Florida's Right To Post Shall Not Be Infringed
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🗓️ 26 May 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Moderna said that its vaccine trial for 12-17 year olds resulted in zero cases of symptomatic COVID. Also, we discuss so-called breakthrough cases, which happen when fully vaccinated people get coronavirus: Don't worry, they're wildly rare and a sign of the effectiveness of vaccines.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a law that would prohibit social media platforms from kicking off political candidates. If you're thinking "How do you enforce that?" or "Is this all to suck up to Trump?" the answers are “yes” and “obviously.”
And in headlines: a Russian company tried to pay science influencers to sow vaccine misinformation, Marjorie Taylor Greene's holocaust analogies, and Simone Biles lands a double pike on vault.
Show Notes:
NYT: "C.D.C. Will Not Investigate Mild Infections in Vaccinated Americans" – https://nyti.ms/2RKG7Sx
WSJ: "Intelligence on Sick Staff at Wuhan Lab Fuels Debate on Covid-19 Origin" – https://on.wsj.com/3yOKFbk
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, May 26th. I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:09.6 | And I'm getting a rest like this is what a day where we put the super and the blood into super flower blood moon. |
| 0:16.0 | This moon needs to figure itself out man. I mean it's honestly doing too much. |
| 0:19.8 | Like why don't we just go back to moon and try again? |
| 0:22.8 | On Today's show Florida says it will punish social media companies that suspend the accounts of political candidates plus we'll have headlines. |
| 0:38.4 | But first the latest. |
| 0:40.4 | Today the US will hit 50% of adult Americans that are fully vaccinated. |
| 0:47.2 | This is a major milestone in our country's vaccination efforts. |
| 0:51.0 | Yeah, yeah, all right. So that was Andy Slevitt, a White House senior advisor on the COVID-19 response with the big number of the day. |
| 0:59.7 | Gidey, what else did we hear about the federal response to the pandemic yesterday? |
| 1:03.4 | A lot of good numbers. The latest briefing went over some individual successes including that nine states have hit at least 70% of their adult population with at least one dose. |
| 1:13.3 | That is great. Reminder that's the magic number of the White House is looking for a nationwide by July 4th. |
| 1:18.2 | And almost 5 million adolescents have gotten at least one dose as well per the CDC data. |
| 1:22.8 | And that is sure to go up with some other news that we got yesterday as well. |
| 1:27.4 | Moderna said that it's vaccine trial for 12 to 17 year olds resulted in zero zero cases of symptomatic COVID. |
| 1:33.8 | And they're planning to apply for authorization from the FDA for that age group in June. |
| 1:38.2 | If they are successful, that would accompany Pfizer, which has already been cleared for use in 12 to 15 year olds throughout the country. |
| 1:44.2 | And then zooming out, we are now among the most vaccinated countries in the entire world, which is great, but of course means that major inequities remain. |
| 1:51.4 | Even still at the same briefing that we're talking about, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky warned of risks for the unvaccinated Americans among us over the Memorial Day holiday saying quote, |
| 2:00.6 | we are not quite out of the woods yet. |
| 2:03.0 | We certainly aren't. I want everybody to turn up and have a good time, but I also don't want anybody to get COVID. |
| 2:07.8 | So just be smart. Get vaccinated. |
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