Meet the New CDC Director (with Rochelle Walensky)

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

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4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Incoming CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky gives her first major interview. She and Andy discuss her background as a young girl who wanted to grow up to be financially independent and how that turned into a storied career that led her to the pinnacle of public health. She discusses the challenges she faces in this epic role and her priorities for the CDC. There’s never been a more important time to have a strong leader like Dr. Walensky in charge of this agency.

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Check out these resources from today’s episode:

Read Rochelle’s opinion piece in The New York Times about her priorities as CDC Director: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/opinion/rochelle-walensky-cdc-director.html
Watch President-elect Joe Biden introduce his health team nominees, including Rochelle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVFUIrWMkXA
Learn more about the Biden administration’s plan distribute 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses in his first 100 days: https://www.npr.org/2021/01/08/955005344/biden-vows-to-distribute-100-million-covid-19-vaccine-doses-in-his-first-100-day
Find the CDC’s latest guidance on COVID-19 here: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/
Pre-order Andy’s book, Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response, here: www.preventablebook.com

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0:00.0	So I got a box in the mail the other day and you know I'm not usually thrilled with the
0:06.7	box usually it's not always for me.
0:08.4	This time it was from well before.com and I obdled up and there were a whole bunch of masks
0:14.4	including what they call their premium 3D Pro KNN-D5 mask which I started wearing when
0:21.4	I was in crowded places and became stable for me during the winter and during the holidays
0:26.4	and with a new variant circulating I don't really want to get COVID I can't take packs
0:31.1	love it so there's also other viruses there's fires all kinds of reasons why having a whole
0:37.2	box of masks around made me really really happy.
0:40.1	So I am always happy when the box shows up as it's now started to do they actually are
0:44.6	sold through a subscription which is kind of a game changer because you can work through
0:49.0	your masks and then you always know that the KNN-D5s are going to show up again.
0:54.7	So thank you well before go to well before that's w-e-l-l-b-e-f-o-r-e.com slash in the bubble
1:02.8	or use the code in the bubble for an extra 10% off site wide.
1:10.6	I never anticipated I would take on a role helping lead our national response and government
1:20.4	service was never part of my plan.
1:24.4	And every doctor knows that when a patient is coding your plans don't matter you answer
1:30.9	the code and when the nation is coding if you are called to serve you serve you run to
1:39.2	take care of people to stop the bleeding to stabilize to give them hope and a fighting
1:46.2	chance to come back stronger that's what doctors do.
1:51.8	I'm honored to work with an administration that understands that leading with science
1:56.4	is the only way to deliver breakthroughs to deliver hope and to bring our nation back
2:03.3	to full strength.
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