REBROADCAST: Dr Larry Brilliant on the COVID-19 Vaccine and What Lies Ahead

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🗓️ 24 December 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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According to Dr. Larry Brilliant, CEO of Pandefense and an epidemiologist who helped eradicate smallpox, we are living through "the best of times and the worst of times." While the vaccine, which was discovered, developed and produced within a year’s time, gives hope that the pandemic will end, experts predict the U.S. death toll will continue to rise through the winter unless more steps are taken to put in public health policies on a nationwide basis. We listen back to Michael Krasny's recent interview with Larry Brilliant about the vaccine, its rollout and what we can expect in the months ahead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:24.0	I'm Michael Krasny.
1:30.5	Coming up on a special edition of Forum from our archives, pandemic expert and epidemiologist Larry Brilliant.
1:36.8	He joined us last week just after the first doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine arrived in California and the grim milestone of 300,000 U.S. COVID deaths.
1:40.9	We'll listen back to my interview with Brilliant.
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1:44.7	previously recorded show, we won't be taking your live calls and emails. Join us after the
1:50.4	news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Michael Krasny. My guest this hour is epidemiologists and pandemic expert Larry Brilliant.
2:18.5	We talked one day after the first doses of the Pfizer vaccine were administered to health care
2:23.0	workers. That same day, the national death toll from COVID surpassed 300,000 people. According to Brilliant,
2:29.3	who helped eradicate smallpox with the World Health Organization, this moment is the best of times
2:34.0	and the worst of times.
2:36.0	While the vaccine, which was discovered, developed, and produced within a year's time gives hope that the pandemic will end.
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