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Introducing: Doubt · Stephanomics

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  Speaker 1: Have you found yourself confused over the past year. While
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  Speaker 1: face masks are currently required in some parts of China
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  Speaker 1: to prevent the spread of the deadly coronavirus here in
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  Speaker 1: the US, the Centers for Disease Control is not yet
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  Speaker 1: recommending them for the public. Tonight, the CDC says double
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  Speaker 1: masking offers more protection against COVID nineteen. Donald Trump tells
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  Speaker 1: us should that we've taken I'm not taking it. I
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  Speaker 1: want to encourage everyone to get the vaccine. It is safe.
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  Speaker 1: Has it sometimes been difficult to figure out the truth?
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  Speaker 1: I had really been struggling with it, trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: out if I trust the vaccine once I sawed that video,
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  Speaker 1: if I didn't know it was an R and A
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  Speaker 1: what else don't I know about it? You know? But
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  Speaker 1: it was also that in the back of my head,
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  Speaker 1: why saw fast. I'm not against vaccines at all. I
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  Speaker 1: think there's a place for certain ones, but I also
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  Speaker 1: think some of them are not things that would give
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  Speaker 1: my children. We're living in uncertain times, but we do
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  Speaker 1: know one thing for sure. The only way we're going
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  Speaker 1: to get out of this pandemic is mass vaccination. The
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  Speaker 1: problem is right now, many Americans just don't trust vaccines.
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  Speaker 1: What if I take it and something happens to me
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  Speaker 1: down the road. I'm torn between both, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: really am. I'm torn between both. This skepticism didn't actually
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  Speaker 1: start with the rollout of vaccines, or in March, or
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  Speaker 1: even with the rise of Donald Trump. This moment has
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  Speaker 1: been brewing for a very long time. I'm Kristin V. Brown,
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  Speaker 1: the host of Doubt, a new series from Bloomberg Prognosis.
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  Speaker 1: In this podcast will trace the rise of vaccine skepticism
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  Speaker 1: in America to show how we got here and where
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  Speaker 1: we're going. There are forces that have been working behind
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  Speaker 1: the scenes to erode our trust vaccines. Today, their message
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  Speaker 1: has gone mainstream and it threatens our ability to fight
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  Speaker 1: the coronavirus. We need everybody to release their fear from
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  Speaker 1: their brains, get rid of their masks, goes so hug
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  Speaker 1: people and absolutely say no. Doubt launches on Mark Subscribe
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