — John woke up over the Irish Sea, started reading a great book about tuberculosis called Breathless, and landed in London, taking a cab when his train was cancelled. — 00:00:00
2024-08-27 · How The Internet Is Rigged — John notes the counterargument: some say this isn't stealing, since language models ingest web information as people do, just as he might turn reading about tuberculosis into an original book. — 00:00:10
2024-09-03 · Which is Correct? — or – ? — John: In an example sentence from his tuberculosis book, John says tuberculosis, curable for nearly a century, still kills over 1.3 million people per year. — 00:00:29
2024-09-10 · The world will change. — John relays a story first heard from Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee: in 1950, the year their dad was born, tuberculosis was the leading cause of death in Alaska. — 00:00:00
2024-09-10 · The world will change. — John: Up to 35% of Native Alaskans could expect to die of TB, John says, a rate higher than at the peak of Europe's 18th-century epidemic. — 00:00:00
2024-09-10 · The world will change. — John recalls a 1941 history of TB saying the 'Eldorado of cure' seemed far off, when a cure was only about nine years away: we can't see the future coming. — 00:00:29
2024-09-10 · The world will change. — John: Drugs then proved effective against TB and, prescribed together, could cure it, though the antibiotic cocktail took 18 to 24 months. — 00:00:58
2024-09-10 · The world will change. — John: With tools to cure and prevent TB in hand, John notes that tools you don't use are not tools. — 00:00:58
2024-09-10 · The world will change. — John: In Bethel, Alaska, John says, this strategy cut tuberculosis incidence by 69% in one year. — 00:01:27
2024-09-10 · The world will change. — John: Statewide, TB among Native Alaskans fell by over 75% between 1952 and 1960, and Alaska's TB rate today is 99% lower than in 1950. — 00:01:56
2024-09-10 · The world will change. — John: Lesotho, a southern African nation of 2.2 million people, today has the highest rate of tuberculosis in the world. — 00:01:56
2024-09-10 · The world will change. — John lists why TB flourishes in impoverished Lesotho: high malnutrition, HIV comorbidity, and lung damage from dust in its important mining industry. — 00:02:26
2024-09-10 · The world will change. — John: Partners In Health is working with Lesotho's government on a version of what happened in Alaska decades ago: search, treat, prevent. — 00:02:26
2024-09-10 · The world will change. — John: Experts John spoke to believe the project is critical to ending TB, providing a blueprint that even impoverished communities with fragile health systems can dramatically cut TB. — 00:02:55
2024-09-10 · The world will change. — announcement: John: All profits from Keats & Co. will support comprehensive tuberculosis care in Lesotho and beyond. — 00:03:53
2024-09-10 · The world will change. — John: The company is named after poet John Keats, who died of TB in 1821 aged just 25 and often referenced TB, famously writing in Ode to a Nightingale that youth grows pale and spectre-thin and dies. — 00:04:23
2024-09-10 · The world will change. — John: Nothing could be done for Keats or the millions who died of consumption in 1821, but that is no longer the case. — 00:04:23
2024-09-10 · The world will change. — John: Most TB cases no longer need 18 to 24 months of treatment but can be cured within four or six months. — 00:04:52
2024-09-10 · The world will change. — John thinks ending tuberculosis deaths would be the greatest achievement in human history, far harder and more impactful than ending smallpox. — 00:04:52
2024-09-10 · The world will change. — John: Ending TB deaths seems a distant dream, but it need not be: only will, attention and funding stand between us and a world without TB death. — 00:05:21
2024-09-27 · Is It 2010? IT'S A PARTS VIDEO — John says the End TB Now Act passed the US Senate unanimously; it would require US government-funded TB projects to implement comprehensive search, treat and prevent care. — 00:00:38
2024-09-27 · Is It 2010? IT'S A PARTS VIDEO — announcement: John says that within the next week to 10 days he will make a large-ish tuberculosis announcement of his own, which will explain why he is signing 100,000 sheets of paper. — 00:01:24
2024-09-27 · Is It 2010? IT'S A PARTS VIDEO — John says it has been almost exactly a year (September 2023) since Nerdfighteria helped convince Danaher to lower its TB test prices, one of the community's most amazing accomplishments. — 00:03:05
2024-09-27 · Is It 2010? IT'S A PARTS VIDEO — John calls himself a big fan of the Global Fund, founded to fight TB, HIV and malaria, which has saved so many lives. — 00:04:05
2024-09-27 · Is It 2010? IT'S A PARTS VIDEO — John says tuberculosis causes more deaths than either HIV or malaria but receives only 18.5% of the Global Fund's money. — 00:04:24
2024-09-27 · Is It 2010? IT'S A PARTS VIDEO — John says experts, including ones hired by the Global Fund, agree a greater share should go to tuberculosis and the overall pie must get much bigger. — 00:04:30
2024-10-01 · On Fame and Chappell Roan — John says he can use fame to write a book about tuberculosis, though no Saturday Night Live sketch will result, because it can help people and his deepest self wants to. — 00:04:15
2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John says five years ago he didn't know tuberculosis was still a thing; he thought of it as a disease of 19th-century Romantic poets, not a present-tense phenomenon. — 00:00:22
2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John says in 2019 he visited a tuberculosis hospital in Sierra Leone, met a boy who shared his son's name, and came home obsessed with tuberculosis. — 00:00:33
2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John says TB remains the world's deadliest infectious disease, a distinction it has held for most of human history. — 00:00:45
2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John says tuberculosis has been curable since the 1950s, yet over a million people die every year of a disease we know how to prevent and cure, which he calls insane. — 00:00:58
2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — announcement: John says the book is a science story of how TB came to be understood and cured, and a human story of why the cure has been so badly distributed, centred on one boy surviving drug-resistant TB. — 00:01:21
2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John says he began writing about TB because writing is how he thinks and he wanted to remember what survivors and experts taught him; eventually he set aside the novel he'd been working on. — 00:01:40
2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John says TB shaped our geography, giving us towns like Colorado Springs and Asheville, North Carolina, and profoundly shaped our history. — 00:02:05
2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John says we in turn have shaped TB, because the disease follows the trails of injustice that we blazed for it. — 00:02:15
2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John says between a quarter and a third of all living humans have been infected with tuberculosis. — 00:03:52
2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John says it is a short book but hopes it can matter in readers' lives and accelerate the movement to make tuberculosis history. (hedged) — 00:04:06
2024-10-25 · I Don't Want them to Get Away With It… — Hank says rapid antigen tests don't work for TB: there are often few bacteria in the body, TB hides well, and its big, oily, waxy cell wall is hard to bind to. — 00:01:05
2024-10-25 · I Don't Want them to Get Away With It… — Hank says TB is still often diagnosed today by culturing the bacteria, which is slow, labor-intensive, expensive and not very informative. — 00:01:27
2024-10-25 · I Don't Want them to Get Away With It… — Hank says he recently learned lymphoma rates are very low in the poorest countries because people assume they have TB; with no test, the cancer goes unrecognized and they die. — 00:03:12
