The Institute of Health metrics and evaluation at the University of Washington, a leading forecasting

group for the pandemic, revised its estimates stating we should expect 410,000 deaths by New

Years' Day.

That's more than double as many lives currently lost.

It's becoming clear that reopening colleges and universities for in-class learning is a

bad idea.

How breaks are popping up on campus's nationwide.

And Donald Trump keeps politicizing the vaccine, threatening to turn it into a late October

surprise.

This is America Dissected.

I'm your host, Dr. Abdul-Lsaid.

If you've been listening to this podcast, you know I'm not afraid to call out political

bullshit when I see it.

And I see a lot of it.

Politics is a process.

You ask a question, you pose a hypothetical answer to that question, and then you do everything

you can to disprove it.

The whole process is built around removing our biases from our original questions.

Politics is simply the way we allocate scarce resources.

And since, by definition, all resources are finite, politics is everywhere.

And so politics and science have to interact.

People who think they can ignore politics don't appreciate that ignoring something so ubiquitous

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