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🗓️ 4 December 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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How to convince enough Americans to take a COVID vaccine so that the country can reach herd immunity. Plus, how a new voting conspiracy is taking hold on the right.

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0:00.0	Death threats, physical threats, intimidation, it's too much.
0:06.2	When Republicans turn on Republicans, it can get ugly.
0:10.2	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:14.2	I'm Bob Garfield.
0:16.2	Also on this week's show, the anti-vax crowd used to be limited to nervous moms and the seriously red
0:23.3	pill. But COVID changed all that. Everybody was at home on their computers and looking for
0:29.0	answers where they were not to be found yet. So the anti-vaccination movement saw that as an opportunity.
0:34.0	So they started creating content. The first anti-vaxxers freaked out over cowpox inoculations agitated 300 years ago.
0:43.3	These vaccinated individuals it was feared would become these minotaur-like creatures and kill everyone in the village.
0:49.3	And so a lot of the folks that were vaccinated early on were shunned.
0:53.3	Plus, who are you calling a herd?
0:56.7	It's all coming up after this.
1:00.3	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:04.5	Brooke Gladstone is away.
1:06.3	I'm Bob Garfield.
1:08.5	Okay, it's here.
1:10.3	Potential salvation in a syringe.
1:13.4	The FDA will soon hold reviews for COVID-19 vaccine makers, Pfizer, and Moderna,
1:18.5	both who have submitted emergency use authorization application.
1:22.2	Two or possibly three such vaccines will soon be distributed in tens of millions of doses. The goal is to successfully
1:30.2	inoculate 60% of the public, at which point society would attain so-called herd immunity, and with
1:36.9	it the end of community spread that turns isolated infections into epidemics. What humanity has
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