Divine Secrets Of The DC Statehood
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🗓️ 23 March 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
The AstraZeneca vaccine was shown to completely prevent serious cases of COVID in a US clinical trial. We dig into the efficacy data on it, and what it means for the US and global vaccination campaigns.
The House held a hearing on D.C. statehood yesterday. DC has 700,000 residents and a large Black population, but no direct representation in Congress... House democrats want to change that, but they face an uphill battle in the Senate.
And in headlines: a gunman opened fire inside a grocery store in Boulder, a massive fire at a Rohingya refugee camp, and workplace controversies at 'Ellen' have led to a steep drop-off in viewers.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, March 23rd. I'm Hila Hughes. |
| 0:09.2 | And I'm getting in rest again. This is what the day reminding you to please not download |
| 0:12.9 | our free podcast illegally. |
| 0:14.8 | Yeah, all right. We work really hard on it and we make it free for a reason. So why would you do that? |
| 0:19.5 | You shouldn't tour into car. So you shouldn't tour at this show. |
| 0:30.7 | On today's show, an update on what is going on in Congress at the moment, including a push for DC |
| 0:34.7 | statehood, then some headlines. But first, the latest. We are a critical point in this pandemic, |
| 0:41.1 | a fork in the road where we as a country must decide which path we are going to take. |
| 0:46.0 | We must act now. And I am worried that if we don't take the right actions now, we will have another avoidable surge. |
| 0:55.8 | Oh, that is bleak. Well, that was CDC director Dr. Rochelle Wolinski with a familiar message. |
| 1:01.6 | But one that some people need to keep hearing, I guess. Also in familiar territory, there was more |
| 1:06.5 | news about AstraZeneca. Wad is contractually obligated to talk about AstraZeneca news every |
| 1:10.9 | single day, I guess. But seriously, we got data from the company's US trial on their vaccine. So |
| 1:16.0 | Gideon, what did we learn? Yeah, what a series of trials and tribulations for this company. So |
| 1:21.1 | the top line here is that the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine was basically 100% effective in preventing |
| 1:26.6 | serious illness and 79% effective against any and all symptomatic COVID. So the important takeaway |
| 1:32.0 | is that it prevented people from going to the hospital or dying point blank, a very big success in |
| 1:36.9 | that regard. And the trial, which involved more than 32,000 participants also reportedly did not turn |
| 1:42.0 | up serious safety issues as we've been talking about. There were concerns in Europe over these rare |
| 1:46.5 | reports of blood clots. So these trial results opened the door to a possible authorization in the US. |
| 1:51.9 | But according to the Washington Post, that clearance might only happen by May. Dr. Fauci said that |
| 1:56.2 | it was too soon to say what the role of AstraZeneca will be in the overall US vaccination campaign. |
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