2024-10-25 · I Don't Want them to Get Away With It… — Hank says Danaher pledged to provide standard TB cartridges (not drug-resistance ones) at cost to the Global Fund, cutting the price from $10 to $7.97 and allowing millions more tests. — 00:03:35
2024-10-25 · I Don't Want them to Get Away With It… — recommendation: Hank says he was lucky to read John's book Everything Is Tuberculosis early; it changed how he sees all illness, with fascinating histories and stories of present-day tragedies. — 00:04:05
2024-10-29 · If Hank and John Were God for 15 Minutes — John: As God, John would first eliminate tuberculosis and all serious infectious diseases, maybe leaving a little of the common cold so people remember what being sick was like. (hypothetical) — 00:00:25
2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — John says all money Good Store makes goes either to stronger maternal and infant care in Sierra Leone or to better tuberculosis care in Lesotho. — 00:02:27
2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — John says Lesotho is currently the epicenter of the world's TB crisis. — 00:02:27
2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — John: Answering a viewer who asks them to punch tuberculosis in the face, John says that if there were a lot of tuberculosis in the US, it would be dealt with. — 00:09:35
2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — announcement: John shows the new Keats & Co. coffee design: formerly the Awesome Coffee Club, renamed because its money supports TB care; its dark roast is lighter than Starbucks's. — 00:29:11
2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — John says Good Store has donated over $8 million to support stronger maternal health and tuberculosis care. — 00:36:58
2024-11-01 · Working Through a Crisis with My Brother — John says he hopes he can make people care about tuberculosis; Hank adds that that is the goal. (hedged) — 00:00:58
2024-11-01 · Working Through a Crisis with My Brother — John says tuberculosis has been the great gift of his life for the last four years, giving him something to think about at night instead of his worries and fears. — 00:07:18
2024-11-01 · Working Through a Crisis with My Brother — John says he is grateful to everybody who followed him on that journey and agreed it matters; he doesn't think his cause is the most important one, but it is important. — 00:07:47
2024-11-05 · Why Do I Still Make YouTube Videos? — John goes on mostly from obligation to and love of Nerdfighteria: he enjoys less making videos than what they make, Nerdfighteria, from TB activism to Pizzamas memes to marriages. — 00:04:52
2024-11-08 · These Maps are Lying (if you let them) — Hank says 100% of the profit goes to fight tuberculosis, a fight that looks like it will need all the help it can get, and praises John's work on it. — 00:06:27
2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — John: Because the soap and socks now give the maternal health care project enough, the brothers decided Keats & Co. coffee and tea would fund a new project fighting tuberculosis in Lesotho. — 00:03:09
2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — John says Lesotho is the epicenter of the global TB crisis, with the highest TB incidence in the world. — 00:03:22
2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — John believes the Lesotho tuberculosis project can make a huge difference there and globally, by proving that investing in tuberculosis drives rates down dramatically and quickly. — 00:03:26
2024-11-26 · Good News — John: Since most people in the US survive Hodgkin lymphoma, its mortality rate is only about 0.28 per 100,000, close to the US tuberculosis death rate of about 0.22 per 100,000, or several hundred deaths a year. — 00:00:34
2024-11-26 · Good News — John: In Lesotho the tuberculosis mortality rate is around 213 per 100,000 people, so a person is a thousand times likelier to die of tuberculosis there than in the United States. — 00:00:57
2024-12-10 · On Writing — John says Everything Is Tuberculosis is written for right now, not forever; he hopes the title will someday be irrelevant, with people saying everything was tuberculosis. — 00:02:14
2024-12-10 · On Writing — John says the book has little romance, except the romanticization of tuberculosis in 19th-century northern Europe. (playful) — 00:02:28
2024-12-10 · On Writing — John says tuberculosis speaks to his recurring theme of how we imagine and misimagine each other: we see our own lives as complex and multitudinous but imagine others' lives simplistically. — 00:03:08
2024-12-10 · On Writing — John says with tuberculosis this misimagining has led both to romanticization of the illness and to its intense stigmatization. — 00:03:19
2024-12-10 · On Writing — John: Like most of his books, John says, it stars a smart teenager who loves poetry: Henry Reider, a young man who lived with tuberculosis for most of his childhood. (playful) — 00:03:23
2024-12-31 · I Just Can't Do It Anymore — John calls Everything Is Tuberculosis the culmination of three years of his obsession with tuberculosis, its ongoing prevalence, and what that says about the world. — 00:03:53

2025

2025-01-07 · The Format but it hurts to stand up — John says that when he was a kid about 1.8 million people died of tuberculosis each year; now it is around 1.25 million. — 00:01:32
2025-01-07 · The Format but it hurts to stand up — John argues we must hold two equally true ideas at once: the progress against TB is real and worth celebrating, and it is not acceptable. — 00:01:40
2025-01-07 · The Format but it hurts to stand up — John says that at the current rate of decline, 33% over 40 years, it will take over a century to get TB deaths much below 500,000 a year, which is absurd for a curable, preventable disease. — 00:01:47
2025-01-07 · The Format but it hurts to stand up — John's first professional intention for the year is to support Everything Is Tuberculosis and his TB work without losing it; he has over 100 days of travel ahead. — 00:03:08
2025-01-10 · SECRET PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT! — Hank: Kirkus, read by Hank, says that after John met a sick boy, Henry, in Sierra Leone in 2019, he set out to learn everything about TB and concluded it persists through racism, greed and public-health economics. — 00:03:58
2025-01-10 · SECRET PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT! — Hank: Kirkus, read by Hank, says the book tells Henry's story bit by bit alongside chapters on TB's history, and explores treatment costs and pharmaceutical industry practices. — 00:04:28
2025-01-28 · This Is Not Normal — John says many things had to go right for that drop: insulin and antibiotics, safer surgery, and lower rates of absolute poverty, malnutrition and tuberculosis. — 00:01:27
2025-01-28 · This Is Not Normal — John says tuberculosis still kills over 1.25 million people each year though curable and preventable, which he calls absolutely unconscionable. — 00:03:53
2025-01-28 · This Is Not Normal — John says 2.6 million people died of TB in 2000, the year he graduated from college, so TB deaths have fallen by over 50% in 25 years. — 00:03:53
2025-01-28 · This Is Not Normal — John says this progress against TB has been far too slow, but it is progress. — 00:03:53
2025-01-28 · This Is Not Normal — John says more affordable tests and treatments can accelerate TB progress, as seen in the last couple of years, but progress is not guaranteed. — 00:04:22
2025-01-28 · This Is Not Normal — John says tuberculosis is rising in rich countries; the US will see around 10,000 active cases this year (2025), a reminder that TB is airborne. — 00:04:22
2025-01-28 · This Is Not Normal — John says TB anywhere is a threat to humans everywhere. — 00:04:22
2025-01-28 · This Is Not Normal — John says interrupting HIV medication can be life-threatening, as can stock-outs of TB drugs. — 00:04:52
2025-02-11 · What's at Stake — John says he knows almost nothing about most things, like helicopters or star distances, but knows a lot about TB and its medication from four years writing a book about it. (playful) — 00:00:00
