Dr. Larry Brilliant on the Covid-19 Vaccine and What Lies Ahead

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🗓️ 15 December 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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On Monday, the first doses of the Pfizer vaccine were administered to healthcare workers in California and several other states. That same day, the death toll from Covid-19 surpassed 300,000 people. According to Dr. Larry Brilliant, CEO of Pandefense and an epidemiologist who helped eradicate smallpox, we are living through "the best of times and the worst of times." While the vaccine, which was discovered, developed and produced within a year’s time, gives hope that the pandemic will end, experts predict the U.S. death toll will continue to rise unless more steps are taken to put in public health policies on a nationwide basis. We talk to Larry Brilliant about the vaccine, its rollout and what we can expect in the months ahead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:07.3	Yesterday, California health care workers were among the first in the nation to receive the Pfizer vaccine.
1:12.6	As the country celebrated this monumental milestone, it also passed another more grim marker, more than 300,000 deaths from COVID-19. We'll talk to Dr. Larry Brilliant, the noted
1:18.5	pandemic expert and epidemiologist about the vaccine, what the next few months will look like
1:23.6	and how the Biden administration can get this virus under control. That's all next after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Michael Krasny. Yesterday, the first doses of the Pfizer vaccine were administered to health care workers in California and several other states. The same day, the national death toll from COVID-19 surpassed 300,000 people.
2:01.6	According to Dr. Larry Brilliant, an epidemiologist who helped eradicate smallpox and an expert on pandemics,
2:07.6	this moment is the best of times and the worst of times.
2:10.6	And while the vaccine, which was discovered, developed and produced in less than a year,
2:15.6	gives hope that the pandemic will end.
2:18.8	Experts predict the U.S. death toll will continue to rise through the winter,
2:22.3	unless more steps are taken to put in public health policies on a nationwide basis.
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