Preventable with Andy Slavitt

America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Abdul dissects the critical role of trust in public health--and how the pandemic challenged it. He interviews Andy Slavitt, a former Obama health official and former member of the Biden COVID-19 Task Force on going from an outside commentator on the pandemic to the White House and what he learned about COVID-19 from inside the belly of the beast.

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0:00.0	June is Pride Month, and in the midst of celebration for many, conservatives have introduced
0:11.3	a slew of anti-trans bills across the country, a stark reminder of how much further we have
0:15.8	to reach equality.
0:17.6	The Saturday is June 10th, a commemoration of the moment that the last enslaved people
0:21.7	in this country learned of their freedoms.
0:24.0	The FDA has approved a new Alzheimer's drug, though scientists believe it may not even
0:27.6	work.
0:28.6	The biogen, its manufacturer, has set its price at $56,000 a course, potentially tripling
0:34.0	Medicare's budget for injectable medications.
0:36.6	This is America Dissected.
0:37.6	I'm your host, Dr. Abdul-Elsaid.
0:48.1	Trust is an odd thing.
0:49.8	We often think about trust between individuals.
0:52.4	We trust the people we love and care about.
0:54.2	The people we work with, the people we rely on in our lives.
0:57.5	People have to earn our trust over time, and sometimes they break that trust.
1:01.8	Earning it back is no easy matter.
1:04.0	But we don't, at least not nearly as often, think about institutional trust.
1:09.9	That inherited trust we hold in our government, or our doctors, or our banks.
1:14.5	Institutional trust is a little different.
1:16.2	We usually inherit that trust from our parents or grandparents, from our communities.
1:20.5	Think about going to a bank or waiting in line at the Secretary of State or DMV.
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