298 - Why The US Needs a Marshall Plan for Vaccines With Congressman Jake Auchincloss
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The race between vaccines and variants has to be won globally, but at the current rate, much of the world won't reach herd immunity until 2023. Congressman Jake Auchincloss from Massachusetts talks with Stephanie Desmon about the immediate need to address manufacturing bandwidth and the opportunity for the US to lead production. They also discuss the US's obligation to maintain a healthy and thriving economy by investing in global public health infrastructure, and how this could help restore the US's image as a moral leader in times of crisis. You can read Auchincloss's CNN op-ed here: https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/29/opinions/marshall-plan-for-global-vaccinations-auchincloss/index.html. Please note: This conversation was recorded on April 5.
KEYWORDS: vaccine distribution; viral mutation; supply chain
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| 0:50.4 | Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Congressman Jake Ockincloss, a Massachusetts Democrat, |
| 0:56.4 | about how the United States is placed on the world stage depends on rapidly expanding COVID-19 vaccine |
| 1:02.9 | manufacturing beyond what we need and sharing vaccines with low and middle-income countries. Let's listen. |
| 1:10.8 | Congressman Jake Ockincloss, |
| 1:12.4 | thanks so much for joining me. Thanks for having me on. So we're going to talk today about vaccine. |
| 1:18.4 | And we keep hearing in the news about the vaccine rule in the United States, where everyone's |
| 1:24.6 | anxious at the moment to get vaccines. And a third of the people have already had a shot. |
| 1:30.7 | And the president says, |
| 1:31.7 | everyone who wants one will soon have access to one. |
| 1:34.5 | The situation is different in other places in the world. |
| 1:37.5 | And I'm wondering if you could chalk me through the situation as you see it. |
| 1:41.5 | The most important paradigm for this pandemic right now is the race between vaccinations |
| 1:47.8 | and variants. We are getting shots into arms at a rapid clip in the United States and in Great |
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