Maha comes for vaccines.

This is American Dissected.

I'm your host, Dr. Abdull-Wal-Said.

And I'm your co-host, Dr. Caitlin Jettelina.

And we're taping this on Friday, June 27th at 11 a.m.

Eastern time.

And here we go. So, Caitlin, just, just, just quick,

quick vibe check for us. How's your aura? I don't know, man. This week, ACIP, I know we're

going to get into it. Like, completely, I don't know, every day it's different. Like, one day I find hope

and then another day, it just completely bogged down. I don't know. How are you feeling, Abdul?

Yeah. I mean, look, the hard part about it is, this is kind of like watching a movie that you know

is a horror movie, but like the whole setup to the beginning of the horror movie is getting you to like the main characters. And then you know in the end, there's going to be screams. One of them is going to die. Yeah. It's like it's going to be bad news. But like at the beginning of the movie, you kid yourself into thinking that like this is just another rom-com, except for you know somebody's going to die so anyway all of that is to say

that i feel like we're now in the like end part of the horror show that we all kind of knew we

were getting into when we sat down in those seats and started eating popcorn and like here we are

this is that part so the other part of it though is is the reminder that once once the horror scenes

are done like there is a there is an end to this.

And I just think sometimes we make two mistakes to have thought that it wasn't coming.

And then the second is not to remember that actually history doesn't end after they try and gut all of

the vaccine infrastructure. And I just try and remind myself both of those things.

Yeah, I agree. I think the biggest question is like, we're going to have to do this for another

three and a half years or even longer. Like I, I mean, you're right. There's these dark periods

that happen. And that is, this is, you know, not, uh, individualized to just this moment.

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