Trump's peddling a fake Covid-19 cure

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Education, News, Society & Culture

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Jane, Dara, and Matt on convalescent plasma, FDA reform, and the politics of science. Resources: "Trump used a rare disease survivor to take a shot at the FDA" by Julia Belluz, Vox "Making American Great Again–The FDA" by Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution "Reopening schools safely is going to take much more federal leadership" by Matthew Yglesias, Vox "Straight talk on the FDA’s tumultuous weekend — and new questions about its independence" by Adam Feuerstein & Matthew Herper, Stat News One Billion Americans by Matthew Yglesias White paper Hosts: Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior Correspondent, Vox Jane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics correspondent, Vox Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublica Credits: Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:14.8	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network.
1:18.8	I'm Matthew Glacias, here with Jane Kostin and ProPublica's Darryland.
1:22.9	We were going to talk today about Donald Trump and the FDA and medical science.
1:29.8	I think originally our idea was to talk about his engagement with the vaccine approval
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