Dr. Jon LaPook, CBS Chief Medical Correspondent, Talks to Bob About Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Sheds Some Light on Common Medical Misinformation

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🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Dr. Jon LaPook of CBS News joins Bob for an insightful conversation on the Covid-19 Pandemic and the amazing efforts scientists and doctors are making to help people during this time. He explains how the variations of Covid-19 vaccines were developed and just how crucial the need for change is.

Jonathan LaPook, M.D., is the chief medical correspondent for the CBS EVENING NEWS. He is also Professor of Medicine at the NYU School of Medicine and an internist and gastroenterologist at NYU Langone Medical Center, and the executive director of the NYU Langone Empathy Project, which seeks to promote a culture of empathy in medicine.

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0:00.0	A gift to find jewelry holds so much meaning. It can really mark a moment. That's why I love
0:05.6	being a jewelry consultant at Shane Company. I get so much joy helping our customers find something
0:11.1	special for the people they love. Like the customer in the military who wanted to propose to his
0:16.6	girlfriend before he was deployed, we rushed to get the engagement ring ready for him,
0:21.8	and he was overwhelmed with gratitude. Or the customer who survived cancer. The whole time she
0:27.9	was in treatment, her grown daughter was by her side taking care of her. She told us her daughter
0:33.5	had a heart of gold. And to show her appreciation, she gave her a 14 karat gold heart necklace.
0:40.4	Another customer came in to get his wife a gift to celebrate their growing family. They were
0:45.6	adopting a baby. He picked out a beautiful necklace with the child's birthstone. It's precious
0:51.6	moments like these that make my job so meaningful. Now you have a friend in the jewelry business.
0:57.4	Shane Company and Shaneco.com. Hey everybody, it's Bob and this is Bob Sagitts here for you
1:03.9	because that's the thing that you clicked on. This is a really important episode I feel because
1:10.4	there's not a lot of people that we can rely on fact sometimes about what's going on with the
1:16.6	coronavirus with and don't go, oh, I don't want to hear about that. This is a man who Dr. John
1:23.1	LePuke. He is the chief medical correspondent at CBS News. He is an amazing man. I have the pleasure
1:29.5	of knowing him. He is a doctor. He could have chosen not to be a doctor anymore, but he is not
1:37.8	only a professor of medicine at NYU School of Medicine and the main professor of gastro and
1:46.5	neurology, which I say every five minutes at NYU Lagoon Health, and he's a practicing physician.
1:53.8	He practices every day and he actually does it. He doesn't just practice. He is an amazing man. He's
2:02.6	one Emmy Awards. He has won the Peabody Award for his broadcasting, but more than that, he is a
2:10.5	humanitarian and he knows a hell of a lot about what's going on. He's in constant contact with
2:17.2	everybody at the CDC. He's always because of his being literally the chief medical correspondent at
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