Covid crisis current state (with Dr. Leana Wen)
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4.0 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
As the Delta variant of the coronavirus runs rampant across not only the US, but the world, new hot spots have emerged and hospitals are once again filling up to capacity. It appears we are right back where we started with things trending in the wrong direction. And with summer comes huge gatherings at places like concerts, vacation destinations, and weddings. The messaging on Covid seems to change daily and the public confusion grows as misinformation and disinformation spread just as fast and effectively as the virus itself. So where are we now? How do we change this downward trend? With the new school year on the horizon and the fight over masks taking place at the Federal, State, and Local levels, we check in with Doctor Leana Wen, former Health Commissioner for the City of Baltimore, and author of the new book Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health.
GUESTS:
- Leana Wen (@DrLeanaWen), Fmr. Health Commissioner for the City of Baltimore, and author of the new book Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health.
HOSTS:
- Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
RESOURCES:
- Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health. - Here.
- Washington Post Contributor Profile page - Here.
- Current Coronavirus Map & Statistics via John Hopkins University - Here.
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| 0:00.0 | Think back to a month ago, it was July 4th weekend and while the country hadn't quite |
| 0:06.1 | reached President Biden's goal for vaccination, all signs on the COVID front looked incredibly |
| 0:12.0 | positive. New cases were way down, hospitalization and deaths had plummeted, restaurants, gyms, |
| 0:18.4 | movie theaters were all starting to reopen and parents were eagerly looking forward to |
| 0:23.0 | sending their kids back to real, not virtual school in the fall. |
| 0:27.6 | Today, with the Delta variant running rampant in hot spots across the country and new cases |
| 0:33.6 | skyrocketing to levels we hadn't seen since last February, lots of questions are out there. |
| 0:40.2 | What went wrong and what to make of the seemingly confusing messaging from the CDC about what |
| 0:45.2 | members of the public should do about it? |
| 0:47.2 | We'll talk to one of the country's foremost experts on the subject Dr. Lena Wen, the |
| 0:51.6 | former health commissioner of Baltimore and the author of the new book Lifelines, Addoctor's |
| 0:56.6 | Journey in the Fight for Public Health on this episode of Skull Duggery. |
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