The world's greatest catch, the funniest Trump fan, and the deadliest illusions of the pandemic and the US election.
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Sources and resources:
Letter by The New England Journal of Medicine (which Stephen quotes extensively towards the end of the video):
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2029812
For the deficit under different presidents, we used the same figures as Politifact in the article below. We are really sorry that while the voiceover correctly refers to the "deficit", the word 'debt' was used on screen.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jul/29/tweets/republican-presidents-democrats-contribute-deficit/
The lasting misery of coronavirus long-haulers:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02598-6
Based on past practice, COVID is likely to be treated as a pre-existing condition if federal protections are removed:
https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/oct/07/based-past-practice-covid-likely-be-pre-existing-c/
Italian researchers found that 87% of those hospitalised with coronavirus still had at least one symptom 60 days later.
A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association: https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/26453/20200714/87-recovered-covid-19-patients-still-one-persistent-symptom.htm
An Austrian study found that 88% of participants had visible lung damage 6 weeks after leaving hospital, falling to 56% after 12 weeks:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02598-6
https://www.ersnet.org/the-society/news/covid-19-patients-suffer-long-term-lung-and-heart-damage-but-it-can-improve-with-time
Experts say coronavirus would be treated as a pre-existing condition, dramatically increasing the cost of health insurance:
https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/oct/07/based-past-practice-covid-likely-be-pre-existing-c/
Trump’s executive order does not protect pre-existing conditions:
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/10/viral-post-overstates-effect-of-trumps-order-on-preexisting-conditions/
Coronavirus cases and deaths:
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
South Korea’s economy is doing better than any other OECD country:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/08/south-korea-covid19-government-pandemic-response/
Full story of the catch:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/tgh54itx0b/grenoble-children-jump-from-fire
Compassion fade study:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0100115
Politifact checks the budget under democrat and conservative presidents (we used the slightly corrected figures, and a more recent Congressional Budget Office estimate for the deficit under Trump):
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jul/29/tweets/republican-presidents-democrats-contribute-deficit/
Jordan Klepper interviews with Trump supporters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7sJrhYJ5aQ