2025-02-11 · What's at Stake — John sets out to explain what is likely to happen when TB medication and diagnostics that are already paid for rot in warehouses because of US government stop-work orders. — 00:00:29
2025-02-11 · What's at Stake — John explains that TB is curable but not easy to cure: the bacterium's thick, fatty cell wall is very hard to penetrate, so it is hard to kill. — 00:00:29
2025-02-11 · What's at Stake — John says a strep infection might be cured with about seven days of antibiotics, but TB needs several months, and in the past people often took antibiotics for years. — 00:00:29
2025-02-11 · What's at Stake — John says one of his friends survived TB after taking between 20,000 and 30,000 pills. — 00:00:58
2025-02-11 · What's at Stake — John says that with the current standard of care, drug-sensitive TB can be cured with four to six months of daily therapy, while drug-resistant TB takes at least six months and often much longer. — 00:00:58
2025-02-11 · What's at Stake — John says interrupting TB care in the middle of months of treatment is potentially catastrophic, both for individuals and for society. (hedged) — 00:01:27
2025-02-11 · What's at Stake — John says people on appropriate treatment almost never spread TB, but untreated TB is extremely infectious: the average untreated case infects 10 to 15 more people per year. — 00:01:27
2025-02-11 · What's at Stake — John says that if we suddenly stop treating TB, as has happened in many communities, disease prevalence will suddenly rise. — 00:01:56
2025-02-11 · What's at Stake — John says even a brief pause in treatment gives TB a good chance to develop drug resistance, so the drugs that worked before no longer work when treatment resumes weeks or months later. — 00:01:56
2025-02-11 · What's at Stake — John says that by one estimate TB has killed about one in every seven humans who have ever lived. — 00:02:26
2025-02-11 · What's at Stake — John says densely populated communities fared worse: in early industrial England about one in three people were dying of tuberculosis. — 00:02:26
2025-02-11 · What's at Stake — John says a resurgence of TB, especially drug-resistant TB, would mean not thousands but millions or tens of millions more premature deaths. — 00:02:55
2025-02-11 · What's at Stake — John says the United States is currently the main funder of the TB response in impoverished communities. — 00:02:55
2025-02-11 · What's at Stake — John says it is devastating to watch the US haphazardly and chaotically freeze, in effect, all TB funding. — 00:02:55
2025-02-11 · What's at Stake — John feels utterly powerless watching decades of progress against TB and other diseases of injustice put at risk, not for lack of tools but for lack of political will. — 00:03:53
2025-02-11 · What's at Stake — John says TB deaths have fallen by more than half in the last 25 years: that progress is under threat but still real, and it shows progress is possible. — 00:05:21
2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — In a comment, John says the century-old BCG vaccine prevents severe TB in young children but is not very, possibly not at all, effective in adolescents or adults. (hedged) — creator comment
2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says Watt became obsessed with a chemical treatment for phthisis after his daughter Jessie died of it at 15 in 1794 and his son Gregory fell ill. — 00:00:59
2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says Watt helped invent a device delivering nitrous oxide to the lungs to save Gregory, but it failed; Gregory died of consumption in 1804 at 27. — 00:01:27
2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John: After coughing up blood, Stokes was X-rayed in Gadsden and found to have miliary TB; the technician said he had never seen such a case live over two months. Stokes entered an Asheville sanatorium. — 00:03:13
2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says Asheville was one of many American cities founded as a kind of tuberculosis colony. — 00:03:13
2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John: Despite the best care, Stokes grew steadily worse and died on May 18, 1930, aged 29. — 00:03:50
2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says over a million people died of tuberculosis in 2023, more than died of malaria, typhoid and war combined. — 00:04:37
2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says tuberculosis has caused over a billion human deaths in the last two centuries alone. — 00:04:58
2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John cites an estimate from Frank Ryan's book that TB has killed around one in seven people who have ever lived. — 00:04:58
2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says COVID-19 displaced TB as the deadliest infectious disease in 2020-2022, but in 2023 TB regained that status, killing 1.25 million people. — 00:04:58
2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says what is different now from 1804 or 1904 is that tuberculosis is curable. — 00:04:58
2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says we know how to live in a world without tuberculosis, but we choose not to. — 00:05:43
2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says the same holds for TB: this year (2025) thousands of doctors will be unable to save millions of patients because the cure is where the disease is not. — 00:06:20
2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says the book is about the cure, why it was not found until the 1950s, and why since then we have let over 150 million people die of TB. — 00:06:20
2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says he started writing about TB to understand how an illness could quietly shape so much of human history. — 00:06:20
2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says he learned along the way that TB is both a form and an expression of injustice. — 00:06:20
2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says how we imagine illness shapes societies: TB was blamed on lung mechanics, coffee, heredity, demons, bad air, God or whiskey, and each view shaped who lived and died. — 00:07:39
2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says TB is a bacterial, airborne infection spread through coughs, sneezes or exhalations, and anyone can get it. — 00:07:39
2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says between a quarter and a third of all living humans have been infected with TB. — 00:07:39
2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says in most people the infection stays dormant for life, but up to 10% of the infected eventually develop active TB. — 00:08:14
2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says because TB spreads well in crowded slums and factories it is seen as a disease of poverty, walking the trails of injustice we blazed for it. — 00:08:43
2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John: For John, the history and present of tuberculosis reveal the folly, brilliance, cruelty and compassion of humans. — 00:09:05
2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says his wife Sarah jokes that in his mind everything is about tuberculosis and tuberculosis is about everything, and she is right. (playful) — 00:09:05
2025-02-28 · We Will Eradicate Measles — Hank says beyond the information battle we are losing the ability to help children elsewhere survive measles, malaria, tuberculosis and other preventable diseases, with no clear reason why. — 00:06:08
2025-03-04 · The ANXIETY IS PALPABLE — John says it is a good time to talk about tuberculosis because we are needlessly creating much more of it, but he doesn't want discussing the catastrophe to look like a self-promotion strategy. — 00:01:03
2025-03-04 · The ANXIETY IS PALPABLE — John says the book argues that tuberculosis has thrived through history along paths of injustice humans blazed, and traces how those forces made one particular boy sick in one place. — 00:01:37
2025-03-04 · The ANXIETY IS PALPABLE — John says that now we are laying out the red carpet on that trail for diseases of injustice like malaria, HIV and tuberculosis. — 00:01:50
