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Amanpour: Tim Harford, Dr. Helen Rees, Ebs Burnough and Charles Blow

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Journalist Tim Harford and renowned medical researcher Dr. Helen Rees join Christiane Amanpour to discuss the latest on covid-19 vaccines and the spread of disinformation. Then, CNN’s Phil Black spends some time with bereaved families who have tragically lost loved ones to the virus. Director Ebs Burnough speaks to Amanpour about his debut film about the American author Truman Capote. Author Charles Blow talks to Hari Sreenivasan about his book, "The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto." 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 Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.

0:09.0

If you can get people protected and get an umbrella of what we call herd immunity,

0:17.0

the level of infection is going to go very, very low down.

0:20.5

Following the herd to immunity, economist Tim Harford dives into the vaccination data and tells us how soon we may see an impact.

0:29.0

Then... I've never felt pain like that.

0:32.0

Because I couldn't be with him I couldn't hold him. I couldn't

0:37.0

the human factor we hear the heartbreaking stories of grief in the time of COVID and

0:44.6

Well he was rather respectable, there's nothing ever like him on the American scene.

0:48.2

The complex life and times of Truman Capote,

0:51.4

Director Ebes Burno gives us a riveting new look at this literary icon in his

0:56.5

eye-opening documentary The Capote tapes. Plus... In the aggregate, people who don't have to live under white supremacy are going to do better than those who do.

1:08.0

Charles Blows bold idea in the devil you know. The author tells our hurry street of us and why he's calling on

1:14.7

black Americans to return to the program everyone. I'm Christiane, I'm

1:34.8

I'm poor in London and it was a good day here in Britain as health officials

1:39.0

celebrate promising new data on one of the major COVID vaccines. The new study by Oxford University

1:45.3

shows that not only does their astrozenica vaccine prevent serious illness,

1:50.0

but it also slows down transmission of the virus and this is hugely important

1:54.9

because for the first time it answers that very question about stopping the

1:59.0

spread of coronavirus and what's more data shows that one dose offers significant protection and that

2:05.9

spacing out the two doses to 12 weeks does not minimize the vaccine's effectiveness

2:11.4

and may even enhance it. Good news as the COVID the vaccine rollout is in a race with the virus itself. But poor

2:19.8

nations are still not getting their fair share of shots, while variants and

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