It's the brilliant laro show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. Coming up later in the hour,

a call in for anybody who's still undecided about any election in our area this year or any ballot question.

You could be undecided, let's say, between two candidates, or you can be undecided between one candidate and not voting at all, as I know some people are.

So that's coming up.

But now we turn to our health and climate segment of the week.

You know, every Tuesday, we make sure to cover some of these stories that might otherwise get drowned out by other big headlines.

Today we're on the health side with a very consequential guest who's here to take us behind the scenes of the COVID vaccine rollout.

We're going to go back to that as well as to talk about some current issues.

But he's definitely going to reflect on some of the lessons learned from that pandemic

before another one begins and given all the changing vaccine politics right now.

It's Dr. Seth Berkeley, an infectious disease epidemiologist.

He's an adjunct professor and senior advisor

through the Pandemic Center at Brown University. The former CEO of Gavi, that's the Vaccine Alliance,

co-founded COVAX, which was dedicated to vaccine equity around COVID in particular,

founded and served as CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative.

We'll ask about that. There is no AIDS vaccine yet.

And he's got a new book called Fair Doses, an insider story of the pandemic and global fight for vaccine equity.

So yes, we will talk about the changing vaccine politics

and the health implications for sure, but more than that in this segment. Dr. Berkeley,

welcome to WMRC. It's great to be with you, Brian. So your book begins in January 2020.

You were at Davos at the World Economic Forum, surrounded by world leaders, including

President Trump, who I gather your report dismissed pandemic concerns at the time. But a lot of people

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