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4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Public health facts and fibs, vaccines as secret sauce, and, of course, GameStonk.

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0:00.0	If they say three-layer mask is better, I don't want to play guessing games with old t-shirts.
0:06.5	I want a certified cloth mask that I can purchase.
0:10.2	COVID-19 messaging has been muddled from the start.
0:13.7	Can it improve in time to make a difference?
0:16.5	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:19.6	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:21.3	We also have a vaccine supply problem,
0:23.9	but companies that could make them are hamstrung by patent laws.
0:28.2	They don't have that option unless Madonna and Pfizer are prepared to give that to them.
0:33.1	Patents are a form of monopoly.
0:35.2	Unless we change the policy, there's not much we can do about that.
0:38.4	Plus, how Redditors Day traded a meme stock into the heavens upending Wall Street, mostly for the walls.
0:45.8	Wall Street bets recognize that if they collectively decided to elevate GameStop stock, they could do it.
0:53.4	Stay tuned.
1:00.2	Music elevate GameStop stock, they could do it. Stay tuned. From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:04.0	Bob Garfield is off this week.
1:05.8	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:07.6	So, a new COVID safety precaution has been making the rounds, double masking.
1:13.6	So if you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on, it just makes
1:18.6	common sense.
1:19.6	Sound advice.
1:20.6	Why are we only hearing it a year into the pandemic?
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