Welcome. I'm Dr. Vinay Prasad. I'm a hematologist, oncologist, and I'm associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. In my professional life, I see patients, I teach trainees, and I do research in health care policy. This is Plenary Session.

Plenary Session is a podcast at the intersection of medicine, oncology, and health policy,

and you're listening to Season 3.

On this week's episode.

This week on Plenary Session, I'm joined by Matthew Smith.

He's a professor of philosophy at Northeastern University,

and he's here to talk about COVID-19 from a philosopher's point of view.

You won't want to miss this discussion.

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I'm back in plenary session, joined via Zoom by Dr. Matthew Smith. Dr. Smith is

Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. And it's a

pleasure to speak with him about many things, but the role of experts, I think, with

the diverse backgrounds in thinking about SARS-Cove 2.

Dr. Smith, it's a pleasure to have you on.

Thank you for having me on.

You're one of the few philosophers who have graced our presence, graced our stage on planetary session.

I follow you with interest on Twitter, and I think you have had a number of interesting thoughts on a variety of issues.

I wonder where we shall start.

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