Is It OK to Hug Your Family after the Vaccine? (with Julia Marcus)
In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt
Lemonada Media
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Bob calls up infectious disease epidemiologist Julia Marcus to discuss risk, a concept many of us thought more about in the past year than ever before. Julia, a Harvard professor and contributor to The Atlantic, talks about why people take risks, the danger in stigmatizing risk-taking, and how to weigh the benefits and costs surrounding risk during the pandemic. They also cover pandemic fatigue and how Julia envisions the return to a new normal. Plus, the first Andy update from Lana!
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Check out these resources from today’s episode:
- Read Julia’s latest article for The Atlantic, “Vaccinated People Are Going to Hug Each Other:” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/giving-people-more-freedom-whole-point-vaccines/617829/
- Check out all of Julia’s COVID-19 Atlantic articles here: https://www.theatlantic.com/author/julia-marcus/
- Read what Bob and other experts have to say about what’s safe to do post-vaccine in this Washington Post article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/02/01/vaccinated-people-precautions/
- Learn more about Julia’s work with Harvard Medical School’s Department of Population Medicine: https://www.populationmedicine.org/jmarcus
- Learn more about Dr. Bob Wachter and the UCSF Department of Medicine here: https://medicine.ucsf.edu/
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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. |
| 0:28.0 | So I got a box in the mail the other day, and you know, I'm not usually thrilled with the box usually. |
| 0:35.0 | It's not always for me. This time it was from well before.com and I opened it up and there were a whole bunch of masks, |
| 0:42.0 | including what they call their premium 3D Pro KNN-D5 mask, which I started wearing when I was in crowded places |
| 0:50.0 | and became stable for me during the winter and during the holidays. |
| 0:54.0 | And with a new variant circulating, I don't really want to get COVID. I can't take packs. |
| 0:59.0 | Love it. So there's also other viruses, there's fires, all kinds of reasons why having a whole box of masks around made me really, really happy. |
| 1:07.0 | So I am always happy when the box shows up as it's now started to do. |
| 1:12.0 | They actually are sold through a subscription, which is kind of a game changer because you can work through your masks |
| 1:17.0 | and then you always know that the KNN-D5s are going to show up again. So thank you well before. |
| 1:24.0 | Go to well before that's W-E-L-L-B-E-F-O-R-E.com slash in the bubble or use the code in the bubble for an extra 10% off site-wide. |
| 1:35.0 | Lamanata. The good news is even though I'm only talking to him a few minutes a week, it seems I get to see him on TV three times a week |
| 1:48.0 | and I can replay it if I get lonely or something. And he shaved the beard. That was huge. |
| 1:57.0 | Welcome to In the Bubble from The Front Lines, I'm your host, Bob Wachter. That was Lana Slavitt. |
| 2:11.0 | As you know, this used to be Andy Slavitt's show and will be again in four months, but Andy's gone. |
| 2:17.0 | It seems like he's been gone for years, but it's actually only been 10 days. |
| 2:21.0 | It would be nice to talk to Andy, but he's now working about 27 hours a day. So we couldn't get him, but we're lucky to have Lana join us for our first genuine Andy report. |
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