2025-03-11 · Hank Green's Brother — John says Hank's ideas help coral reefs in Maui, hospitals in Sierra Leone and TB clinics in Lesotho, and Hank's desire to make a difference inspires him, especially now. — 00:03:18
2025-03-14 · Probably the Luckiest Thing in my Life — Hank says John has focused for years on tuberculosis, a massive problem few others think about, which objectively makes sense even if not to Hank's interest-seeking brain. — 00:02:39
2025-03-14 · Probably the Luckiest Thing in my Life — announcement: Hank says John's book about tuberculosis is selling extremely well, with people pre-ordering it heavily. — 00:03:38
2025-03-18 · ITS ALL HAPPENING — John wishes the book were less timely: he never imagined publishing it while we suddenly and chaotically do so much to worsen the global TB crisis. — 00:01:52
2025-03-25 · Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday — John says Louis Schneider, the 1931 Indy 500 winner, survived a very dangerous racing career but then died of tuberculosis at 40. — 00:00:00
2025-03-25 · Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday — John: Asked to connect Taylor Swift to TB, John cites a line of her song about the lakes as a reference to England's Lake District, where poets and others with tuberculosis were often sent to recover. — 00:00:00
2025-03-25 · Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday — John says Keats wrote 'I shall learn poetry here' while visiting the Lake District, and went on to die of tuberculosis at just 24. — 00:00:29
2025-03-25 · Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday — John: Joking that inventing Dr Pepper was not his only job, John says Alderton was also a pharmacist dispensing medicines, many used, ineffectively, to treat consumption. (playful) — 00:00:58
2025-03-25 · Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday — John's favorite fact cut from the book: Ringo Starr had TB as a young child, learned to drum out of boredom in a sanatorium, and survived thanks to newly available curative treatment. — 00:01:27
2025-03-25 · Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday — John's favorite person on tour: Ken, a Philadelphia security guard born in a TB sanatorium in 1952, who survived TB as an infant because his mother crushed 90 pills a day into sugar water. — 00:01:56
2025-03-25 · Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday — John says survival should have been the case for everyone with TB since it became curable in the 1950s, but tragically we have since allowed over 150 million people to die of it. — 00:01:56
2025-03-25 · Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday — John says NIH funding cuts are severely affecting TB research: a planned trial of a cheap tongue-swab TB test, like a strep throat test, was abandoned along with others. — 00:02:55
2025-03-25 · Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday — John stresses that a lot of money was already spent developing the test; only the spending to confirm it works has been dropped. — 00:03:24
2025-03-25 · Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday — John: Asked what to focus on if TB were eliminated, John says TB is by no means the only disease of injustice: cancer is one too. — 00:03:24
2025-03-25 · Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday — John says it is an incredibly difficult time for people who care about TB because we are taking steps away from better tuberculosis care, which is devastating. — 00:04:23
2025-04-11 (said on 2025-04-10, implied) · How Actually Crazy is This Mess? — Hank thanks John and everyone working with him on going to DC to lobby Congress to continue and escalate the fight against the deadliest infectious disease of today and of all time. — 00:18:12
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — John says that last week (week of 7 April 2025) he and many people from the community visited Washington, D.C., holding over 210 meetings with members of Congress and their offices to press for better TB funding. — 00:00:00
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — John jokes that the only thing their viewers agree on is hating tuberculosis and other diseases of injustice; Schiff plugs John's book Everything Is Tuberculosis. (playful) — 00:13:09
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — John says tuberculosis is a big part of American history: his great-uncle died of TB. — 00:13:38
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — John says tuberculosis caused one in seven deaths 100 or 110 years ago. — 00:13:38
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — John says the world could easily return there: hundreds of thousands are having TB treatment interrupted, which will cause skyrocketing drug-resistant TB, terrifying everywhere. — 00:13:38
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — John cites an estimate that within two years, without restored funding, TB deaths will rise from 1.25 million to 2 million, up 750,000; TB is the deadliest infectious disease. (hedged) — 00:15:51
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — John says the problem is also the chaotic way funding stopped: a sudden total freeze with no warning let no country fill gaps, so TB and HIV treatment was massively discontinued. — 00:16:21
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Adam Schiff: Schiff says some harms are permanent: someone who gets TB because of US absence suffers an injury that can be treated but never undone, as with damaged relationships. — 00:17:37
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Adam Schiff: Schiff says with TB and USAID the fault is in ourselves: patients are not at fault, but since TB can be eradicated, failing to do so is all on us. — 00:20:07
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — John says that because TB has been curable since the 1950s, its cause can no longer really be said to be Mycobacterium tuberculosis; on some level the cause is us. — 00:20:07
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — John says TB deaths have fallen by 50% in the last 25 years, and finds it tragic that 15 years of progress will be walked back in the next year. (doubtful: 50%) — 00:20:36
2025-04-22 · The Unimportant Things — John says it is a privilege to spread the news that the world's deadliest infectious disease is preventable and curable. — 00:00:00
2025-04-22 · The Unimportant Things — John says he has talked with over 15,000 people about the needless suffering caused by tuberculosis. — 00:00:58
2025-05-06 · Health CARE: Thoughts from Lima — John says that last week (week of 28 April 2025) he and Sarah were in Lima, Peru, with Partners In Health, known in Peru as Socios En Salud, to learn about tuberculosis screening and care. — 00:00:00
2025-05-06 · Health CARE: Thoughts from Lima — John says active case finding is essential to the future of TB care: waiting until someone is sick enough to visit a hospital is not good enough; cases must be found earlier. — 00:00:29
2025-05-06 · Health CARE: Thoughts from Lima — John relays a Venezuelan-born doctor: chest x-rays are first screened by AI software, sent to him via WhatsApp for review, then patients get GeneXpert tests confirming TB and its drug susceptibility. — 00:00:58
2025-05-06 · Health CARE: Thoughts from Lima — John learned that TB rates among trans women in Peru are 15 to 20 times higher than in the cis population. — 00:03:24
2025-05-06 · Health CARE: Thoughts from Lima — John says TB and other diseases of injustice do not strike randomly: they follow the paths of injustice and inequity that humans blaze. — 00:03:24
2025-05-20 · The Double — John admits it is not really Tuesday: he is filming over the weekend because on Tuesday he will be in Geneva, Switzerland, talking about tuberculosis. — 00:00:00
2025-05-20 · The Double — John says he barely kept himself from mentioning the Indy 500 in Everything Is Tuberculosis, since it, like everything, connects to tuberculosis. (playful) — 00:00:58
2025-05-20 · The Double — John says the 1931 Indy 500 winner, Louis Schneider, survived his dangerous racing career only to die of tuberculosis at 40. — 00:01:27
