Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm San Francisco, the middle of the week. As you know, we don't typically do these, but given the urgency of this conversation, I wanted to share this with you all today.

Our guest is Dr. Ashisha. with you have

all today. Our guest is Dr. Aishe Cha. He's the Dean of the School of Public Health at Brown

University. You have likely also seen Jaa on your television screens as a regular contributor to MS NBC,

CNN, PBS News Hour, and Good Morning America.

And if you are a listener of this show you have heard him here in the past.

In this most recent talk I caught up with JAW to discuss the rollout of the vaccines, the potential of dangerous variants,

best mask practices, the Biden Harris administration, and a whole lot more.

It is always a pleasure to sit with an expert as level-headed and

decent as Dr. Jaw. And I'm grateful for his time and for his service. I hope this talk is as useful for you as it was for me.

Thanks for being here and I hope you're staying safe. A new year and yet here we are once again Dr. Jaa.

Am I like number one of the list of number of recordings you've done with anybody?

In my heart? Not in your hearts.

I dare not wish for that. I just mean purely numerically yes in my heart maybe oh it's

possible it's possible if we can why don't we start with what's kind of on everyone's mind right now, aside from vaccinations, which is the potential of this variant.

Can we start by unpacking what you wrote yesterday?

Sure, absolutely.

So we're all hearing about these variants, right?

The UK variant, the South Africa variant, the Brazil variant.

So even been talking about an LA variant.

And one of the things that I wanted to start with was remind people where these variants are coming from and where they're not coming from.

We're not hearing about a Japan variant or a New Zealand variant, because those places don't have big outbreaks.

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