Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. As you know, the H
Speaker 1: one N one, or swine flu season is upon us.
Speaker 1: How serious is the disease. Well, it's especially dangerous to
Speaker 1: children and pregnant women, and contracting it has been known
Speaker 1: to turn help the young men into old Jewish ladies.
Speaker 1: Our chief medical correspondent gotha virus during our recent trip
Speaker 1: to Afghanistan. Sante said it was the sickest he's ever been.
Speaker 1: You were quite sick as well. The cough was the
Speaker 1: worst cost I've ever had, and it like even hurt
Speaker 1: my heart. While I was coughing, I could barely.
Speaker 2: Take a couple of steps without feeling really lightheaded.
Speaker 1: And again those just profound chills. See I did not
Speaker 1: have a fever. I had explosive diarrhea. How about you
Speaker 1: tell me my underwear looked like the mudflaps on a
Speaker 1: swamp buggy Back to you Anderson. But of course, the
Speaker 1: main symptom, as always fear.
Speaker 3: A strain of flu that nobody has ever seen before.
Speaker 1: Health officials around the world are scrambling to contain the outbreak.
Speaker 4: There are twenty confirmed cases in five different states.
Speaker 5: Forty now confirmed.
Speaker 1: A pandemic is imminent.
Speaker 2: Fears grow of a global pandemic like the nineteen sixty
Speaker 2: eight outbreak that killed a million people.
Speaker 1: Ah nineteen sixty eight, I remember that was the summer
Speaker 1: of back. But this time, just as the virus is
Speaker 1: about to metastasize a breakthrough.
Speaker 6: The FDA today approved swine flu vaccine.
Speaker 1: Worse hell Zeus, the Greek god of timely pharmaceutical research.
Speaker 1: Back to your homes, people, nothing to see here. The
Speaker 1: H one N one vaccine will finally become available.
Speaker 5: Is it safe?
Speaker 1: We finally contained the swine flu outbreak? But can we
Speaker 1: contain the doubt break? Questions about the vaccine? Should you
Speaker 1: get it?
Speaker 7: Should you give it to your kids?
Speaker 8: Is it safe?
Speaker 1: Will the vaccine harm your kids or pregnant women?
Speaker 5: They worry the vaccine was rushed and not adequately tested.
Speaker 1: Many parents are concerned because the vaccine got to market
Speaker 1: so fast. Is it safe? Has it been tested? Do
Speaker 1: we really know what the government wants to inject in
Speaker 1: our bodies?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: And one other thing, will we have enough vaccine?
Speaker 5: What are you doing us?
Speaker 1: Is this a deadly poison? Is the vaccine a deadly poison?
Speaker 1: And are we running out of it?
Speaker 9: Can it?
Speaker 1: Does anyone develop a vaccine that inoculates against scaring. Perhaps
Speaker 1: no one embodies this fear mongering ethos better than doctor
Speaker 1: Glennathan Beck, MD.
Speaker 3: Will you take your chances with the swine flu or
Speaker 3: the vaccine? Will you take the vaccine? Give it to
Speaker 3: your children? How much do you trust your government? I
Speaker 3: think that's the main question.
Speaker 1: When wait, when did that become the main I always
Speaker 1: thought the main question was does the vaccine promote the
Speaker 1: growth of H one N one antibodies that could help
Speaker 1: ward off infection. I think the virus is more interested
Speaker 1: in killing you than the government is. But I guess
Speaker 1: I'm just one of those pasteurized milk drinkers, you know.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm sure the vaccine isn't perfect. Science certainly isn't perfect.
Speaker 1: But does everything have to be so spook? O'reiley? You've
Speaker 1: you've become fox news? Is you've become fox news? Is
Speaker 1: the same guy? What's your main question?
Speaker 5: So now we have this swinefle vaccine?
Speaker 4: All right, so it comes to your town? Are you
Speaker 4: going to get the swinefles?
Speaker 3: I've decided not to share it. If I'm going to
Speaker 3: get it or not?
Speaker 1: Really, you talked about your ask surgery on YouTube, and
Speaker 1: now you're holding back on it. Now you've decided it's
Speaker 1: time to be a bit more discreet and laylight.