2025-05-20 · The Double — John thanks the book's supporters; meeting so many viewers in two months, he has preached that the world's deadliest infection is curable and eradicable. — 00:03:53
2025-06-03 · My Lies — John concludes he should stop predicting what he will do creatively or otherwise; ten years ago he would not have believed he'd write a book about tuberculosis. — 00:03:18
2025-06-10 · 90,000,000 Lives for $20 — John says graphs of child mortality, TB and HIV deaths since 2000 all bring good news, but this progress will stop and reverse because of the US-led global pullback in health funding. — 00:00:00
2025-06-10 · 90,000,000 Lives for $20 — John cites a recent estimate that within five years annual TB deaths will rise from 1.3 million to 2 million, and child mortality will worsen. — 00:00:00
2025-06-10 · 90,000,000 Lives for $20 — John says tuberculosis testing is 'in a coma', as one article put it, with millions going undiagnosed and therefore untreated. — 00:00:58
2025-06-10 · 90,000,000 Lives for $20 — John says he has seen TB Fighters win bipartisan support for anti-tuberculosis efforts. — 00:03:24
2025-06-10 · 90,000,000 Lives for $20 — John says chaotic, massive US spending cuts are the main reason hundreds of thousands have had TB treatment interrupted and millions living with HIV have been imperiled. — 00:04:52
2025-07-15 · LLAMAS Are NOT What You Think — John: Asked how llamas and tuberculosis are related, John says llamas can get tuberculosis, and so can fish. — 00:01:06
2025-07-15 · LLAMAS Are NOT What You Think — John asks whether it is a problem that developing treatments for male pattern baldness is far more lucrative for pharmaceutical companies than developing treatments for tuberculosis. — 00:06:22
2025-07-29 · Dad and Daughter Play Dress to Impress — John says a big part of the pale beauty standard dates back to tuberculosis. — 00:08:52
2025-07-29 · Dad and Daughter Play Dress to Impress — John says blush was originally meant to mimic the hectic fever that came with tuberculosis. — 00:09:25
2025-07-29 · Dad and Daughter Play Dress to Impress — Alice Green: Alice already knew the TB facts: she hasn't read John's book but has heard it from him talking over the years. (playful) — 00:10:10
2025-09-05 · Caffeine is Very… — announcement: Hank says the teas alternate between caffeinated and herbal and build from simple ones; quantity is limited, shipping is free, and all profit goes to fighting tuberculosis. — 00:06:39
2025-09-09 · Sorry, Hank, but Coffee Is Just Better — announcement: John says he is glad that Keats & Co., "this little coffee and tea company", has now raised over $1 million for life-saving tuberculosis care in impoverished communities. — 00:03:53
2025-09-16 · After seven long years… — John lists the community's real accomplishments: tens of millions of dollars raised for stronger health care systems, lower prices for TB diagnostics and treatments, and, playfully, the legacy of Pizza John. — 00:00:00
2025-09-23 · Why Can't I Take My Meds? — John says tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease, shows this: patients often feel fine within a month, but must take pills for four to six months or longer, sometimes over a thousand pills. — 00:01:56
2025-09-23 · Why Can't I Take My Meds? — John says TB patients must take the pills as prescribed to maximize the chance of cure and minimize the chance the infection returns with drug resistance. — 00:02:26
2025-09-23 · Why Can't I Take My Meds? — John says that while patients feel fine the medicine's side effects make them feel worse, so they may stop, especially if they don't trust the healthcare system. — 00:02:26
2025-09-30 · WHO ARE WE AND WHAT ARE WE DOING — Hank jokes they went from too few Wikipedia pages to too many, a presence stretching from tuberculosis activism to nerdpunk to VidCon that leaves newcomers no way to catch up. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:27
2025-09-30 · WHO ARE WE AND WHAT ARE WE DOING — Hank adds activism (wording unclear) that has forced companies to lower the prices of tuberculosis tests and medications. — 00:03:59
2025-10-01 · Real Reasons for Hope — John says for some reason this is not news: he has not seen it reported anywhere, though he pays attention to tuberculosis news. — 00:02:26
2025-10-01 · Real Reasons for Hope — John remarks that Frankenstein is a very tubercular novel, but that is another story. — 00:02:26
2025-10-28 · Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway — John says Guimaras is famous for its mangoes and hopefully will soon be famous for its tuberculosis eradication program. (hedged) — 00:00:00
2025-10-28 · Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway — John says the Philippines has the highest per capita prevalence of TB in the world. — 00:00:00
2025-10-28 · Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway — John: Answering a viewer in the comments, John says USAID was very slow to embrace TB preventive therapy and somewhat slow on curative treatment for some forms of TB. — creator comment
2025-10-28 · Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway — John: In the comments John says USAID is part of why TB deaths fell by 50% over the last 25 years; the progress is real but inadequate. — creator comment
2025-10-28 · Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway — John says we know how to eliminate TB from a community: actively search for cases, cure everyone found, and give close contacts preventive therapy. — 00:00:29
2025-10-28 · Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway — John says this has been known to work for decades but is generally not done because it is deemed too expensive or labor-intensive. — 00:00:58
2025-10-28 · Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway — John reports that this month (October 2025) about 5% of the island's people have been screened for TB, leading to over 750 diagnoses and much preventive care. — 00:01:27
2025-10-28 · Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway — John says the hospital is building an expansion and TB screening there has risen sharply. — 00:02:55
2025-10-28 · Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway — John says by some estimates around 3% of people in Guimaras currently have active TB. — 00:03:24
2025-10-28 · Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway — John says Guimaras is not a special hotspot: TB is rampant throughout much of the world even though we know how to cure it. — 00:03:24
2025-10-28 · Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway — John says he is grateful he fell in hate with TB, which has let him know hundreds of people working hard on a complicated problem. — 00:03:24
2025-10-28 · Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway — John believes Guimaras could be the first TB-free region of the Philippines, and if it is possible there, it is possible everywhere. (hedged) — 00:03:53
2025-10-28 · Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway — John says that with Guimaras as a blueprint for the world, he might live to see a world that no longer loses over a million people a year to TB. (hedged) — 00:03:53
2025-10-28 · Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway — John says over a million people are lost every year to TB, a curable disease. — 00:03:53
2025-10-31 · We Did It… — Hank says he has seen people online say John Green only cares about tuberculosis; it is a little silly but it gets under his skin. — 00:00:00
2025-10-31 · We Did It… — Hank says not every solution has a good business model, but because problems are bad, some people sometimes pay enough attention to bring solutions that are not economically self-sustaining; in many places TB is one of these problems. — 00:00:29
2025-10-31 · We Did It… — Hank says the critics really ask why John focuses on a problem no one else does, and that John's genius is focusing on a problem people don't care much about. — 00:03:17
2025-10-31 · We Did It… — Hank says about a thirtieth of the money spent on cancer treatment would be enough to cut the number of people with active TB by 80 or 90%. — 00:03:46
