SIO306: What Does the Massachusetts Outbreak Say About Vaccine Effectiveness?
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
You might have seen the very scary headlines about a Massachusetts outbreak in which 74% of those infected were vaccinated. That sounds terrifying! But is it? What does actual science person Dr. Lindsey Osterman make of these numbers? The news is actually far better than you might think! Find out why!
In a quick first segment, Lindsey gives us a hilarious recap of how thoroughly Sam Harris accidentally parodied the hell out of himself!
Links: WaPo article on Provincetown Outbreak, Original CDC Report on Provincetown Outbreak, Bear Week, CDC data, Delta's dominance in US, NYT Tracker of MA COVID cases, COVID-19 Vaccine Report, from MA Dept of Public Health, Tegan and Sara Study
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to Series Inquiries. Only this is episode 306 back at it after a little |
| 0:17.7 | bit of vacation for me. I guess for the normies it wasn't, but for patrons and me. How's |
| 0:22.5 | it going, Lindsay? |
| 0:23.5 | It's me. |
| 0:24.5 | It's great. |
| 0:25.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:26.5 | No, I assumed you still did an episode while I was gone, but just for yourself. |
| 0:29.5 | But nobody listened to it. Yeah, I did. |
| 0:31.3 | Well, you got uploaded as the problem. |
| 0:33.1 | Oh. Oh, is that how that works? |
| 0:34.7 | Yeah, no, you can't just talk into the mic. It doesn't, it's not like it's hooked into |
| 0:38.1 | them. |
| 0:39.1 | The listeners directly. |
| 0:40.6 | That's how I thought it worked at first. I was like, oh, yeah. |
| 0:42.9 | This is why you handled the podcast excitedly. |
| 0:45.9 | I bet the episode you did was delightful though. Well, just. |
| 0:48.7 | It really was, yeah. |
| 0:50.0 | All assume it was. So much to talk about today. I am really excited. Here's what my plan |
| 0:55.5 | is. My plan is for Lindsay to sit us all down |
| 0:59.4 | and tell us what the fuck is going on. That's my plan for this episode because when |
| 1:03.2 | it comes to the Delta variant and COVID and like, whether or not you can get it when |
| 1:08.2 | you're vaccinated now and spreading all this stuff, I have seen so much contradictory |
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