Speaker 4: Come on back, because I'll come on beck.
Speaker 3: I think this is important for everybody to make their
Speaker 3: own decision. This is injecting something into my body. And
Speaker 3: there's great arguments for and agains.
Speaker 1: He's right on the fore side. It protects against the
Speaker 1: potentially fatal disease, was found safe and clinical trials, and
Speaker 1: can keep you from infecting those most vulnerable to the flu.
Speaker 1: Whereas on the against side, the governments have to get you,
Speaker 1: sciences have to get you. And oh look behind you,
Speaker 1: oll right back. We move on now to the subject
Speaker 1: of health, and believe it or not, if you've been
Speaker 1: seeing long lines of elderly people standing outside in the
Speaker 1: cold lately, it is not all you can eat buffet related. Rather,
Speaker 1: it was a product of the flu vaccine shortage fever
Speaker 1: gripping the nation. With sermon short supply, State and local
Speaker 1: health departments have been forced to allocate supplies only to
Speaker 1: priority patients like the elderly, healthcare workers and babies. In
Speaker 1: cases where there's still not enough vaccine to go around,
Speaker 1: babies and old people will ration the shots based on
Speaker 1: a best of three takedowns. You know what's interesting That
Speaker 1: baby looks genuinely surprised. I don't understand what's happening. It's
Speaker 1: gotten so bad. At a children's medical center in Colorado,
Speaker 1: thieves stole sixty two boxes of the vaccine, which this
Speaker 1: worker was not too happy about.
Speaker 9: Could not believe that somebody would actually steal a flu vaccine.
Speaker 1: Really, you couldn't believe that. I guess really, that's the
Speaker 1: difference between New York and Colorado. I live in New York.
Speaker 1: I once saw a guy get his prosthetic legs stolen
Speaker 1: while he was walking. Noo ooh, tough town. The shortage arows.
Speaker 1: The shortage arose after one of the two companies that
Speaker 1: make the vaccine had to throw out its entire match
Speaker 1: due to bacterial contamination. Heinstein is, of course twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: but maybe we shouldn't have given the vaccine contract to
Speaker 1: Vincent Gallows House of Vaccines now. I just feel it's
Speaker 1: not the cleanest place to manufacture vaccines, he is haunting.
Speaker 1: As the shortage threatened to become a campaign issue, Health
Speaker 1: and Human Services Secretary of Tommy Thompson sought to preempt panic.
Speaker 10: We've successfully worked through vaccine supply problems in the past,
Speaker 10: and we're doing so this time as well.
Speaker 8: We need all of us to take a deep breath.
Speaker 1: Don extail. Don't done extail. We don't have any vaccine.
Speaker 1: It's the extailing. Take a breath hold it. Vice President
Speaker 1: Dick Cheney offered his own unique diagnosis for the vaccine
Speaker 1: crisis or is he prefers to call it flu portunity
Speaker 1: campaigning in West Virginia, Cheney observed, quote, the problem we
Speaker 1: have run into producing vaccine is not a very profitable business.
Speaker 1: That's a dead end street. Next thing you know, you're
Speaker 1: building houses for seniors and all you got is a
Speaker 1: bunch of warm, dry, old people not in the show
Speaker 1: for it. Yeah, we're going to get attacked. Welcome back.
Speaker 1: If you watched, If you watch this week's CNNT Party Americasm,
Speaker 1: you know that. Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Backman scored some points
Speaker 1: in the debate on Republican front runner Governor Rick Perry
Speaker 1: concerning his state mandated HPV vaccine order.
Speaker 9: I'm a mom of three children, and to have innocent,
Speaker 9: little twelve year old girls be forced to have a
Speaker 9: government injection through an an executive order is just flat
Speaker 9: out wrong. I'm offended for all the little girls and
Speaker 9: the parents that didn't have a choice.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm offended for advantage backman, and she will
Speaker 1: give that advantage back in three two.
Speaker 9: There's a woman who came up crying to me tonight
Speaker 9: after the debate. She said her daughter was given that vaccine.
