Amanpour: Angus Thomson, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, Judy Collins and Nikki King

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Dr Matshidiso Moeti, W.H.O regional director for Africa, and Angus Thomson of UNICEF, join Christiane Amanpour to discuss the latest in the coronavirus pandemic, specifically the study on the AstraZeneca vaccine's efficacy against the South Africa variant. Then folk singer Judy Collins talks about her return to New York's The Town Hall and reflects on her 60-year career that helped launch Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen. And lastly, our Hari Sreenivasan speaks to Nikki King, manager of Behavioral Health and Addiction Services at Margaret Mary Health. She witnessed the devastating impact of opioid epidemic on the southeastern Kentucky community she grew up in. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up. South Africa
0:09.0	suspends the rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine. We will discuss with the WHO Regional Director for Africa
0:15.4	Dr Matsidiso Moiti and the power of misinformation with social scientist Angus
0:21.4	Angus Thompson.
0:23.0	Then...
0:24.0	He's driving in tonight from California.
0:29.0	Recreating history.
0:31.0	The legendary Judy Collins talks about restaging one of her most famous
0:35.3	performances and how at 81 she's only getting better with age. Plus you lock
0:41.6	them in sod in social oscillation during a pandemic.
0:45.0	That becomes really difficult.
0:48.0	A pandemic on top of an epidemic, health care advocate Nicky King tells our Harry Streinavasan about her novel approach to combating program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. Today the British
1:15.8	Prime Minister weighed in on global COVID vaccine messaging declaring that he is
1:20.7	very confident that all the vaccines being used in the UK are effective
1:26.0	at protecting against death and serious illness.
1:29.0	Now this follows South Africa pausing its rollout of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine. Why?
1:35.0	Because a small study suggested that it offers minimal protection against mild and
1:40.6	moderate cases of the so-called South Africa variant.
1:44.7	Now the vaccine's lead researcher expects to have a modified version by the fall.
1:50.2	But those important details could get lost in the maze of misinformation and conspiracy theories that have flourished amid this pandemic.
1:58.0	So, in a world that's betting everything on science and vaccines, how do you keep people safe from the disease
2:05.2	and deception?
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