It's Not Easy Making Vaccine
What A Day
What A Day
4.6 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The vaccine race is on, with several companies, governments, and academic labs working on lots of different potential options at once. We dig into the radical ideas to speed things along.
Protestors and activist groups in Georgia are calling for the resignation of the district attorney who chose not to arrest the killers of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, who was shot while jogging unarmed in that state. A look at the activists and leaders who are speaking out.
And in headlines: Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos makes things more difficult for college sexual assault victims, Facebook unveils 20 members of its content Supreme Court, and one brave Belgian llama stands up to Covid-19.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, May 7th. I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:08.2 | And I'm Gideon Ressick and this is what a day where we are already pre-gaming with fresh, |
| 0:12.4 | squeezed, orange juice for Mother's Day. |
| 0:14.4 | Yeah, and I'm on the phone with my mom right now because it's a birthday. |
| 0:17.6 | Happy birthday, Marilyn. |
| 0:19.0 | Happy birthday Achila's mom. |
| 0:20.7 | Hope that's a good one. |
| 0:30.0 | On today's show, an update on the murder of Amad Arbery and the efforts that activists |
| 0:37.0 | are taking in response, then some headlines. |
| 0:40.1 | But first, a quick announcement. |
| 0:41.5 | So we're going to be taking a day off tomorrow. |
| 0:43.6 | I hope that you've had a day off since all of this has started happening, but that means |
| 0:47.6 | there's not going to be an episode on Friday. |
| 0:49.2 | So we will be back in your ears right and early on Monday. |
| 0:53.3 | And now it's time for the latest. |
| 0:54.3 | I'm going to be saying, hey, call your congressman and change these laws that apply to banks. |
| 0:59.4 | And what the FCC has said is that when the subject matter of the call ranges to the topic, |
| 1:05.2 | then the call is transformed. |
| 1:07.2 | Okay, so that was a clip from the Supreme Court oral arguments yesterday. |
| 1:11.8 | Yeah, that was a toilet flushing. |
| 1:13.8 | It did flush, you know, I guess the perils of working from home are real no matter where |
| 1:18.8 | he worked. |
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