Speaker 9: She told me her daughter suffered mental retardation as a
Speaker 9: result of that vaccine.
Speaker 1: And now I am repeating that assertion unchecked. Assuming there
Speaker 1: is a body of evidence to back this up. I'm
Speaker 1: sure there is right For more on the vaccine controversy
Speaker 1: were joined by Daily Show senior women's issues correspondent Kristin Shaw.
Speaker 8: Kristin thing you.
Speaker 1: Want to go I to see what is What is
Speaker 1: your take on this whole vaccine issue is? What is
Speaker 1: the vaccine money?
Speaker 6: Well, Frankly, I'm just excited people are talking about women's health,
Speaker 6: anything to distract us from the tably pull arising circumcision debate.
Speaker 6: By the way, I vote yes, not crazy about turtlenecks.
Speaker 6: You what do you think?
Speaker 1: How does the vaccine work?
Speaker 8: How does the well?
Speaker 1: John?
Speaker 6: When a man loves a woman very much, gives her
Speaker 6: a special close hug with this penis. It's called that's
Speaker 6: the street turn.
Speaker 1: Let's give ahead to after the hugging the vaccine part.
Speaker 6: That okay, when two people who love each other, you
Speaker 6: can get an FTD called the human pebloma virus in women.
Speaker 6: HPV has been proven to cause cervical cancer. Fortunately, now
Speaker 6: there's a vaccine called guardi cel that prevents HPV, which
Speaker 6: is good because one and two sexually active people will
Speaker 6: get HPV in their lifetime and I don't have it.
Speaker 6: So don't worry. John, I said it's sexually active.
Speaker 11: You're scuder.
Speaker 6: Minute's so true.
Speaker 1: I was a little scared. You know. It seems ironic.
Speaker 1: Michelle Bachman came out against the vaccine for women, while
Speaker 1: Rick Perry the Man was sort of a standing for
Speaker 1: I guess women's health fighting HPV.
Speaker 6: Well, it's not really that strange. In some ways, it's
Speaker 6: a regional issue. Minnesota doesn't have to worry about HPV
Speaker 6: as much because they wear so many layers. Finding genitals
Speaker 6: is next to impossible. Take it from someone who waddressed
Speaker 6: at to Saint Paul, Hooter's okay, but I'm willing to
Speaker 6: overlook Congresswoman Bachmann's regional bias because she's the last female
Speaker 6: candidate in this race. That's why I printed up six
Speaker 6: thousand Bachman from mich Cold dead vagina bubber tips.
Speaker 1: Is that your truck? Because that you drive a truck
Speaker 1: with with truck nuts on them.
Speaker 6: They're lady nuts and I happen to like them.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, but isn't saying the HPV vaccine causes mental retardation.
Speaker 1: Experts are pretty well debunked it. That is, by all accounts,
Speaker 1: just flat out wrong.
Speaker 5: It's not even something that has been suggested.
Speaker 6: There's no evidence that the vaccine causes mental retardation.
Speaker 1: What was the no, no, no, do not say his knee?
Speaker 6: Oh now there goes the market for my Michelle Bachman.
Speaker 6: I've got an eye on your vagina condoms.
Speaker 1: No, that's that's creepy. That's pretty creepy.
Speaker 12: I'm not sure those are those.
Speaker 1: They looked like they were facing the cameras. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure those are.
Speaker 6: John. Now, I'm torn. On one hand, Governor Perry is
Speaker 6: taking care of Texas vagina's but he did it with
Speaker 6: a government mandate to force it on young girls. It's
Speaker 6: like he's trying to turn Texas into some kind of
Speaker 6: Kunani state. Michelle Bachman, on the other hand, is arguing
Speaker 6: for a woman's right to choose, but only if that
Speaker 6: choice is getting cancer. The truth is neither one is
Speaker 6: the strong pro badge candidate women are looking for, But
Speaker 6: you know who. I feel the worst for the children.
Speaker 1: Because they'll be more likely to get cervical cancer.
Speaker 6: Well that, but also because they'll never get to play
Speaker 6: with my Michelle Bachman big mouth, billy vagina, Take.
