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4.8588 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/89127060 Bea, Artie, and Abby discuss how to assess the pandemic as we stare down yet another wave with little to no reliable information, and look at some pervasive tropes in recent reporting on covid that project a sense of unearned certainty. We also discuss Vinay Prasad's recent open appeal to get people to stop reporting positive covid tests to schools and employers, and Biden's masking joke. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:33:35, 11 September 2023 🧬

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So we are seeing an increase in hospitalizations for COVID-19.

0:12.0

Recently, up to 10,000 people being in the hospital with COVID a week.

0:17.9

However, as a reminder, last year, we saw up to 40,000 hospitalizations a week at our

0:23.7

highest point last August. You're certainly going to see infections. You'll get some people

0:28.6

that even though you'll find the vulnerable will fall by the wayside. They'll get infected,

0:34.0

they'll get hospitalized, and some will die. It's not going to be the tsunami of cases that we've seen.

0:39.3

But they keep telling me because this has to be 10 days or something, I've got to keep wearing it, but don't tell them I didn't have it on when I walked in.

0:47.3

All right? The

0:57.0

The Welcome to the Death Panel.

1:16.3

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1:18.6

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1:20.9

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1:33.1

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1:38.6

underscore. So just a quick housekeeping update. Next week, we will be releasing the recordings from the Socialism Conference sessions that we did.

1:47.1

I know a lot of folks have been asking, and I just wanted to give everyone an update on when to expect those.

1:52.1

So stay tuned for that next week.

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So today, I am here with my co-hosts, Artie Veer Kant.

1:57.9

Hello.

1:58.5

And Abby Cardis.

1:59.9

Hello.

2:00.6

And once again, I'm finding myself starting an episode with a framing that long-time

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