Vaccine Nation
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🗓️ 24 November 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On today's New Statesman podcast, Stephen Bush and Ailbhe Rea gather to discuss the latest news from the Oxford vaccine trial, and what impact a return to normality in 2021 ought to have on government policy in the here and now. Then, in You Ask Us, they take your questions on what Keir Starmer's endgame is in tackling Labour's antisemitism problems.
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| 0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
| 0:08.0 | 10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again. |
| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. |
| 0:31.0 | There are around 48,000 new cases of lung cancer every year in the UK, but it doesn't affect everyone equally. Incident rates are far higher in deprived areas and there's too often a post-code lottery |
| 0:36.1 | when it comes to that all-important early diagnosis. |
| 0:40.0 | The New Statesman Podcast is sponsored by MSD, a research intensive global bio pharmaceutical company |
| 0:46.2 | active in several key areas of global health, including immunization and oncology. |
| 0:51.8 | They've recorded a special sponsored episode with the New Statesman |
| 0:54.9 | podcast in which thought leaders explore how the UK can and must tackle health |
| 0:59.8 | inequalities to deliver early diagnosis and treatment. |
| 1:04.0 | Listen to the episode now. |
| 1:05.6 | Look for lung cancer inequalities in the New Statesman podcast feed. On today's episode, we ask why the government isn't pivoting any of its COVID policies in response to the vaccine news, |
| 1:30.0 | and you ask us, what is Kirstormer's end game with Labour anti-Semitism. |
| 1:40.0 | So we've woken up this morning to the news that the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine is 70% effective |
| 1:48.0 | and 90% effective when a smaller half dose is given first and then followed up with a full dose. |
| 1:57.0 | So pretty good news. |
| 1:58.8 | We're also speaking on the Monday morning of lots of announcements from the Prime Minister being trailed in the press. |
| 2:07.8 | We're expecting an announcement shortly on the new tier system for England and on Tuesday we're expecting an |
| 2:16.3 | announcement about arrangements for Christmas and then on Thursday we are expecting |
| 2:20.7 | an announcement on which areas will be put into which tears. |
| 2:25.5 | Stephen, even though this isn't the official you ask us section, I was thinking we could |
| 2:31.3 | talk about a question that was sent in sort of pulling in these different |
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