We’re Taking Your Assignments: Drug Shortages and Ageism

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🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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How does ageism impact all of us? What is causing the chemotherapy drug shortage? These questions come from you, our listeners, who call in week after week with ideas for our next assignment. This week Audie speaks with CNN Health reporter Jacqueline Howard and Gerontologist Dr. Tracey Gendron about the future of ongoing pharmaceutical drug shortages and the impact ageism could have on the 2024 presidential election. If you have an assignment you’d like us to look into, leave us a voicemail at 202-854-8802 and you might just hear your voice on an upcoming episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:15.3	Hi, Adi. Hey, Adi. Hey, Adi. This is an assignment. The afternoon, I'm calling with an assignment.
0:22.4	I have an assignment that I've been thinking about a lot.
0:25.5	Thank you, Adi, for your time, and I'll look forward to talking to you.
0:30.2	Bye.
0:32.3	Hey, everybody.
0:33.4	Thank you so much for calling.
0:35.5	I know I'm always asking you to leave me voicemails with ideas
0:38.5	that you'd like us to look into for the show, and I love hearing from you. So this week,
0:43.5	we're actually going to bring you two assignments straight from our voicemail box. The first comes
0:48.8	from Mara, a first-time listener from New Jersey. And to answer her question, we asked Jacqueline
0:53.6	Howard to come back to
0:54.8	the show to help us out. So Jacqueline, just reintroduce yourself for those who don't know.
1:00.0	What's your beat? What do you do here at CNN? I'm a health reporter for CNN, and I cover all aspects of
1:06.3	health and science from cancer to maternal health issues, infectious disease outbreaks. That's my
1:14.9	beat. That's my focus. Thank you for coming on because we got an assignment that is on your beat.
1:21.5	And it comes in the form of a voicemail from a listener named Mara. We thought you could help us with it.
1:26.3	Let's take a listen.
1:32.6	Hi there. I was listening to CNN five things this morning, and they were talking about the shortage of chemotherapy drugs going on in this country. I don't know if it's just in our country
1:38.3	or if it's around the world. So my question is, why are we in a shortage? What is our government
1:43.4	doing to help those that need
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