Welcome To The Vaccination Club
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🗓️ 10 March 2021
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| 0:00.0 | This is Rough Translation from NPR. |
| 0:03.6 | I'm Gregory Warner. |
| 0:05.4 | So maybe you saw this sketch on Jimmy Kimmel that came out just before Valentine's |
| 0:08.8 | Day. |
| 0:09.8 | She was a guy presenting his girlfriend with a small velvet box. |
| 0:13.4 | This year, get her the one thing she's been waiting for. |
| 0:17.0 | And then he opens the box. |
| 0:18.4 | The COVID-19 vaccine. |
| 0:20.5 | It's a vaccine by her. |
| 0:21.7 | From Pfizer. |
| 0:23.7 | Don't just be her somebody. |
| 0:26.2 | Be her antibody. |
| 0:28.7 | As the quickest way to the heart. |
| 0:30.6 | That sketch came out on the Thursday. |
| 0:32.7 | Then a few days later, something weird happened. |
| 0:35.5 | A news channel in Lebanon called OTV ran this clip as though it were a serious pharmaceutical |
| 0:41.1 | ad campaign running in the United States. |
| 0:43.2 | Yes, it did. |
| 0:44.2 | It ran as a serious news story in the main newscast for OTV. |
| 0:49.4 | NPR's correspondent Ruth Sherlock is based in Beirut. |
| 0:52.4 | It's so happened that Valentine's Day was the day that Lebanon started giving the Pfizer |
| 0:57.0 | vaccine to people. |
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