Drugs in a Pandemic
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Ralph talks drugs with two experts, first Katherine Eban about how we can expect the coronavirus pandemic to affect the supply chain for every drug we import. And Jamie Love about how the government needs to keep pharmaceutical companies from gouging American taxpayers in a crisis, especially when the research and development of the drugs was done with taxpayer money. Plus, Ralph answers a question from a listener trapped in the credit economy.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:05.0 | Stand up, stand up. |
| 0:07.0 | You've been sitting way too long. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan and I just want to share a little something with you before we move on. My wife was a little down watching the news yesterday and she said you know I feel lucky sitting |
| 0:25.5 | here with my coffee roof over my head plenty of food and good company indicating me and I don't know I couldn't help noticing that I came in |
| 0:34.4 | fourth after plenty of food and here's someone who's no stranger to fourth place, my co-host David. |
| 0:44.6 | Hello David. |
| 0:45.4 | Good morning. |
| 0:46.4 | You were in the hot zone in New York City. |
| 0:47.9 | We've been practicing social distancing all six years of this show. |
| 0:51.0 | We've been working remotely. I'm in Los Angeles, David is in New York. |
| 0:54.7 | How is it going over there, David? I'm in my apartment and I haven't been outside for a week. |
| 1:00.8 | So it's pretty much business as usual for me. Well, here's the man who always comes first on this show Mr Ralph Nader. Hello, Ralph. |
| 1:08.6 | Hello, this is a serious show, obviously. It's going to be about the coronavirus. That's right. |
| 1:15.5 | Ralph, you're kind of the antidote to our opening jokes there. Thank you. And he's |
| 1:20.3 | right. We're going to talk very seriously about some very important topics. |
| 1:25.0 | President Trump made claims that the anti-malarial drug, Chloroquine, can be used as a treatment for |
| 1:30.6 | coronavirus. |
| 1:32.2 | And he's been spreading a lot of inaccurate information in his daily briefings, |
| 1:35.8 | which is the absolute worst thing you can do in a crisis like this. It has led to panic buying and shortages of medications. |
| 1:43.3 | As countries around the world's resources are overwhelmed by the spread of coronavirus, the security |
| 1:48.8 | of the drug supply chain is called into question. |
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