The Dr. Fauci Holiday Special

PODCAST-19: FiveThirtyEight on the Novel Coronavirus by FiveThirtyEight.com

Dec 22, 202016:08Science & Medicine

On the first day of Christmas, PODCAST-19 gave to me ... an interview with Dr. Fauci. Dr. Anthony Fauci stops by the pod to talk about post-vaccine life, the new variant of the virus in the U.K. and which celebrity he'd...

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