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Maintenance Phase

Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes

COVID Conspiracies

MAR 7, 202487 MIN
Maintenance Phase

COVID Conspiracies

MAR 7, 202487 MIN

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What was missing from America's pandemic response? According to the internet, a sunshine vitamin, a malaria treatment and a whole lot of horse paste.

Thanks to Health Nerd (Substack) for helping us fact-check this episode! And thanks to Abby Mahler (Twitter,  Tiktok) for help with the research on hydroxychloroquine!

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