2025-10-31 · We Did It… — Hank says a case of cancer in the US costs north of $100,000 per patient, while TB costs around $1,000 per patient. — 00:03:46
2025-11-04 · The Real Question — Replying to Hank, John says his tuberculosis obsession is a path into a larger obsession he has had since being a hospital chaplain: why suffering is so unjustly distributed and what human-built systems can do about it. — 00:00:00
2025-11-04 · The Real Question — John says the great risk of caring too much about something like TB is starting to see one form of injustice as all forms of injustice, which is not true. — 00:00:29
2025-11-04 · The Real Question — John calls TB a barometer of global health: where there is malnutrition, poor working conditions and insufficient housing, there is also a lot of TB. — 00:00:29
2025-11-04 · The Real Question — John says over half of the 10 million people who will be diagnosed with TB this year (2025) will also be malnourished. — 00:00:29
2025-11-04 · The Real Question — John says that, before antibiotics, the US and many other countries reduced TB rates by over 80% just by improving nutrition and housing. — 00:00:58
2025-11-04 · The Real Question — John says when life gets better for the most vulnerable people, TB rates go down, and not just among the most vulnerable. — 00:00:58
2025-11-04 · The Real Question — John says we know exactly how to drive down TB rates and have done it all over the world, from Chile to Japan to Australia to the United States; the world lacks sufficient money to do it globally. — 00:00:58
2025-11-04 · The Real Question — John says that by not having sufficient money he means we choose not to have it. — 00:01:27
2025-11-04 · The Real Question — John says at meetings he attended last week (week of 27 October 2025) in the Philippines he heard a lot about funding gaps, a polite phrase for not devoting nearly enough money to ending TB. — 00:01:27
2025-11-04 · The Real Question — John says a doctor in an impoverished community told him that because of funding gaps no one diagnosed with TB there was put on treatment for eight months; they were told to avoid contact with others, as in 1890. — 00:01:27
2025-11-04 · The Real Question — John says funding gaps mean 4,000 people will die today of a disease curable for 70 years, and that few family members of the 30,000 diagnosed today will get preventive therapy. — 00:01:56
2025-11-04 · The Real Question — John says at the meetings he heard about exciting new tests, a potential vaccine and shorter, easier-to-tolerate treatment regimens, which encouraged him. — 00:01:56
2025-11-04 · The Real Question — John says the world is struggling to get even roughly 45-year-old TB treatment regimens to patients, let alone the newest technologies. — 00:02:26
2025-11-04 · The Real Question — John: In Tondo John met a 20-year-old man just diagnosed with TB, terrified for himself and for the six people he shares a room with. — 00:02:26
2025-11-04 · The Real Question — John says that at the meetings he tried to communicate that funding gaps mean over a million people dying needlessly of TB each year. — 00:03:24
2025-11-04 · The Real Question — John says that if he got TB he would receive precisely the right regimen for his disease, while others receive no treatment at all. — 00:04:23
2025-11-04 · The Real Question — John says if the 20-year-old dies of TB or his siblings catch it, that will not be his fault but our shared fault. — 00:04:23
2025-11-04 · The Real Question — John says what keeps him up is not TB itself but that TB is one facet of a much larger injustice, which he argues actually should keep him up at night. — 00:04:23
2025-11-10 · My Cancer Treatment was Not Cutting Edge — Hank: The second component is how justly or unjustly those tools are distributed, from tuberculosis to cancer treatment to new ways to unblock blocked blood vessels. — 00:04:50
2025-11-11 · John's Annual Psychophysical Decline — John says his travel has been non-stop; he feels fortunate to preach that the world's deadliest infectious disease is curable and preventable, but he is tired. — 00:00:00
2025-11-11 · John's Annual Psychophysical Decline — John says over a million people die every year from tuberculosis, though almost all could be saved by a drug regimen costing less than $300, which he calls bonkers. — 00:02:35
2025-11-11 · John's Annual Psychophysical Decline — John says providing the right TB regimen is not always simple, since it takes space, staff, stuff and systems to diagnose, treat and prevent it: not simple, but possible. — 00:02:35
2025-11-11 · John's Annual Psychophysical Decline — announcement: John presents Good Store's holiday bundles in three categories: socks and Sun Basin soap, candles and bath bombs fund the MCOE; coffee and tea fight TB; EcoGeek products fund the Coral Reef Alliance. — 00:03:34
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — John says the cause of tuberculosis has been known for about 140 years, yet there is still no great test for kids. — 00:00:00
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — John: Citing the World TB Report released the day before, John says TB, the deadliest infectious disease, kills 1.2 million people a year, a slight reduction: progress, but slow. — 00:01:17
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — John says progress against TB in kids is even slower. — 00:01:46
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — John says reinfection with TB, as Ani experienced, is common when community spread is not solved. — 00:09:46
2025-11-24 · Good Store Holiday Gift Guide LIVE with Hank and John — announcement: John presents Keats & Co., a coffee and tea company supporting comprehensive TB care in Lesotho: peppermint and Blooming Wild Black teas, Octavia and Calypso coffees, Paradoxica decaf, teacups and a tea strainer. — 00:02:03
2025-11-25 · Poverty Is Expensive — John says 1.2 million people died needlessly of tuberculosis just last year (2024). — 00:03:53
2025-11-25 · Poverty Is Expensive — John argues that TB and visa injustice both show that poverty is expensive: Henry and Isatu lost money and, above all, time, years to TB and more to visa injustice. — 00:04:23
2025-11-25 · Poverty Is Expensive — John says a mother he spoke to in the Philippines spent over a hundred dollars she didn't have getting her son diagnosed with TB, driving her further into poverty. — 00:04:52
2025-11-25 · Poverty Is Expensive — John argues that visas shape not just who gets to speak at the highest levels about the TB crisis but what kinds of conversations get had. — 00:04:52
2025-11-25 · Poverty Is Expensive — John says this is also why there are so many resources for health problems common in rich countries but not for tuberculosis. — 00:05:21
2025-11-25 · Poverty Is Expensive — John says the longer he works on TB the more he sees everything really is connected to it, but only because TB is a symptom of a larger human failure. — 00:05:50
2025-11-25 · Poverty Is Expensive — John says TB has been curable since the 1950s, yet 1.2 million people still die of it. — 00:05:50
2025-11-25 · Poverty Is Expensive — John says TB persists partly because it is hard to cure but mostly because we've failed to build systems that treat all human beings as equal, as Isatu's absence reminded him. — 00:05:50
2025-12-16 · John Green's Brother — John says he travelled over 130 days this year (2025) spreading the message that the world's deadliest infectious disease is curable and preventable: thrilling, terrifying and exhausting. — 00:03:53

2026

2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John says many TB fighters will be on Capitol Hill next month (March 2026) to talk to representatives about tuberculosis and global health funding. — 01:34:18
2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says forces in power want people to forget they have a voice, but attention and money matter: TB and global health funding were preserved beyond anyone's expectations thanks to people standing up. — 01:34:47
