S1E80 / Vaccine Joy / Andy Slavitt & Celine Gounder

EPIDEMIC with Dr. Celine Gounder

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Society & Culture, #Eradication, Medicine, #Covid, Science, Life Sciences, #Sarscov2, Documentary, #Coronavirus, #Covid19, Health & Fitness, #Smallpox

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🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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"It's a really interesting question: how do we get closure in this pandemic? I think a lot of people have hurt and loss that's not been acknowledged. I think acknowledging that loss is very important." - Andy Slavitt In this final episode of season 1 of EPIDEMIC, we look back on the coronavirus pandemic and how we can move forward with one of our first guests, Andy Slavitt, who was President Biden’s Senior Advisor on COVID-19. Then we hear from you, our listeners, about how the vaccine has changed your life for the better. Finally, Celine gives her personal reflection on the pandemic and shares her up-coming podcast projects. Check out Andy podcast, In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt wherever you get your podcasts. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-the-bubble-with-andy-slavitt-our-shot/id1504128553 This podcast was created by Just Human Productions. We're powered and distributed by Simplecast. We're supported, in part, by listeners like you. #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #COVID #coronavirus

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0:00.0	Well, it's a really interesting question. There's how do we get closure in this pandemic?
0:11.6	And I think a lot of people to really reconcile what happened have hurt and have lost to deal
0:17.6	with it. It's not been acknowledged. I think acknowledging that loss and acknowledging
0:21.4	others' loss, even if it's different from your own, is very important and it can be done
0:26.3	in a very generous way.
0:39.7	You're listening to Epidemic, the podcast about the science, public health, and social
0:43.6	impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. I'm your host, Dr. Celine Gounder.
0:56.3	Over the past year and a half, all of our lives have been touched in some way by COVID.
1:09.6	When the first case of coronavirus was reported in the United States in January 2020, most
1:14.5	Americans didn't think much of it. Now words like quarantine, pandemic, and mRNA are part
1:20.3	of our everyday vocabulary. I saw firsthand the devastation that the virus caused in hospitals.
1:26.1	We were overwhelmed. Patients were dying. I walked by mortuary trucks parked near the
1:31.5	hospital on the way to work. PPE was scarce, and there was so much we didn't know. All these
1:39.3	emotions and questions were in the air when we launched this podcast. Listening back
1:44.0	to those early interviews feels like opening a time capsule. One of our first guests was
1:48.7	a former head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Andy Slavitt.
1:53.5	So let's think about three things we're going to need. We're going to need testing. We're
1:57.9	going to need therapeutics. And eventually, soon, hopefully, around the corner we're going
2:03.4	to need a vaccine. Back then, even getting a COVID test was a challenge. Vaccines felt like
2:08.9	a distant dream. But in December, the FDA authorized the first COVID vaccine. And when President
2:14.9	Joe Biden took office on January 20, 2021, Andy was there. He was a senior advisor for
2:21.0	the White House pandemic response team. If you put yourself back to January 20, not only
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