A Former Surgeon General on the Coronavirus Pandemic (Rebroadcast)
Deep Background with Noah Feldman
Pushkin Industries
4.4 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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This week, President-elect Joe Biden named Vivek Murthy as one of the co-chairs of his COVID-19 Advisory Board. We spoke to Dr. Murthy on September 30th and wanted to re-share that conversation with you today. As the coronavirus surges on and news about a possible vaccine develops, this conversation is more relevant than ever.
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| 0:41.4 | From Pushkin Industries, this is deep background, the show where we explore the stories behind |
| 0:47.1 | the stories in the news. I'm Noah Feldman. This past week brought two major developments in the fight against COVID. |
| 0:56.1 | First, Joe Biden was elected president, meaning we're going to have a new team in Washington |
| 1:00.6 | and new leadership working on the issue. |
| 1:03.7 | Second, Pfizer announced early results of its test of its vaccine in human subjects and |
| 1:10.1 | suggested that some 90% of the people who took |
| 1:13.1 | the vaccine were successfully protected against COVID. We'll be addressing both of these |
| 1:19.2 | developments in episodes soon. Before we do that, however, today we wanted to reshare with |
| 1:26.1 | you an interview with Dr. Vivek Morty. |
| 1:29.9 | Dr. Morty is one of the people just named by Joe Biden to be one of the co-chairs of his |
| 1:35.7 | anti-coronavirus task force. In the interview, which we recorded on September 30th, |
| 1:41.8 | Dr. Morty also discusses the question of how we will get people |
| 1:45.6 | to trust in a vaccine when and if the vaccine actually begins to work. In other words, what we |
| 1:52.0 | have for you in this interview is one of the heads of Joe Biden's coronavirus task force |
| 1:57.5 | laying out the policies that he will use when vaccines begin to work. |
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