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America Dissected

A Second Opinion with Dr. Anthony Fauci

America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Nobody has come to represent the role of science in taking on this pandemic quite like Dr. Anthony Fauci. He joins Abdul for their second conversation about where we’ve been, where we are now, and how to face down anti-science trolls, even when they come in the shape of US Senators. Take Crooked's listener survey: crooked.com/survey For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/americadissected.

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0:00.0

The FDA authorizes COVID-19 boosters for the immunocompromised.

0:18.9

The Democratic-led $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package could extend Medicare benefits to

0:24.4

people 60 and older.

0:26.3

This is America Dissective.

0:27.3

I'm your host, Dr. Abdul-Alsay.

0:35.3

This was Dr. Anthony Fauci in a conversation with, we'll call him another doctor.

0:40.5

Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about quite frankly and I want to say

0:45.1

that officially.

0:47.0

You do not know what you are talking about.

0:49.8

Okay, you get one person.

0:51.8

I'm in for the NIHF.

0:52.8

Can I get a question?

0:54.8

Unfortunately for all of us, that doctor is Senator Rand Paul.

0:58.2

Though he should know better, Dr. Senator Paul has chosen feeding red meat to his political

1:02.2

base over following the science that he trained on.

1:05.7

We're fortunate that Dr. Anthony Fauci was there to check him every single time.

1:10.0

That said, though many of us could see it coming, few of us understood just how politicized

1:14.5

this COVID-19 pandemic.

1:16.5

Everything from masks to vaccines to contact tracing could become.

1:20.2

But here we are.

1:21.2

A year in, the country's top infectious disease expert has to routinely spar with another

1:25.8

doctor in the Senate over basic science around getting vaccinated or wearing a mask in the

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