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The Al Franken Podcast

Andy Slavitt & Laurie Garrett on “The End of the Covid Emergency?”

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4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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0:14.3

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0:19.5

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0:21.0

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0:25.0

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0:32.0

Hey everybody, we got the gang together, Andy Slavitt and Laurie Garrett, with whom we've

0:39.7

been talking COVID since early 2020, a little over a million American deaths to go.

0:47.4

But it's over.

0:49.5

The official COVID emergency in the United States will be declared over on May 11th.

0:57.0

Andy Slavitt, whom you'll remember, led the Center for Medicare and Medicaid for the

1:01.2

last two years of the Obama administration.

1:03.6

And during the first four months of the Biden administration was the senior adviser to

1:07.8

the White House COVID response team during that time vaccinating 140 million Americans.

1:15.5

Something some perspective on where Americans are right now.

1:18.9

Andy says during our conversation, very early in the conversation, he says that two years

1:26.0

into the Spanish flu of a century ago, that people just had had enough of it and stopped

1:35.0

taking precautions about not getting sick.

1:38.5

And that the third year they had the greatest number of fatalities.

1:43.1

So speaking of fatalities now, Laurie Garrett, whom you may remember, won the prestigious

1:50.4

Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism.

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