Dr. Leana Wen on COVID-19, mask-wearing and the J&J vaccine
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In today's podcast, we sit down with Dr. Leana Wen. Dr. Wen is an emergency physician and public health professor at George Washington University. Previously, she served as Baltimore's Health Commissioner. She’s a contributing columnist for the Washington Post, CNN medical analyst, and the author of the forthcoming book, Lifelines: A Doctor’s Journey in the Fight for Public Health.
On the show, I ask Wen about whether we should still be wearing masks outside, her thoughts on our fight against COVID-19, and some of her more heterodox views about how to manage the pandemic.
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| 0:44.7 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening, and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some reasonable debate and independent thinking without some of the hysterical nonsense you find everywhere else. |
| 1:03.8 | I am your host, Isaac Saul, and in today's episode, we are sitting down with Dr. Lina Wend to discuss coronavirus and the vaccine, some of the stuff |
| 1:12.1 | going on in the COVID space right now. Dr. Wend is an emergency physician and public health |
| 1:17.9 | professor at George Washington University. Previously, she served as Baltimore's Health Commissioner. |
| 1:23.7 | She's also a contributing columnist for the Washington Post, the CNN medical analyst, and the author of the forthcoming book Lifelines, A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health. Dr. Wen, thank you so much for being here. |
| 1:36.6 | Thank you very much for having me. |
| 1:38.4 | So first, I want to thank you for your writing. Throughout the pandemic, you have struck me as sort of a heterodox, unique |
| 1:46.2 | thinker on COVID. I've seen you taking a lot of stances that I think we're a little bit outside |
| 1:51.5 | some of the mainstream, which has been really interesting for me as just a reader. And recently, |
| 1:57.8 | the reason I asked you to come on this week was because of a column you wrote |
| 2:02.0 | about President Biden's address to Congress, and you essentially made two arguments that Biden |
| 2:06.5 | had an opportunity to show the efficacy of the vaccines by having sort of a non-social |
| 2:12.5 | distance event, maybe a maskless event, and that he was basically unable to do that because of the CDC guidelines. |
| 2:19.9 | And I'm wondering if you could maybe walk our listeners through a little bit about your argument |
| 2:24.1 | and, you know, how you were thinking about this. |
| 2:27.0 | Sure. I think this starts with the overriding concern that I have at this point in the pandemic, |
| 2:33.9 | which is at the time that we're |
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