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America Dissected

A Global Vaccine for a Global Pandemic?

America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Abdul dissects the incentives that drive Big Pharma and how they tend to get in the way of getting medications to those who need them most. Then he interviews Priti Krishtel and Tahir Amin of the Initiative for Medicines, Access, and Knowledge about their work to take on the pharmaceutical industry and deliver vaccines to the world. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/americadissected.

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0:00.0

A new coronavirus variant will feature that are similar to both the UK and India variants

0:11.1

was discovered in Vietnam.

0:12.5

Oh, and those variants are now called Alpha and Delta, according to a new convention that

0:17.0

renames variants according to the Greek alphabet.

0:19.8

The Biden administration declared June a national month of action, kicking off a range

0:23.6

of activities to incentivize Americans to get their vaccines.

0:27.4

The Tokyo Olympics set to begin at the end of next month are at a crossroads as 10,000

0:32.0

volunteers quit and Japanese Medical Association's urged the government to cancel.

0:37.0

This is America Dissected.

0:38.0

I'm your host, not Crabdool Alseid.

0:47.0

My family and I, for the first time since the pandemic started, are looking at the prospect

0:51.0

of getting on an airplane.

0:52.0

I haven't been on one since March 15th of 2020.

0:55.7

I don't even know what to expect.

0:57.5

Obviously, you know my family and I are going to be masked up, ready to go.

1:02.0

But I hope we don't have to deal with some anti-maskers who can't figure out that this

1:05.4

is all for his or her own safety and decides to make a whole scene about it.

1:09.4

Honestly, if folks would just hurry the hell up and get vaccinated, maybe we wouldn't

1:13.2

have to deal with the mandatory masks at all and we could get back to a time when we

1:16.6

could put the mask business behind us.

1:19.2

With full vaccination rates barely getting to 50%, we're not there yet.

1:23.6

And that's just the United States.

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