COVID Quickly, Episode 17: Vaccine Lies and Protecting Immunocompromised People

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🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American ’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between. You can listen to all past episodes here .

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0:00.0	Imagine you, you in a nice comfy seat with your hands behind your head, taking in the views,
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0:30.3	Hi and welcome to COVID Quickly, a scientific American podcast series.
0:43.4	This is your fast track update on the COVID pandemic. We bring you up to speed on the science
0:47.9	behind the most urgent questions about the virus and the disease. We demystify the research
0:52.7	and help you understand what it really means. I'm Tanya Lewis. I'm Josh Fishman. And where
0:57.7	scientific American senior health editors. Today we're going to discuss the latest lies about
1:03.0	vaccines not working and ways to make them work better for immunocompromised people.
1:10.0	Former Secretary of State Colin Powell died this week of complications from COVID. He was vaccinated
1:15.9	and big media figures used that for a round of terrible disinformation about vaccines.
1:20.8	His death is sad and the way some people lied about it is more than that. It's infuriating. They
1:26.0	left out a crucial piece of information about general Powell's medical condition in order to
1:30.2	make his death seem like a vaccine failure. It wasn't. Tucker Carlson, who hosts a political
1:35.6	talk show on Fox, made a big deal of saying that Powell was fully vaccinated. That tells us he said
1:41.8	that you've been lied to. Vaccines may be highly useful for some people, but across the population,
1:47.4	they do not solve COVID. He added that vaccinated people die and Powell is hardly the only example of that.
1:54.8	Other talking heads on his network echoed that point as did politicians such as far to Congressman
1:59.9	MacGates. But Carlson left out a key point that was common knowledge. Powell had multiple myeloma,
2:06.7	a blood cancer that eliminates the very immune cells that COVID vaccines are supposed to stimulate.
2:12.7	Without those cells, myeloma patients cannot produce enough antibodies to stop the virus.
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