Skeptic Check: Anti-Vax

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

They were developed in a matter of months, and they’re 90 percent effective at stopping infection. They protect against serious illness or death. And yet, roughly one-third of Americans refuse to get the Covid vaccine. How can this be? How could something that our ancestors would have considered a miracle be refused by so many? The reasons are many, and not all are because of an anti-vax attitude. We talk to health professionals to learn what’s stopping the public from stopping the pandemic. Guests: Paul Offit – Pediatrician and Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Tanagne Haile-Mariam – Professor of Emergency Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine Nsikan Akpan – Former Health and Science Editor for New York Public Radio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.
0:05.0	Tech moves fast.
0:08.0	So keep pace with the Daily Crunch Podcast from Tech Crunch.
0:12.0	With new episodes every day, this podcast Crunch new tech, regulations, and more.
0:23.0	Listen to Tech Crunch Daily Crunch now,
0:25.5	wherever you get your podcasts.
0:27.6	That's Tech Crunch Daily Crunch,
0:29.9	wherever you get your podcasts.
0:37.0	Get ready to geek out. The Wired Science Podcast explores all the latest and greatest in science,
0:42.0	everything from strange diseases and biological breakthroughs
0:45.6	to interesting tech and mysteries in outer space.
0:48.6	Listen to Wired Science today wherever you get your podcasts.
0:52.2	That's Wired Science, wherever you get your podcasts. That's Wired Science wherever you get your
0:54.6	podcasts. The year was 1955 and I was in grade school. Now I wasn't really reading the newspapers
1:11.0	at that age but I could certainly hear the radio and TV stories
1:14.0	about Jonas Salk's discovery.
1:17.9	An historic victory over a dread disease is dramatically unfolded at the University of Michigan.
1:22.8	Here, scientists usher in a new medical age
1:25.1	with the monumental reports that prove the salt vaccine
1:27.9	against crippling polio to be a sensational success.
1:38.0	A vaccine to prevent polio. As a kid I had often gone door to door,
1:41.0	soliciting for the March of Dimes.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Big Picture Science, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Big Picture Science and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.