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COVID's fall surge has yet to arrive, but a rise in flu cases and a COVID outbreak in Europe indicate it may be getting closer.

President Biden signs an executive order to reduce prescription drug prices, and scientists believe there's a pathway to eradicating malaria, but it's complicated.

This is America Dissected. I'm your host, Dr. Abdul Al Sayed.

I like to think I'm funny, but my brand is really just dad jokes, which most people call bad jokes and I call rad jokes.

I'm a touch to earnest for comedy, but I like to think I'm okay at explaining hard concepts.

Well, at least you all seem to think so, or you're just here for the rad jokes.

But in today's crowded media environment, it's not enough to just be accurate or clear.

You have to offer something more to cut through the noise. Education must also be entertainment.

If there's one thing our COVID response got wrong, it's that public health authorities never really adapted to the environment in which they were operating.

For too long, public health has assumed that our expertise was our authority, and that that authority implied that we'd be listened to.

But that's not enough anymore. In a world where information has to increasingly be entertaining to break through, the challenge of moving real information against disinformation falls on folks who can both be entertaining and informative at the same time.

Comedy is best when it highlights the absurdity in the things we take for granted every single day.

It's a lens that magnifies that absurdity and forces us to look at it. Our instinct is to laugh, because otherwise, well, you might cry.

America's approach to health is one of those absurdities that it's easier to just laugh at if it didn't create so much pain and heartache for so many.

Whether it's a federal bureaucracy forced to bear the worst pandemic in a century under the leadership of the most ineffective and poorly prepared president in as much time, or a health care system that forces millions to go without care,

so that 300 CEOs can make a collective $4.5 billion in a single year.

Over the past decade, few comedians have been as effective at leveraging their skills to explain and inform as Adam Conover.

His hit TV show, Adam Roons Everything, used basic humor to force conversations about some of the most frustrating, weird, and downright absurd things about our society.

His podcast, Factually, engages experts, including yours truly, on some of America's most pressing topics, and he's out with a new series on Netflix called The Jeward,

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