Ask an Expert: Dr. Bob Wachter 👨‍⚕️

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🗓️ 3 April 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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👨‍⚕️On today's special Ask an Expert, we're joined by Dr. Bob Wachter, Chair, UCSF Dept. of Medicine, author, and guest host of In the Bubble! 🏖 He's answering questions around the pandemic and the Covid vaccines. Plus, some listener-submitted questions. 🏖 What will the Summer be like? 🏫 When can kids go to school without masks? 💉 Does it matter which vaccine you get? When does he think kids will be able to get the Fauci Ouchie? Plus, much more! Dive in, you don't want to miss out! 💯 Want even more awesome content from The Ten News? Join The Ten'ers Club today! 📝 Sign up for The Ten News-letter! 📸 Join us on Instagram 👨‍⚕️ Learn everything there is to know about Dr. Bob Wachter ✍️ Find a full copy of the transcript for today's episode here Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
0:07.0	From Fauci-O-Chi's to vaccine passports, today the 10 News gets extra to find out what's up with the coronavirus pandemic and vaccines.
0:23.4	I'm Bethany Van Delft and this is the 10 News Gets Extra.
0:29.0	Vaccine supply is increasing and schools are reopening and just this week, Pfizer, one of the
0:35.3	vaccine makers, announced that their vaccine is showing 100% effectiveness
0:41.0	rate against COVID in their tests with 12 to 15 year olds.
0:46.5	100% is a big deal.
0:50.4	Imagine getting 100% on all the Zoom quizzes you took this year.
0:55.1	Does this mean that the pandemic is coming to an end?
0:58.9	I sure hope so.
1:01.2	In this special ask-in expert, we went to one of the smartest doctors we know, Dr. Bob
1:07.6	Wachter, chair of the University of California, San Francisco's Department of Medicine to find out.
1:19.1	Thank you so much.
1:20.7	This is so exciting.
1:21.6	Thank you for agreeing to hang out with us at the time news.
1:26.2	Oh, what a great pleasure.
1:28.8	It's wonderful. Thanks.
1:35.4	Okay, so you're a doctor. You've written books. You've been awarded prestigious honors.
1:40.9	And you're a hospitalist. You're also at University of California, San Francisco.
1:43.0	Can you talk about what you do there?
1:48.0	Yeah. My day job is I run something called the Department of Medicine. And so I oversee about a thousand doctors at a big university hospital.
1:53.0	So what's fun about it is I get to be a doctor, but I also get to be a leader.
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