From The Silo: COVID at Two: Where Did We Go Wrong?

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Originally Aired: January 14, 2021 It has been two years since COVID-19 started hitting the headlines globally. As the new omicron variant is causing surging caseloads across America and around the world, it seems as though the end of this moment is very far away. What mistakes have we made? What should the Biden administration be doing next? How does the pandemic connect to the fight to protect democracy? What does the Supreme Court decision on the vaccine mandate mean for the fight against the virus? To answer these and other pressing questions, DSR Host David Rothkopf spoke with Kavita Patel of the Brookings Institution and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Laurie Garrett. Don't miss this timely conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	9, 12, 10, 28, 2, 23.
0:17.9	This is Deep State Radio, coming to direct from our super secret studio in the third
0:24.2	sub-basement of the Ministry of Snark in Washington, D.C. and from other undisclosed locations
0:31.4	across America and around the world.
0:35.0	Hi and welcome to a new episode of the podcast.
0:38.9	The first of the year when we've got our gang together here, including Dr. Kavita Patel
0:44.6	of Brookings Institution, practicing physician, formerly of the Obama White House who I haven't
0:49.5	seen in like a month or two, I know.
0:52.3	It's been a long time, how are you going to be there?
0:54.3	It is, doing great, well, I mean not doing great, but doing great at not doing great.
0:58.8	Yeah, well, that's what America does right now.
1:01.4	And of course we also have with us, our friend Lori Garrett, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
1:07.7	who is joining us from a guessing by virtue of her background that I could see here,
1:13.4	Brooklyn.
1:14.4	Yep, Brooklyn it is.
1:16.5	And how are you today, Lori?
1:18.4	I'm okay, I mean, you know, as Kavita was hinting, we're all in dark times, we're all in
1:24.3	stressed times.
1:26.3	And so our goalpost for saying I'm okay has dropped to a level that three years ago would
1:32.9	have been panic stage, you know, but now it's like, oh yeah, you know, everybody I know
1:37.3	I was all micron, you know, I'm fine.
1:40.0	Well, it's kind of, you know, it's kind of one of the reasons I thought this would be
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