I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Tuesday, October 12th.

Here's the political world we're living in right now, headline from Huffington Post.

Texas Republican Alan West goes on anti-vaccine

rant while hospitalized with COVID-19. Yep, I didn't make that up. We'll talk to Huffington Post

Washington Bureau Chief Amanda Turkle in a minute, and we'll see some other things they're reporting.

But maybe you know

Alan West, the former congressman, who's now running for the Republican nomination for governor

of Texas, Huff Post reports that West got monoclonal antibody treatment in a Dallas hospital

emergency room as he battled pneumonia and low blood oxygen levels from COVID. From that hospital,

he praised the monoclonal antibodies treatment, but railed against Big Pharma making money off

the vaccines. But as the article notes, Big Pharma makes the monoclonal antibodies too. And they're

much more expensive than a vaccine,

and you have to be hospitalized for days and get them through an IV.

But from his hospital bed, West said, quote,

After this experience, I am even more dedicated to fighting against vaccine mandates.

So that's one story. Another one on HuffPost by the AP is

Georgia election workers fired after allegedly shredding voter registrations. That was in Fulton

County, home to Atlanta. So multiple election workers were allegedly destroying voter registration forms.

Now, we don't know who or why yet from what I've seen,

but maybe that's the latest way to prevent people from voting in cities.

We'll see.

Related story, another HuffPost headline.

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