Episode 172: Risk aversion is affecting vaccine diplomacy
Politics Politics Politics
Justin Robert Young
4.6 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
The US is doing a good job with vaccinations but parts of the world are on fire with COVID variants. How much is the Biden Administration responsible to help inoculate other countries. Is their natural risk aversion hampering those efforts?
Mailbag including questions about COVID stats, who Matt Gaetz is friends with and more.
Andrew Zarian joins the show to update us on the New York City mayoral race and Andrew Yang's increasing lead.
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| 0:00.0 | The following is brought to you by Dustin Campbell, Daily Tech News Show, Andy Beach, Nick Wood, Will Harris, and Craig. Politics politics politics politics |
| 0:43.4 | but I guess for Friday April 30th 2021 this is your old |
| 0:47.8 | pal Justin Robert Young joining you once again from Austin, Texas. I guess at some point I'll stop |
| 0:56.4 | mentioning that every episode but it's still novel to me so I'll keep saying it. |
| 1:00.4 | We're gonna talk about vaccine diplomacy in this episode because there's |
| 1:08.3 | some really horrifying things happening around the world and the United States has the ability to help make |
| 1:16.8 | them better if we can square some of our own issues. |
| 1:23.8 | We've got a mail bag, including some follow-up on our interview |
| 1:28.6 | with Andrew Heaton on Wednesday, |
| 1:30.4 | including a few surprising congresspeople who are friends. |
| 1:36.7 | We've got some topics about mail-in voting, |
| 1:41.5 | some more COVID stuff, |
| 1:43.1 | CDC talking points, and my pronunciation |
| 1:48.8 | of upstate New York Cities. |
| 1:54.0 | All of that and we revisit with our New York City Mayoral Race Correspondent Andrew Zarian, he gives us the download on the now undeniable |
| 2:07.8 | front runner Andrew Yang and whether or not the rest of the pack is going to be able to damage him enough |
| 2:17.0 | to bring this race a little closer. |
| 2:25.0 | But first |
| 2:47.0 | First. But first. Remember those fears were overblown days when we were very worried that we didn't have enough vaccines to go around. Well, whether those fears were overblown or Joe Biden has done a very good job ordering a very large |
| 2:57.0 | amount of vaccines we now no longer seem to have that problem. Indeed, current projections show that we could |
| 3:06.9 | be able to vaccinate every American, all 300 million plus of us with simply the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines that's not |
| 3:17.7 | including the Johnson and Johnson or the as-yet unapproved and likely won't receive approval until the summer |
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