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158: Why Don't We Care About Disabled People? (Special Episode)

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The Try Guys & Ramble

Comedy

4.918.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This week we experiment with a This American Life style approach to an important problem. GUESTS Andrew Gurza - @andrewgurza_ Imani Barbarin - @Imani_Barbarin Charis Hill - @BeingCharisBlog Raven Baxter - @ravenscimaven -- Hosted by Zach Kornfeld Produced by Miles Bonsignore Edited by Miles Bonsignore & Rainie Toll Research by Zoe Malik To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, Tribeud listeners, so this one's gonna be a little bit of a different type of episode.

0:03.9

Normally, the guys kinda jump from one topic to another topic, it's sometimes serious,

0:08.0

but it's usually quite silly.

0:09.6

And today, we decided to focus on one specific, more serious topic.

0:13.5

Now, I think the best place to start this specific story is from this interview.

0:17.1

It's from January 10, 2022 with Dr. Rochelle Wollensky.

0:20.0

She's the director of the CDC.

0:21.7

She went on Good Morning America to discuss testing results and also just the outlook

0:25.2

of how the pandemic will continue to affect a screen forward.

0:28.5

Given that, is it time to start rethinking how we're living with this virus that it's potentially here to stay?

0:34.1

You know, really important study if they may just summarize it.

0:37.2

A study of 1.2 million people who are vaccinated between December and October,

0:42.7

and demonstrated that severe disease occurred in about 0.015% of the people who are received their primary series.

0:53.0

And death in 0.003% of those people.

0:57.3

The overwhelming number of deaths over 75% occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities.

1:04.2

So really, these are people who were unwell to begin with.

1:07.9

To paraphrase, people with four or more comorbidities were more likely to die from COVID.

1:12.0

Now, comorbidities when someone has more than one health condition at the same time.

1:15.6

A list of someone's comorbidities could include depression, diabetes, high blood pressure,

1:19.8

cerebral palsy, ankle-losing spondylitis,

1:22.0

spastic-dipely-discirbral palsy, cancer, the list goes on and on, essentially disabled people.

1:27.3

People who were unwell to begin with, and yes, really encouraging news in the context of Omicron.

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