Two friends reach out across the Atlantic to try and make sense of it all: American politics, history, and society; Trump-ism and the COVID crisis. Mike is a Stanford professor, Johannes is a German journalist. Where are the United States headed? Is there hope for the future?
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episode 15: #15 AstraZeneca and Other Cheap Shots
Big news for The Americanist crew (well, for one half of it): Mike got vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine in California. Time to celebrate this milestone with a Japanese whiskey, while Mike shares his take on the much-talked about AstraZeneca vaccine that German authorities seem to struggle so mightily with. What does any of that have to do with singer-songwriter J. J. Cale? All of that and more in the latest episode of THE AMERICANIST.
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Mentioned in the show:
AstraZeneca:
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/03/astrazeneca-vaccine-blood-clot-issue-wont-go-away/618451/
Bradford Hill:
https://obsstudies.org/reprint-of-hills-the-enviroment-and-disease-association-or-causation-and-comments/
Book about vaccine rumors and hesitancy:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/stuck-9780190077242?cc=us&lang=en&
J.J. Cale - Cocaine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmD_HcOcfU