Speaker 12: Me to the Queenic, Take me to the Queenic.
Speaker 1: Did you just turn a big mouth billy bass and
Speaker 1: a singing vagina?
Speaker 6: Yes, and I have ten thousand of them in my
Speaker 6: good CHRISTI bog Off at once is a nightmare.
Speaker 11: Welcome back to the Daily Show. A big challenge of
Speaker 11: the COVID pandemic has been well a breathing and b
Speaker 11: convincing people to get vaccinated. But one place in America
Speaker 11: thinks it has found a solution. Daisi Lidik went to
Speaker 11: find out.
Speaker 5: This last year has shown us that Americans don't trust
Speaker 5: any authority figures anymore, the government, scientists, doctors, even the
Speaker 5: English language. Maybe that's why we're ranked forty six and
Speaker 5: COVID vaccination rates. Nice job, Mauritius, But there is one
Speaker 5: group that can still convince us, social media influencers. At
Speaker 5: least that's what the Guildford County Health Department was betting
Speaker 5: on when they partnered with forty one local social media
Speaker 5: influencers to spread some fresh facts facts.
Speaker 4: Our communities are more likely to follow guidance from people
Speaker 4: that they truly trust, so we decided to do an
Speaker 4: influencer marketing campaign.
Speaker 5: But you're the expert, why aren't they listening to you?
Speaker 8: Well, over to last year and a half, a lot
Speaker 8: of individuals became overnight public health experts, So I think
Speaker 8: that it also depends on personal ideology, on who's an
Speaker 8: expert in who's not.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I get it. Sometimes it's better to watch the
Speaker 5: amateurs do the job rather than the pros. It's just
Speaker 5: more authentic and natural that way.
Speaker 4: I don't think that we thought about it that way.
Speaker 5: And as a self licensed juice therapist, I am all
Speaker 5: about avoiding public health experts. But why would influencers use
Speaker 5: their powers to fight COVID instead of their regular no
Speaker 5: makeup Mondays, throw back Thursdays and fro you.
Speaker 7: Most of the time. I'm just talking about food. So
Speaker 7: it's like, you guys can check this pizza out if
Speaker 7: you guys want to. But now I felt like I
Speaker 7: actually had a role that was beyond myself, you know.
Speaker 7: So the caption of that one just says, Hey, I
Speaker 7: got my vaccines. You guys should probably get yours too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, but why are you wearing a shirt?
Speaker 7: We just got to get this vaccine together because we're
Speaker 7: a team and that's the only way we're going to
Speaker 7: get back to normal.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's it.
Speaker 10: We've had a lot of cases where medical professionals have
Speaker 10: looked aside African Americans problems that they may come in with,
Speaker 10: and for a lot of people in my community, it's
Speaker 10: just all encompassing, no trust in that. But as an influencer,
Speaker 10: I can influence my audience to go through the steps
Speaker 10: of getting vaccinated.
Speaker 5: I'm like the sock puppet.
Speaker 12: I guess for those experts that they can speak to,
Speaker 12: that comes off a little bit less big brothery.
Speaker 5: A sock puppet. That's a good idea, get the vaccine.
Speaker 5: The influencers were obviously buying the hashtag backs life themselves,
Speaker 5: and they've been spreading the word on their accounts, but
Speaker 5: is anyone hashtag listening to hashtag what they're hashtag saying?
Speaker 7: On Instagram, I have nearly twenty thousand followers, about two thousand.
Speaker 5: I have like one thousand, four hundred followers, basically just
Speaker 5: like a public account.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, if you're going to take advice from
Speaker 12: someone on the internet, are you more likely to take
Speaker 12: it from someone that you know? It's a community. It's
Speaker 12: not like I am Jesus and you are all my followers.
Speaker 5: To be fair, Jesus had twelve followers, so I do
Speaker 5: have a little more than that more followers than Jesus.
Speaker 5: Easy there, John Lennon. But is all this nano influencing
Speaker 5: only micro effective?
