Preparing for the Omicron Wave (with Trevor Bedford)

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

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4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Andy begins with his guide to navigating the holidays now that Omicron is in our lives. Then he explores the cutting-edge science of this new variant with computational biologist and MacArthur "Genius Grant" winner Trevor Bedford. Andy and Trevor cover Omicron's possible origins, the latest on how our current vaccines are holding up to it, and when he expects an Omicron wave to hit the United States. We're learning more about Omicron every single day, and no one's better at explaining what we know and what it means than Trevor.

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Read more about how the Pfizer vaccine is holding up to Omicron: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-59582006
Check out more about the decision to expand booster access to 16- and 17-year-olds: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/12/09/covid-vaccine-boosters-16-17-year-old/
Keep up to date on Omicron with The New York Times’s live blog: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/12/10/world/covid-omicron-vaccines
Check out The Bedford Lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center: https://bedford.io/
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1:12.4	Welcome to the bubble. This is Andy Slavitt your host. If you tuned in to listen to
1:17.8	Trevor Bedford today, guess what? He's on the show and some of us are pretty
1:22.5	damn excited about this. I you know I was like when you get the feeling that
1:26.8	you're talking about the smartest person you've ever talked to, that's the
1:30.9	feeling you get when you talk to Trevor. Wonderful. Wonderful. Wonderful
1:34.1	conversation. I learned so much. I just listened to the recording of my interview
1:38.4	with him and I realized there are a couple times when he said stuff that I
1:41.1	pretended to understand that I'd listen to a couple times so don't be afraid to
1:46.7	do either one or two things go, hey I'm gonna play that again and be...
1:51.0	Slavitt's kind of a dummy because I kind of understood it. He explained it
1:57.7	really well but it was like whoa and then it turns out when he told me Oma
2:01.6	Crown had a sister I was like good night. Good night if I got a sister for you.
2:07.5	It's like no I don't want your sister. I don't want to meet your sister. This is
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