Pantsuit Politics

So many of you wrote in asking us to talk about Plandemic, the viral video making its way around social media. We break down its content, intention, and what you need to know as you talk to the people in your life who are watching it.

Topics Discussed:

• Processing Plandemic (01:48)
• Ahmaud Arbery (50:45)

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Episode Resources:

• Georgia family demands arrests 2 months after son shot dead (AP)
• Ahmaud Arbery's parents call for arrests after 'modern lynching in the middle of the day' (The Guardian)

Plandemic:

• These are the '10 plain truths' about the coronavirus pandemic, according to former CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden (CNN)
• Fallout From Fatigue Syndrome Retraction Is Wide (The New York Times)
• Fact check: Hospitals get paid more if patients listed as COVID-19, on ventilators (USA Today)
• Hospital Payments and the COVID-19 Death Count (FactCheck.org)
• Hospitals get paid more to list patients as COVID-19. (PolitiFact)
• Estimated Cost of Treating the Uninsured Hospitalized with COVID-19 (KFF)
• Royalty payments to staff researchers cause new NIH troubles (U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institute of Health)
• March-In Rights Under the Bayh-Dole Act (Congressional Research Service)

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