What Next: Is Biden Flunking COVID?

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🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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President Biden, unlike his predecessor, was able to spend some time planning his COVID-19 response. One year in, is the plan working? Guest: Dan Diamond, national health reporter for the Washington Post. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, is that a pumpkin spice latte?
0:03.2	No, it's the pumpkin spice latte.
0:05.9	Starbucks?
0:06.9	Obviously.
0:07.9	You know, I once got so obsessed with pumpkin spice, I only wore orange for a month.
0:11.3	Ugh, that's nothing.
0:12.6	I once got so obsessed I got a pumpkin shaming into my hair.
0:15.0	Oh yeah?
0:16.0	Well last year I cured outside Starbucks for a week.
0:18.3	And my tent was a shape of a pumpkin?
0:19.8	Well, I'm changing my name to pumpkin spicy.
0:24.9	The Starbucks original is back.
0:26.7	Go all out pumpkin spice, subject to availability while stocks last.
0:36.9	Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States.
0:41.4	When President Biden stepped in front of the microphone this week for a press conference
0:44.7	marking his first year in office, he seemed committed to accentuating the positive.
0:50.6	Oh folks, thanks for being here.
0:55.4	He started off with a long list of his achievements.
0:58.6	Everything from the unemployment rate to the vaccination rate got thrown in there.
1:03.0	And for the first time in a long time, this country's working people actually got a raise.
1:09.0	Actually got a raise.
1:10.0	People at the bottom, 40%, so their income go up.
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