Comparing COVID-19 vaccines and Climate Change with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

The Gist

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🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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On the Gist, ads for "The Big Game" are given the Pesca treatment. In the Interview, it's vaccine talk. Mike sits down remotely with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a former Detroit health director and epidemiologist about the COVID-19 vaccine. They talk about how social media has spread both information and misinformation, how the response to the coronavirus is eerily similar to climate change, and how Canadians have managed to get things right. Plus, when politics and health collide: El-Sayed's new book Medicare for All: A Citizen's Guide is out now. He's also the host of America Dissected from Crooked Media, among many other projects. In the spiel, George Shultz' legacy as a public servant. Email us at thegist@slate.com Podcast production by Margaret Kelley and Cheyna Roth. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains a bit of explicit material,
0:04.8	but much, much more that is not explicit, just as a percentage.
0:09.2	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:12.4	It's Monday, February 8th, 2020, from Slate, it's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.
0:17.2	Are you like media? Like the anchor of the CBS Evening News with Nora O'Donnell, namely Nora O'Donnell.
0:23.3	But do you not want to see her on a mountain with Beavis and Butthead?
0:27.3	So I'm talking about the Super Bowl, obviously. What?
0:31.2	And the ads played during the Super Bowl, and there was one, actually, it was like a series.
0:35.7	There was Patrick Stewart on a mountain. James Corden was on a snowmobile,
0:40.3	Dora the Explorer was there on a mountain top.
0:43.2	But there, this ad for the Paramount Streaming Service, there.
0:46.7	I noticed in one of the iterations of the ads, a blink-and-you-miss-her cameo,
0:52.0	by the anchor of the CBS Evening News, Nora O'Donnell.
0:56.5	Sure, you came to the Paramount Streaming Service to get your fix of Dora and Benny,
1:01.1	if they're going to solve their mystery. But after that, we're going to need someone really
1:04.2	competent to throw it to Jeff Peguise with the details.
1:07.9	Wait, if Nora O'Donnell is there, is CBS News and Election Survey Director, Anthony Salvano,
1:13.3	also on the mountain, perhaps at a lower altitude, a rocky crag,
1:18.1	that he repelled down after he got his crampons entangled in a Quinnipiac survey of registered
1:24.7	voters. Nora O'Donnell was on a pantsuit on a mountain. Also, another mountain related ad was this one.
1:32.5	How did a blind man conquer Mount Everest? How did a kid who'd love Nazcar? She's
1:39.3	knowing his heart. One day, he'd win the Brickyard and Daytona 500.
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