Now what Dr. Fauci is referring to is of course the level of protection that we need

such that our healthcare system is not overwhelmed by people sick with COVID.

And if we got to that level at 75% or so of people were immunized, it would dramatically

reduce the burden on the healthcare system, the hospitalizations, the serious disease,

we could resume social activity and seeing each other and seeing our grandkids,

kids going to school without the concern that the reductions in social distancing would lead

again to the healthcare system being overwhelmed.

This is Sarah and Beth, your listening to Pant suit politics, the home of grace filled political

conversations.

Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of Pant suit politics. This is a very special episode

that we are thrilled to bring you with Dr. Christopher Byr. We're going to share that interview in

just a moment about vaccines and epidemiology and all the new technologies with regards of vaccines

coming our way in 2021. But before we get started, we got a little a little business to clear up.

As we start to look at the end of the calendar, we wanted to lighten things up before we take two

weeks off, which we always do at the end of the year. We just feel it's important to give ourselves

and all of you a break, especially after a year like the one we've just had. So there's going to be

a little levity for you here on Tuesday with our Ask Us Anything episode. We received so many questions

of such a wide variety. And so that was so much fun to record and we hope that you really enjoy it.

And then on Friday, we're going to walk through the calendar of the year and really think about

what we've learned in 2020, how the year has impacted us, how we look back with a little bit of

hindsight on some of the things that happened in January alone, which was a really intense month

before we got into the pandemic. So kind of some processing episodes next week. And then we will

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