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🗓️ 26 February 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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0:00.0 | You're listening to Shortwave from NPR. |
0:07.2 | This song from 2007, The Cupid Shuffle, is pretty big on TikTok. |
0:15.9 | TikTok is a social media app where users make and share short videos. |
0:20.1 | Many of them using and reusing viral sounds or song clips. |
0:24.3 | This one is pretty popular with people making dance and exercise videos. |
0:31.5 | But on January 10th of this year, Nicole Baldwin got a different idea. |
0:36.8 | I had just posted my first video two days prior, so I was very new on TikTok and I'll admit |
0:46.0 | I enjoy The Cupid Shuffle. |
0:48.0 | And so you don't have to admit it. |
0:50.8 | It's not something that you're ashamed of. |
0:52.8 | I know. |
0:53.8 | Nicole is a pediatrician near Cincinnati. |
0:56.6 | She has a parenting blog. |
0:58.2 | She's super active on social media. |
1:00.6 | A lot of the stuff she posts online is about kids and family health. |
1:04.9 | So she decided to do a post using The Cupid Shuffle about vaccines. |
1:09.6 | So you know, listening to that song and thinking, okay, how do I do this? |
1:13.8 | Nicole filmed herself doing a little dance and posted a text box in the video that says |
1:18.9 | vaccines prevent and then on each beat, measles, moms, |
1:23.5 | frubella, polio, pertussis, hepatitis, influenza. |
1:27.8 | New Macau, Gazemovles, all of those different diseases that vaccines prevent |
1:31.8 | and at the end of the video, it just says vaccines don't cause autism. |
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