Ep. 225: Omicron Under The Christmas Tree (w/ Dr. Peter Hotez)
The Michael Moore Podcast
Michael Moore
4.7 • 9.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Just in time for the holidays, Mother Nature has given us her biggest pandemic surprise yet. Yes folks, Omicron is everywhere – and that includes right under your Christmas tree, as you get ready to gather with your grandparents and your unvaccinated baby nieces or nephews. To help you navigate the holidays, know a little more about how to stay safe while living with Omicron, and about what can be done in the fight for vaccine equality across the world, we're joined by returning Rumble guest Dr. Peter Hotez, Co-Director for the Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, and Dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.
Michael & Dr. Hotez talk about why we might be assuming a bit too much about Omicron being more "mild", whether healthcare workers and the vulnerable might need another booster, vaccine inequality across the world, and what the Biden administration – and you – can do about it.
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Read about Dr. Hotez & the Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development to create a cheap-to-produce, patent-free COVID vaccine for the whole world.
More on the Corbevax Vaccine Dr. Hotez has led development on.
And learn about efforts to roll out Corbevax soon in India.
Here's how you can donate this holiday season to support the Texas Children's Hospital Center's efforts to bring vaccines to the whole world.
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Music in the episode:
Brenda Lee, "Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree"
Judy Garland, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
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| 0:00.0 | This is Rumble with Michael Moore and I'm Michael Moore. Welcome everyone. We're just |
| 0:27.6 | coming up here on Christmas Eve in just a few hours and I wanted to get this |
| 0:34.4 | week's podcast out to you because of what is going on with the pandemic right |
| 0:41.0 | now and I wanted to talk to one of our favorite doctors Dr. Peter Otes from |
| 0:46.3 | Houston who has really been speaking the truth on TV and anywhere you can and |
| 0:53.7 | I had him on here before and I wanted to ask him some some direct questions so |
| 1:00.1 | hang on for that that's coming up here in just a couple of minutes. I guess doing |
| 1:04.0 | this doing this on the band. This becomes our Christmas podcast this year the |
| 1:08.2 | previous two years you know this is we we hit our second birthday with this |
| 1:13.8 | podcast this past week. Well just in time for Christmas Omicron is everywhere. |
| 1:21.5 | Just in the span of this one past week Omicron jumped from about 3% of the |
| 1:29.6 | COVID cases in the United States to 73% of all cases in this country and in |
| 1:36.5 | some parts of the nation it's as high as 90% this thing has taken off like |
| 1:42.6 | wildfire in every part of America. Try to get an at home test. They're sold out |
| 1:50.9 | everywhere. Try to go line up for one of the free testing sites you know you |
| 1:56.8 | could be there a good couple hours. They extend for blocks the lines around the |
| 2:02.2 | blocks and that's until they run out of tests themselves. All this is happening |
| 2:07.9 | just in time for the holidays. The biggest travel season of the year where most |
| 2:12.5 | people won't or can't afford to change their travel plans and they miss |
| 2:17.5 | their families. It's understandable but it's also the most dangerous time since |
| 2:24.8 | this started actually two years ago this month but there is good news in all |
| 2:30.3 | of this. If you're vaccinated your odds of hospitalization or death are like |
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