The Consequences of Vaccine Nationalism

Social Distance

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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While wealthier countries reopen, India and the rest of the world face a terrifying new peak in the pandemic. How did it come to this? What can be done? And with new variants and limited supplies, how does the global vaccine strategy need to change to prevent more coronavirus spikes? Staff writer Yasmeen Serhan joins Jim and Maeve to explain. Jim’s piece: One Vaccine to Rule Them All Yasmeen’s piece: India's COVID-19 Crisis Is the World's Crisis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi Jim. Hi, I'm,
0:05.0	Hi, Mave. How are you?
0:09.0	I'm okay. How are you? You're okay? Good.
0:12.0	Yeah, good. Let's tell the people what they want to hear.
0:17.6	This is social distance, the Atlantic's podcast about the pandemic. I'm Jim Hamblin, a doctor and a staff writer at the Atlantic.
0:23.7	And I'm May Higgins, I'm a comedian and I'm a writer too.
0:27.3	Well there's so many big stories that are happening right now. I don't know where to begin.
0:31.5	But we do have an update to what we talked
0:34.2	about last week with outdoor masking regulations. The CDC just updated their
0:38.6	guidelines. Are they in line with what you were saying last week? Yeah I think so it seems the
0:45.0	CDC listened to the podcast and changed their minds and so policies are
0:50.3	updated accordingly. No it's that the recommendation is now that Americans who are are updated
0:53.0	now that Americans who are fully vaccinated
0:56.0	no longer need to wear mass outdoors
0:59.0	if they're walking, running, hiking, or biking alone
1:02.0	with members of their household or if they attend small outdoor gatherings.
1:07.6	Okay.
1:08.6	Does that sound reasonable to you?
1:10.6	Yeah, that sounds good.
1:11.6	Do you worry about like different directives for vaccinated and
1:14.8	unfaxinated people? Yeah, that's where it can get complicated, right? It's very much an honor
1:20.2	system. Yeah. I guess if you're having...
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