Hases are ticking upward in states around the country as variants pull ahead in the

race with the vaccine.

Governors meanwhile are going full steam ahead with aspirational thinking, rolling back

the all-important protection measures like masking.

Vaccine manufacturer AstraZeneca stumbled in its rollout of its vaccine efficacy data,

facing a rebuke from the government's independent data analysts and revising its numbers.

This is America Dissective.

I'm your host, Dr. Abdul-Lsaid, reminding you that normal isn't just a place in our

imaginations.

This pandemic was a shock to the system in every single way.

It pushed us all back on our heels, forcing us to take stock of everything from how we educate

our children to how we buy our food, to how we get around, and yes, how we get health

care.

Some of these systems did okay.

Because of vote by mail, for example, the 2020 election had one of the highest turnouts

in history, even though Republicans are now trying to limit voting access because their

candidate got want.

But many of our systems fundamentally failed.

Noun failed quite as spectacularly as our health care system, though.

The one system we needed most in a global pandemic.

Even being the richest, most powerful country in the world and watching your nurses and

doctors trying to care for dying people in garbage bags, imagine having the world's

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