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Teaser - Selling School Reopening w/ Rachel Cohen and Abby Cartus

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4.8588 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear the full episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/46938261/ (Teaser) We speak with journalist Rachel Cohen and epidemiologist Abby Cartus about the media's rush to emphasize scientific certainty on covid transmission in schools, from a recent JAMA commentary headlines mislabeled as "CDC guidance" to a Rockefeller Foundation report based on Emily Oster's dashboard. Rachel Cohen is a freelance journalist and contributing writer for The Intercept. Follow her on twitter @rmc031 Abby Cartus is a PhD in perinatal epidemiology. Follow her on twitter @AbbyCScience Runtime 1:11:23 DP EP 224, 1 February 2021 🧬

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0:00.0

what we do is in the next two months is so important for the next like for just the course of

0:06.4

this pandemic. But what I thought was so sort of frustrating, it just goes to what you're saying

0:12.0

with targeted measures. Like there's this idea that it is more practical and more feasible that

0:19.1

we're going to somehow be self-administering at home rapid test to ourselves

0:25.1

every single day nationwide than it is to do like a paid lockdown.

0:30.2

We literally don't have the chemicals to process those tests.

0:33.4

Like we don't have any reagent.

0:35.3

How would we fucking do that?

0:36.9

We also like at the time when

0:39.2

everyone's saying, oh, you know, the virus is getting worse, everyone should really upgrade to N95s or K-95s

0:45.1

get better masks. Like nobody has those masks. Like teachers don't have them. Like I mean, obviously

0:51.1

medical professionals do and like some people do, but like we, you, this,

0:55.3

the idea that we're going to somehow like that this is, and the decision that it's going to

1:00.9

happen or happen at speed, it drives me crazy. But I thought the other thing was like, you know,

1:05.4

they quoted Michael Mina. And I just thought this saying, this is a public health issue. And if we don't empower the public to deal with it, we won't be able to defeat it.

1:14.6

And I just thought, like, that's the most, you know.

1:19.1

Yeah.

1:19.5

No, it's really, really frustrating because not only is like, yeah, it's all of these, like,

1:25.1

technocratic recommendations that actually are completely disconnected from like the reality of what's going on.

1:31.1

Right.

1:31.3

Like nobody can get KN95s.

1:33.5

Nobody can get a vaccine slot.

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