Breaking COVID News (with Dan Diamond)
In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt
Lemonada Media
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Andy turns the tables on award-winning Washington Post journalist Dan Diamond, who has covered health care policy (and Andy) since the Obama administration, and asks him about COVID and the media. Andy and Dan talk about what it's like reporting on the Biden administration after covering the Trump administration, if Andy considers himself a member of the media, and Andy's appearance as Dan's debut guest on his old podcast Pulse Check. Keep an ear out for the moments where the two of them slip back into their more familiar roles, Dan as interviewer and Andy as interviewee.
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- Read all of Dan’s reporting for The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/dan-diamond/
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- Check out Dan’s POLITICO story about how Trump changed HHS: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/31/how-trump-warped-hhs-452964
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| 1:11.9 | Welcome to the bubble. This is Andy Slavik, your host. Thank you for joining me |
| 1:16.7 | today. We are entering a completely new phase of the pandemic. At least so says the |
| 1:24.0 | government of Sweden, Denmark and Norway and other European countries who have |
| 1:30.9 | decided that it now is the time to lift all restrictions, indoor gathering, |
| 1:35.9 | large events, vaccination requirements, masking of any sort in their countries. |
| 1:42.4 | That's going to be effective at the beginning of this month. It really is a new |
| 1:48.0 | phase of the pandemic. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's born out by science |
| 1:52.5 | one way or the other. I think it's too early to know what sort of threat they're |
| 1:57.7 | going to face in their country from COVID-19, current variants or new |
| 2:03.2 | variants. But it does reflect countries I think who have been several of |
| 2:08.6 | who have been leading this way all along saying, you know, the burden is no |
| 2:13.6 | longer there on our healthcare system. And because it's along and there on |
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