Speaker 4: We believe that those particular influencers connect on a more
Speaker 4: personal level with their community. Compared to some of the
Speaker 4: larger ones that can have hundreds of thousands of followers,
Speaker 4: they might not have that really.
Speaker 8: Personal and intimate connection.
Speaker 5: So you're using the least viral influencers to stop the virus.
Speaker 5: You can say that, Okay, so how effective is this program?
Speaker 5: Are we talking Pfizer level effective or are we talking
Speaker 5: like Johnson and Johnson? It's better than nothing.
Speaker 4: So we think that the campaign has been incredibly successful.
Speaker 4: Within two days of that content being posted, we have
Speaker 4: also seen the increase in vaccination rates.
Speaker 5: That's good news. Unfortunately, these micro influencers are up against
Speaker 5: heavy anti vax propaganda casting doubt on the vaccine.
Speaker 4: How many of you guys are going to be among
Speaker 4: the first to inject this experimental vaccine that's been rushed
Speaker 4: into your arms?
Speaker 5: And this anti vax content is more infectious than covid itself.
Speaker 4: With a social media and other platforms, it's really easy
Speaker 4: to fall into this world of personal truths.
Speaker 5: So maybe the most effective way to clean up the
Speaker 5: mess that social media has made is with more social media.
Speaker 5: Like a hair of the dog when you have a
Speaker 5: hangover and you drink more alcohol to make it feel better,
Speaker 5: or like when you're trying not to catch a virus
Speaker 5: and you treat your body with tiny amounts of the
Speaker 5: virus so you don't get it. What's what's that called vaccination?
Speaker 12: Yes, that's it.
Speaker 5: If the only thing to stop bad influence on social
Speaker 5: media was good influence, I wanted to give our influencers
Speaker 5: one more shot at going viral.
Speaker 12: Okay, if you're tired of staying inside, I'm very tired
Speaker 12: what's up.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
Speaker 12: We want our people to just stay live. Now's the
Speaker 12: time to rule up your sleep schy. Now's the time
Speaker 12: to go get the vaccineaccine, vaccine, Get the vaccine vaccine.
Speaker 5: It's okay, we'll workshop it. We'll get there.
Speaker 2: Let's begin with the COVID pandemics. Yes, remember that next
Speaker 2: week will be four years since the day we started
Speaker 2: to take it seriously because Tom Hanks got it. Oh no, no, Tom,
Speaker 2: take chat instead. But everything's fine now. The CDC just
Speaker 2: issued new guidance saying that you don't even have to
Speaker 2: isolate if you get COVID anymore.
Speaker 11: That's right.
Speaker 2: You can go ahead and keep coffing into people's faces
Speaker 2: as long as you feel a little bad about it afterwards.
Speaker 2: It really feels like no one's trying to avoid COVID anymore, well,
Speaker 2: almost no one.
Speaker 1: A German Man has puzzled scientists after he deliberately got
Speaker 1: more than two hundred COVID nineteen vaccinations two hundred and
Speaker 1: seventeen to be exact, over two and a half years.
Speaker 1: That's a shot every four days roughly.
Speaker 13: Of course, scientists are wondering what the effect was on him.
Speaker 13: First of all, he didn't report any vaccine related side
Speaker 13: effects at all. Secondly, his immune response did show an
Speaker 13: increase in immune cells, but not necessarily a better or
Speaker 13: worse immune response. And finally, guys, he never got SARS
Speaker 13: kobe too, the virus that causes COVID SRY.
Speaker 2: Two hundred and seventeen shots, an approach also known as
Speaker 2: the immune system bukake. If you laugh at that you
Speaker 2: are discussing, I mean, I mean, I know anti vaccines
Speaker 2: are stupid, but let's not overcorrect here, all right, I
Speaker 2: will say this. Though a lot of people did their
Speaker 2: own research, this man became his own research. That's that's
Speaker 2: commitment and also a nice change of pace to see
Speaker 2: Germans doing human experiments on themselves. And also, hey, I'm
Speaker 2: glad that he did stuff and he major effects. But
Speaker 2: sadly for this guy, doctors still haven't found a cure
Speaker 2: for being weird as far.
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