2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says it is a barometer of the ill health of our social orders that tuberculosis still thrives though curable for 70 years; it is a glaring injustice and a lens on other injustice, which is why he wrote about it. — 01:44:52
2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says APOPO trains rats to detect landmines and tuberculosis: TB has a smell some human super smellers can detect, but rats can too and are cheaper. — 01:49:48
2026-03-03 · The Best Fan Mail I Ever Received — John filmed this video in advance because next week (week of 9 March 2026) he will be in Washington, D.C., lobbying on Capitol Hill for global health and tuberculosis funding with hundreds of TB fighters. — 00:00:00
2026-03-10 · Is Hank Green Running for Congress? — John: Last week (early March 2026) John was on Capitol Hill with hundreds of TB fighters from the community, meeting over 250 Senate and congressional offices about global health and tuberculosis funding and research. — 00:00:00
2026-03-10 · Is Hank Green Running for Congress? — John says that since 2000 about 70 million tuberculosis deaths have been averted by lowering incidence and raising treatment and cure rates. — 00:04:33
2026-03-10 · Is Hank Green Running for Congress? — John calls that progress absolutely insufficient, since nobody should die of TB, but it is still 70 million people who lived longer, healthier lives. — 00:05:02
2026-03-10 · Is Hank Green Running for Congress? — John says US global health and tuberculosis funding are both relatively flat from the Biden years. — 00:05:31
2026-03-10 · Is Hank Green Running for Congress? — John: If the Constitution works, John says, the US will keep funding TB and global health at about the same rate, which is a huge win. (hedged) — 00:05:31
2026-03-17 · Tuberculosis and Hank's Shingles — John says GSK several years ago had two promising vaccine candidates, for shingles and for tuberculosis, that shared an adjuvant, so it could really pursue only one. — 00:01:27
2026-03-17 · Tuberculosis and Hank's Shingles — John says GSK chose shingles though tuberculosis causes more death, because shingles is a bigger problem in rich countries and TB mostly in poor ones, so the shingles market was much bigger. — 00:01:56
2026-03-17 · Tuberculosis and Hank's Shingles — John says pursuing the shingles vaccine left the TB vaccine much further behind; in the years we might have had one, many millions of people have died. — 00:02:26
2026-03-17 · Tuberculosis and Hank's Shingles — John says Galen recommended fresh air and sea voyages for tuberculosis, standard treatments for consumption for about two millennia though not particularly effective. — 00:03:45
2026-03-17 · Tuberculosis and Hank's Shingles — John says Keats & Co. delivers coffee and tea to your home and donates 100% of the profit to fight tuberculosis in impoverished communities. — 00:04:44
2026-03-17 · Tuberculosis and Hank's Shingles — John says the company is named for John Keats because he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25. — 00:04:44
2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis — John says tuberculosis has been curable since the 1950s but still kills over a million people a year because of failures of human-built systems. — 00:00:00
2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis — John: The title and description present the video as John explaining how the French Revolution, Panda Express, My Chemical Romance and mountain goats are all tuberculosis. (playful) — video description
2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis — John says The Fault in Our Stars is tuberculosis: he knew little about TB's contemporary problem when writing it, but was very interested in how 19th-century TB relates to cancer today. — 00:00:00
2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis — In a comment John says Dr Pepper inventor Charles Alderton was a pharmacist when TB killed more Americans than cancer and heart disease combined, so he would have sold many mostly ineffective consumption treatments. — creator comment
2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis — John was thinking about the romanticization of illness and how early-19th-century TB, striking people of any age and feeling capricious, resembles how we think about cancer today. — 00:00:29
2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis — John says mountain goats, pigs, sharks, cows and many more animals can get tuberculosis. — 00:00:58
2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis — John says Mendeleev's mother and sister died of TB; he caught it young and went to the seaside to recover, a popular but not very effective strategy, and he did recover. — 00:01:27
2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis — John says some people recover from tuberculosis on their own without antibiotic treatment, and we don't know exactly why. — 00:01:27
2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis — John says thalidomide is still occasionally used today, though not in pregnant women, including to treat tuberculosis of the brain. — 00:02:31
2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis — John says thalidomide also treats leprosy, which like TB is caused by a mycobacterium; the two are closely related diseases despite very different courses and symptoms. — 00:02:31
2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis — John hints that he wrote a whole book chapter on the relationship between leprosy and tuberculosis but later deleted it. (playful) — 00:02:31
2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis — John: Linking a Taylor Swift song about poets going to the lakes to die, John says poets went to the Lake District to recover their health and were dying of tuberculosis. — 00:03:00
2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis — John says tuberculosis was then killing around one out of every three people in London. — 00:03:00
2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis — John says TB is airborne and anyone can get it; today it is seen as a disease of poverty, but in the 18th century as anyone's disease, which is partly why it was romanticized. — 00:03:29
2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis — John: Admitting it is a tiny bit tenuous, John argues that much had to happen for the French Revolution to go as it did, and at least one of those things is tuberculosis. — 00:03:58
2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis — John says somewhat similar technology using pattern recognition and algorithms to identify lung problems is now used to diagnose tuberculosis. — 00:04:27
2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis — John concludes that the world is weird and everything is tuberculosis. (playful) — 00:04:27
2026-04-24 · The AI Question that No AI Person Asks — Hank: On what he calls TB Bench, Hank says TB kills more than a million people a year and its deaths have been preventable for decades, so intelligence is not the problem. — 00:02:07
2026-04-24 · The AI Question that No AI Person Asks — Hank: AI help with diagnostic imaging, new antibiotics or surveillance modeling would be great but would not solve TB: solutions exist, and they need institutions that want the outcomes and can execute. — 00:02:37
2026-04-24 · The AI Question that No AI Person Asks — Hank: Both cases share one problem: the people who need help or resources have no power over them; people who need housing have no sway in a community they don't live in. — 00:02:37
2026-05-05 · Noted Brother Hank Green — John: Last week (week of 27 April 2026) John met two 20-year-old best friends who live together; one is being treated for tuberculosis alongside her one-year-old child. — 00:02:44
2026-05-05 · Noted Brother Hank Green — John says tuberculosis is a disease that shouldn't exist, let alone one slowly malnourishing an already impoverished child. — 00:02:52
2026-05-08 · My Deathday — Hank once thought it would be fun to party on the day he would have died without cancer treatment: had he been born 100 years ago, lived where Hodgkin's is mistaken for TB, or refused treatment. — 00:00:00
