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Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Covid-19 With Virologist Dr. Christian Bréchot, Plus Rambo Goes to Venezuela

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Leading virologist Dr. Christian Bréchot discusses the origins of Covid-19, how the virology and wider scientific communities are working together for solutions, how a vaccine may get developed, and why he doesn’t expect one any time soon. Katie and Matt break down the botched coup in Venezuela Merch Link: https://teespring.com/stores/useful-idiots Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots. I'm one of your two hosts, Katie Halper.

0:13.2

Nothing. I guess makes me the other one. I'm Matt Taiyabi.

0:16.2

Welcome, Matt. Welcome everyone.

0:18.2

Welcome to Useful Idiots, coronavirus week, whatever addition.

0:21.8

Yeah.

0:22.8

How many weeks have we been in quarantine now?

0:24.6

I don't know, a couple months.

0:25.9

A couple months. I'm strangely like not tired of it yet.

0:29.7

Really?

0:30.7

Yeah, I mean, I'm kind of a missing throat anyway, so I don't really, you know, see, you

0:35.4

know, I think it was Sartre once said, hell is other people. So I'm not quite freaking

0:40.9

out yet yourself.

0:41.9

So you're like excited that people are dropping off?

0:44.8

No, no, no, I'm not like, you know, reveling in the depths of all those people. I'm just,

0:50.2

you know, the fact that I'm not seeing so many is strangely not affecting my psyche negatively

0:55.9

in yourself. You're doing well.

0:57.4

I am. I'm also appreciating having some dogs around. I think I'm a more social person

1:03.6

than you are, but it's not, it's, I'm around other people, family and a family friend,

1:09.9

which makes a big difference. The family friend and not just family because it kind of

1:14.2

prevents me from totally devolving and regressing. Like I have somewhat of a game phase.

1:20.6

Right. Well, none of us have gone completely openly insane yet. So that's, that's these

1:25.5

are all good signs. So that leaves it, it makes it possible for us to continue to do the

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