Keep Sharp with Dr. Sanjay Gupta
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Bill talks to Dr. Sanjay Gupta about his new book Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age, available at Amazon here. Plus his thoughts on the new vaccine and how many lives we lost by the government's response to Covid-19. Gupta is the CNN Chief Medical Correspondent and Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Emory University Hospital.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to the Bill Press pod and a very special guest, Dr. Sanjay Gupta. |
| 0:13.6 | Over the last year, as we've all struggled with a pandemic, one of the people we've all come to depend on is Sanjay Gupta. From his position as |
| 0:23.5 | senior medical correspondent for CNN, Sanjay's been an honest voice about just how serious the |
| 0:29.9 | coronavirus is and a reassuring voice about how we can overcome it together. In addition to appearing so frequently on CNN, Sanjay is also a practicing neurosurgeon, |
| 0:42.8 | performing about 250 brain surgeries a year. |
| 0:46.9 | And on top of that, he's written a very important new book called Keep Sharp |
| 0:52.7 | on how we should all make special efforts to take care of and improve |
| 0:57.2 | our brain, just like we care for the rest of our body. We were lucky to get Dr. Gupta to slow down |
| 1:05.6 | just long enough to join us here on the Bill Press pod to talk about the latest on COVID and the key message of his new |
| 1:13.5 | book. Before we get to the book, I do want to ask you a little bit about the most serious public |
| 1:19.8 | health crisis that any of us have experienced. But there was some breaking news, Sanjay, |
| 1:24.3 | with Johnson and Johnson vaccine being approved. This is a single dose. So |
| 1:28.3 | could this be a game changer? What do you think? I think it's a really important development. |
| 1:33.1 | It's a, it's a really good vaccine for accomplishing what I think most people want out of a vaccine, |
| 1:39.6 | which is you take the vaccine and you're far less likely to get very sick, far less likely to require |
| 1:45.9 | hospitalizations, and far less likely to die. That's what most people want out of a vaccine |
| 1:50.8 | and accomplish those things. It wasn't as good as some of the other vaccines, at least numerically, |
| 1:56.7 | at preventing the milder illness. So, you know, people could still have more mild or moderate symptoms with this as compared |
| 2:04.0 | to the other two authorized vaccines. |
| 2:06.1 | But it's a really good vaccine. |
| 2:07.6 | It's interesting, Bill, because it's one shot, like you mentioned, it also can be stored |
| 2:12.1 | from a temperature standpoint at the same temperatures that most pharmacies have existing freezers. So, you know, |
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