Hey everyone, Artie here just to introduce today as Unlock. Now I know this is a little bit different from usual.

Typically Unlocks replace main feed episodes for the week, and this week we released a great interview with Liot Ben Moshe that I would highly recommend you listen to.

But we wanted to make sure that this one got out from behind the patron feed as soon as possible, so we decided to double up this week.

The episode you're about to hear is our patron episode from Monday, January 16th.

So some stuff at the top is older, principally our intro segment about Ashish Jha

complaining about hospital capacity, though if you haven't heard it yet, it's still a great

argument for why we still need universal masking.

Mostly, though, this episode is about what will happen when the official declaration of a

public health emergency ends and why the Biden administration shouldn't send COVID vaccines

and therapeutics to the private market, which, since we recorded this, this conversation

inspired a piece B and I just wrote in Teen Vogue, so a link

is in the description to that if you want to check that out. Without further ado, we'll see you

in the patron feed on Monday, and if you appreciate our coverage, consider becoming a patron at

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local library, and follow us at Death Panel underscore. So today, R.D. Abby and I are here, and we're going

to check in on the latest on COVID and the Biden administration,

including new reports speculating on their plan to end the public health emergency.

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