Vaccine Nation With Dr. Abdul El-Sayed
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🗓️ 12 October 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Senate confirmation hearings begin today for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Trump's Supreme Court nominee. The president is scheduled to return to the campaign trail today just over a week after being hospitalized with COVID-19, after his doctor released a memo saying he’s no longer contagious, but providing no other information.Â
Daily new cases of COVID-19 in the US are creeping above 50,000, which is the highest since August. Our guest host for today—epidemiologist and former Detroit health commissioner Dr. Abdul El-Sayed—answers our questions on what’s to come this winter, the long-term effects of COVID-19, and how to fight “vaccine hesitancy."
And in headlines: Nigeria’s government disbands a controversial police unit, Pakistan bans TikTok, and Jaime Harrison’s record-breaking fundraising against Senator Lindsey Graham.
Show Links:
America Dissected, hosted by Abdul El-Sayed https://crooked.com/podcast-series/america-dissected/
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, October 12th. I'm Gideon Ressik. |
| 0:08.8 | And I'm Abdul Al-Sahid, filling in for Akhili Hughes. |
| 0:12.0 | And this is what a day where we are celebrating Indigenous people's day in part by acknowledging that in New York, |
| 0:17.2 | I am on the traditional territory of the Lenape people. |
| 0:20.4 | In the Nicarbor, Michigan, I'm on the land of the Anishinaabe people, including Odawa, Ojibwe, and Budawatami, |
| 0:25.9 | and other tribes including the wine, dot, and Chani. |
| 0:29.2 | Hell yeah. |
| 0:36.7 | Abdul Al-Sahid, thank you so much for being on the show today. It is always a joy to have you here. |
| 0:41.0 | I am grateful to be here, although I have the impossible job of trying to fill in for the |
| 0:46.2 | indomitable Akhili Hughes. So I'm going to do my best and y'all forgive me for not being neither |
| 0:51.9 | smart or as funny or as genuine and kind as Akhila, but I'll do my best. |
| 0:57.4 | I think you got this. For those of you who do not know, though, Abdul is a physician and epidemiologist, |
| 1:02.3 | a progressive activist, and Detroit's former health commissioner. He also has a podcast with |
| 1:06.7 | Crooked called America Dissected, which you should listen to. Honestly, if you're not, I don't know what |
| 1:10.8 | you're doing. We've had him on the show before to talk about the pandemic, and he is back again |
| 1:14.7 | today to take some more questions from us. So we're going to get to that in a moment and then some |
| 1:18.5 | headlines, but first, the latest. Today, President Trump is scheduled to return to the campaign trail, |
| 1:24.4 | just over a week after being hospitalized with COVID-19, a post on Twitter in which he claimed that |
| 1:29.6 | he is now, quote unquote, immune, got hit with a misinformation warning as he continues to downplay |
| 1:34.4 | the virus, because of course, that's bullshit. This comes after the president's doctor, Sean |
| 1:38.7 | Conley released a memo on Saturday claiming that Trump is no longer contagious with limited |
| 1:43.3 | information beyond that, as is the way with said doctor. As for Joe Biden, he'll be making his first |
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