Lessons From HIV On Ending The COVID Pandemic

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🗓️ 6 May 2022

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The world has come a long way since the COVID-19 pandemic began. There are now vaccines, at-home tests, masks and treatments. With all of these tools available, why is COVID still here?

Health policy correspondent Selena Simmons-Duffin talks to Scientist-In-Residence Regina Barber about what we can learn from the public health advocates working to end the HIV epidemic, how those lessons may translate to ending COVID and why having the scientific tools isn't enough.

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0:00.0	You're listening to shortwave from NPR.
0:04.8	Hey short waivers, it's Regina Barber here today with Selina Simmons-Duffin Health Policy
0:11.2	Correspondent.
0:12.2	Hey Regina, so I am here because as the COVID-19 pandemic has worn on, I keep hearing a certain
0:18.5	refrain and I'm sure you've heard it too.
0:20.8	We have the tools.
0:21.8	We have the tools in protocol.
0:22.8	We have the tools we need to protect.
0:24.5	We have the tools.
0:26.2	And by tools I'm assuming they mean there are vaccines, at-home tests, and masks, treatment,
0:32.3	all in ample supply.
0:33.3	Right, exactly.
0:34.3	So, the funny thing is when I started hearing this refrain from the Biden administration,
0:38.7	I thought, I have heard that before.
0:41.4	And to be specific, I heard it in 2019.
0:45.4	We have the tools.
0:47.0	This is an historic opportunity.
0:49.1	That is Alex Azar.
0:50.2	He was then the Health Secretary in the Trump administration and the tools he's referring
0:54.5	to are the ones that exist to end the HIV epidemic.
0:58.2	Oh.
0:59.2	So, President Trump mentioned this initiative to end the HIV epidemic in his 2019 State of
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