2026-08-03 · Esther Day 2026: Some Thoughts on Loss — John cannot reconcile himself to his friend Henry having almost died of TB and living with its scars. — 00:02:13
2026-08-18 · My Nemeses — In a channel comment John says he tries not to hate people, but he does hate tuberculosis. — creator comment
2026-08-25 · The Great Thing about Infectious Disease — John: Today HIV can be prevented with a lenacapavir shot, TB with prophylactic antibiotics and cholera with sewage systems, while mumps, whooping cough, measles and diphtheria are vaccine-preventable. — 00:00:29
2026-08-25 · The Great Thing about Infectious Disease — John is part of the first generation of Americans who never had to fear measles or polio, thanks to vaccines, or death from TB or scarlet fever, thanks to antibiotics. — 00:00:58
2026-08-25 · The Great Thing about Infectious Disease — John's mother's life was different: she was two when the first polio vaccine came, eight when TB became curable with combined antibiotics, eleven at the first measles vaccine. — 00:00:58
2026-08-25 · The Great Thing about Infectious Disease — John: TB remains a US problem with about 10,000 active cases a year, but only 572 of the 1.25 million people who died of TB last year (2025) died in the US. — 00:01:27
2026-08-25 · The Great Thing about Infectious Disease — John: As recently as 1890 more Americans died of TB than of heart disease and cancer combined; TB not being a leading US cause of death is younger than Dr Pepper or Maxwell House. — 00:01:56
2026-08-25 · The Great Thing about Infectious Disease — John: Before milk pasteurization, as a poster from 85 years ago shows, children caught TB from caregivers, told not to kiss them, and from raw milk of infected cows. — 00:02:55
2026-08-25 · The Great Thing about Infectious Disease — John: Researching Everything Is Tuberculosis, John read Gail Perkins's memoir The Baby's Cross: infected by raw milk at three, she spent over 13 years in a sanatorium and came home unaccustomed to touch. — 00:03:24
2026-08-25 · The Great Thing about Infectious Disease — John: We have forgotten that in 1900 there were almost as many beds just for TB patients as hospital beds for all conditions combined. — 00:03:24
2026-08-25 · The Great Thing about Infectious Disease — John: TB rates have gone up in the US, and vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles and whooping cough are increasing. — 00:03:53
2026-08-28 · Why the Deadliest Virus Was the Easiest to Kill — ask: The description invites viewers who want to support Partners In Health's fight against tuberculosis to check out its work. — video description
2026-08-28 · Why the Deadliest Virus Was the Easiest to Kill — Hank says tuberculosis has a huge latent human reservoir: even in the US, where TB is rare, something like 13 million people carry TB bacteria without symptoms. (hedged) — 00:01:56
2026-08-28 · Why the Deadliest Virus Was the Easiest to Kill — Hank says latent TB is almost certainly not transmissible, but it can stay dormant for decades until the immune system falters, then becomes transmissible disease. — 00:02:26
2026-08-28 · Why the Deadliest Virus Was the Easiest to Kill — Hank says eradicating TB would mean not just treating active cases but putting out fires for decades as latent infections emerge. — 00:02:55
2026-08-28 · Why the Deadliest Virus Was the Easiest to Kill — Hank says TB also infects animals, but animal TB transmissible to humans seems somewhat different, so the animal reservoir matters less than the latent one. (hedged) — 00:02:55
2026-09-08 · The Life Expectancy Lies That Won't Die — John: In that narrative, children could not expect longer lives than their parents, because bad harvests could cause widespread malnutrition, which kills and is a risk factor for diseases from rickets to tuberculosis. — 00:00:58
2026-09-08 · The Life Expectancy Lies That Won't Die — John says tuberculosis remained the leading cause of death in humans by the early 20th century. — 00:01:27
2026-09-08 · The Life Expectancy Lies That Won't Die — John says even tuberculosis had been reduced through better understanding of how it was transmitted and better nutrition. — 00:01:56
2026-09-30 · The Point of Life — John: The further John has fallen down the tuberculosis rabbit hole over seven years, the more fulfilling it is: TB fighting gives him meaning and connections to TB fighters worldwide, a sense of community. — 00:01:40
2026-10-08 · The Test of a First Rate Intelligence — John says that in the last 25 years tuberculosis deaths have fallen by over 30%, yet we failed every one of the 1.2 million people who died of TB last year (2025). — 00:03:54
2026-10-20 · Correcting a Mistake in Everything Is Tuberculosis · 50 x 50 Science — John says almost every tuberculosis researcher he talks to tells him he cannot understand TB's biomedical challenge without understanding its sociological challenge. — 00:00:58
2026-10-20 · Correcting a Mistake in Everything Is Tuberculosis · 50 x 50 Science — John: Tuberculosis remains the world's deadliest infectious disease, sickening over 10 million people and killing over 1.2 million every year. — 00:01:56
2026-10-20 · Correcting a Mistake in Everything Is Tuberculosis · 50 x 50 Science — John says the United States dramatically reduced its tuberculosis rate between 1890 and 1940 by making homes and factories less crowded and improving air circulation, which reduced airborne transmission. — 00:02:26
2026-10-20 · Correcting a Mistake in Everything Is Tuberculosis · 50 x 50 Science — John: Lowering rates of absolute poverty reduced malnutrition, a huge risk factor for tuberculosis. — 00:02:26
2026-10-20 · Correcting a Mistake in Everything Is Tuberculosis · 50 x 50 Science — John: About half of the people who get sick with tuberculosis this year (2026) will also be malnourished. — 00:02:26
2026-10-20 · Correcting a Mistake in Everything Is Tuberculosis · 50 x 50 Science — John: Very few people with tuberculosis get nutritional support, even though all the guidelines call for it and the science is clear that it improves outcomes. — 00:02:55
2026-10-20 · Correcting a Mistake in Everything Is Tuberculosis · 50 x 50 Science — John: Tuberculosis mostly affects people in low- and middle-income countries, and there is less incentive to create drugs for illnesses that mostly affect poor communities. — 00:03:24
2026-10-20 · Correcting a Mistake in Everything Is Tuberculosis · 50 x 50 Science — John: Combined with a couple of other drugs and given daily for four to six months, this combination eventually cures tuberculosis. — 00:04:52
2026-10-20 · Correcting a Mistake in Everything Is Tuberculosis · 50 x 50 Science — John: The long TB treatment has downsides: more toxicity and side effects, costly patient support, and transport to the drugs, a cost usually borne by the person with TB. — 00:05:21
2026-10-20 · Correcting a Mistake in Everything Is Tuberculosis · 50 x 50 Science — John says most of the TB researchers he talks to say this is a good moment for developing new tools to fight tuberculosis. — 00:06:19
2026-10-20 · Correcting a Mistake in Everything Is Tuberculosis · 50 x 50 Science — John: Promising TB drugs and vaccines are in development, and people are starting to imagine curing TB within four to six weeks or less, which would be a huge change. — 00:06:19
2026-10-20 · Correcting a Mistake in Everything Is Tuberculosis · 50 x 50 Science — John: Earlier this year (2026) in the Philippines John met a teenager just diagnosed with TB who was told no treatment was available because of drug stockouts; every drug in his proposed regimen is over 60 years old. — 00:07:18
2026-10-20 · Correcting a Mistake in Everything Is Tuberculosis · 50 x 50 Science — John believes some people watching his video will live to see a world where tuberculosis is no longer the world's deadliest infection. — 00:07:47
2026-10-20 · Correcting a Mistake in Everything Is Tuberculosis · 50 x 50 Science — John: To bring about a world where tuberculosis is no longer the deadliest infection, John says, both biological and sociological problems must be solved. — 00:07:47