Boos, Boosters and BooBoos

America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Abdul and Katelyn discuss the latest in science and health including: Senator Joni Ernst’s “we’re all going to die” townhall moment The CDC and FDA’s conflicting guidance on Covid boosters The errors in RFK Jr's MAHA report More devastating funding cuts to medical research, including a future HIV vaccine Then Abdul sits down with Dr. Carmen Rojas, the President and CEO of the Marguerite Casey Foundation to talk about the role of philanthropy over the next four years, and why MCF has dramatically increased their funding to non-profits to meet this moment. Check out our shop at store.americadissected.com for our new America Dissected merch – including logo shirts, hoodies and mugs. And don’t miss our “Vaccines Matter. Science Works.” t-shirts! This show would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors. America Dissected invites you to check them out. This episode was brought to you by: de Beaumont Foundation: For 25 years, the de Beaumont Foundation has worked to create practical solutions that improve the health of communities across the country. To learn more, visit debeaumont.org.

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0:00.0	There's some real confusion around COVID boosters.
0:11.2	Bird flu research flies the coop, and a future HIV vaccine looks like more of a long shot.
0:16.3	This is America Dissectin. I'm your host, Dr. Abdul Al-Salced.
0:18.8	And I'm your co-host, Dr. Caitlin Jadalina.
0:20.9	And we're recording this on Tuesday, June 3rd at 12 p.m. Eastern time.
0:29.5	Well, it's been a really momentous last two weeks here, Caitlin. I don't know where to start,
0:36.0	but I do feel like a U.S. Senator coming to
0:39.1	terms with the fact of mortality as a justification to destroy health care for a lot of our own
0:44.0	constituents might be the right place. And, well, I'll let you listen to the clip. Take a listen
0:49.0	to Senator Joni Ernst at an event in her home state of Iowa. And I'm happy to say she's
0:53.6	facing some criticism from her
0:55.1	constituents about the big, ugly bill. Take a listen here. When you are arguing about
1:00.5	illegals that are receiving Medicaid benefits, 1.4 million, one point, they're not, they are not
1:09.1	eligible. So they will be coming off.
1:13.0	So people are not, well, we all are going to die.
1:18.9	Wow.
1:21.5	Wow.
1:25.9	That's so bad.
1:28.1	It reminds me of the government in the hunger games, sort of just justifying, like, cruel,
1:34.1	brutal government tactics that benefit nobody but her donor class in the, like,
1:39.1	in the most honest way.
1:40.1	And the reality of it is that she's just saying the quiet part out loud.
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