Share the Vaccine 'Recipe'

Social Distance

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

When the Biden administration announced support for waiving COVID vaccine patents last week, it was met with praise, relief, skepticism, and alarm among different groups—but surprise all around. Pharmaceutical giants have long fought efforts to have their intellectual property released to meet international needs. And they’ve backed it up with immense political muscle. Could this time be different? Would it disincentivize future research, as critics like Bill Gates claim? And how much (and how quickly) could it help? To understand the issue, Jim and Maeve are joined by Julie Rovner, the Chief Washington Correspondent for Kaiser Health News and host of the podcast “What The Health?” Support this show and all of The Atlantic’s journalism by becoming a subscriber at theatlantic.com/supportus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.7	Hi Jim.
0:32.0	Hi Mave. How's it going? Getting better every day. Oh that's wonderful. Yeah. At least in New York. Yeah. Yeah. In my small world. And how are you all good excited to you know make a
0:47.2	podcast with you oh are you recording I'm so sorry yeah this whole time I've been recording our conversations in a
0:56.9	sort of a Linda trip way yeah I live my life as if everything will be
1:01.4	leaked someday this is social distance, the Atlantic's
1:05.0	podcast about the pandemic. I'm Jim Hamlin, a doctor and a staff writer at the
1:08.6	Atlantic. And I'm Maeve Higgins, a comedian and a writer.
1:13.0	Mave did your mother get vaccinated?
1:16.0	She did.
1:17.0	Yeah, so both of my parents are vaccinated and they both got on very well no side effects or anything and they're so happy now but
1:27.1	they are you know wilding out I have to keep reminding them you need to wait for your
1:31.5	next one there's a 16 week wage as well which is kind of a pain.
1:35.6	So four months before they're you know totally secure but it's still great to get the first one done my goodness.
1:43.4	Oh my gosh.
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