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Episode 322Nov 16, 2020

Would you take a coronavirus vaccine? What if it came from Dolly Parton?

Now there’s two promising vaccines, but who will trust the government enough to take them? Let’s do the numbers.

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Dolly Parton has put $1 million toward vaccine research.
Dolly Parton has put $1 million toward vaccine research.
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With the promise of another coronavirus vaccine from Moderna, in addition to last week’s blockbuster news from Pfizer, we were inspired to go back and do the numbers: Once there’s a vaccine for COVID-19, who’s actually going to take it? The answer is … not ideal. Also on the docket for today: high-stakes content moderation, low-stakes voter fraud and, yes, Dolly Parton’s own efforts to fund a coronavirus vaccine.

Here’s a list of everything we talked about today:

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