How We Avoid the Whole Greek Alphabet (with Jeremy Farrar)

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

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4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Listen in as Andy gets a Global Pandemic 101 course from Dr. Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust. Farrar gives a clear picture of the effort and urgency of vaccinating the globe, the vital role of the US on the world stage, and the criticality of the next 270 days. Plus, hear their plans to force the issue with world leaders.

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Here’s the latest CDC data on vaccine effectiveness pre- and post-Delta: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7034e4.htm?s_cid=mm7034e4_w
Learn more about the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator: https://www.who.int/initiatives/act-accelerator
Keep up with everything the Wellcome Trust is doing to fight COVID-19 globally: https://wellcome.org/
Check out Jeremy’s Financial Times article about the long-term societal impacts of COVID-19: https://www.ft.com/content/031b42a7-e2b3-43ae-9139-d31a4cb37498
Find a COVID-19 vaccine site near you: https://www.vaccines.gov/
Order Andy’s book, Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250770165

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0:00.0	It's CVS Health, they know the women's physical, mental, and sexual health matters.
0:05.0	That's why they're offering new women's health services available nationwide seven days a week.
0:09.0	From heart health, blood pressure, and cholesterol screenings available at miniclinic locations,
0:14.0	to virtual birth control consultations and visits with a board certified provider,
0:18.0	women's health is it an afterthought. It matters.
0:21.0	It's CVS Health. Health here happens together. Learn more at CVSHealth.com.
0:27.0	Lemonade.
0:31.0	The end of 22 is way too late.
0:38.0	I mean, just think of where we are today, August 21, end of 22 is 18 months away.
0:42.0	We've only 18 months into this pandemic, and the pandemic's going faster today than it was through much of 2020 and 2021.
0:49.0	If we wait till the end of 2022, we won't be on Delta variants,
0:54.0	we'll be on some other Greek letter that's way down the track of Delta variants.
0:59.0	Remember, we've had five pandemic changing variants in the last six to nine months,
1:05.0	and that isn't going to slow down evolutionary.
1:08.0	So end of 22, which is what the G7 cobbled together, is just way too late.
1:13.0	You'd be facing immune escape variants in America if we wait that long.
1:17.0	We've got to lay out a much, much more aggressive timetable.
1:39.0	Welcome in the bubble. I'm your host, Andy Slavin.
1:42.0	And I am really interested to see what you think of today's episode.
1:47.0	It's actually probably the episode where I've learned the most and come away with maybe the most.
1:56.0	I don't know if I'm an easy feeling, but certainly guilty feeling.
2:00.0	Jamie Ferrar is a wonderful, amazing person to talk to.
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