We Were Three - Trailer

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Serial Productions & The New York Times

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🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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A three-part series from This American Life producer Nancy Updike. When Rachel McKibbens’s father and brother died suddenly last fall, two weeks apart, from Covid, she’d had no idea her father was sick, and no idea her brother was dying. They were unvaccinated, but the story of what happened started long before that. All three episodes of "We Were Three," a new show from Serial Productions and The New York Times, are available now wherever you get your podcasts.

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0:00.0	Last fall, Rachel McKibben's got a message from her brother, Peter, at about midnight.
0:08.1	My brother sent me a text that said, I've been too distraught to tell you, but dad passed
0:15.2	away today at 2.42 pm because of a text.
0:22.5	A text telling her that her father had been dead for hours.
0:26.9	She figured car accident.
0:28.5	He knew he'd been driving a lot looking for work.
0:31.3	She called her brother.
0:32.6	I said, Peter, what is happening?
0:34.2	What happened?
0:35.8	And he explained that they had gone to a funeral and he said, I never should have let
0:40.4	dad go to the funeral with all those vaxed people.
0:44.4	Vaccinated people.
0:45.7	Her brother believed that COVID vaccines weren't just dangerous for people who got the vaccine.
0:51.6	Vaccinated people were dangerous to be around if you were unvaccinated, like him and his
0:56.2	dad.
0:57.2	They lived together.
0:58.2	They'd been living together for years.
1:00.9	On the phone with her brother, Rachel learned that her father had been sick for over a week
1:05.5	COVID.
1:06.9	Not only had Peter not told her about it, he also hadn't taken their father to the hospital,
1:11.5	hadn't called 911.
1:13.6	Then another thought hit her.
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