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TBD | Inside Biden’s COVID Team

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

When Joe Biden takes office in two months, the federal government will take on a new stance in its fight to contain the coronavirus. The broad strokes of that strategy have been outlined in debates and on campaign websites, but now the real work begins. Two weeks ago, the president-elect appointed a team of 13 advisers to answer some key questions. How can the new government win the trust of the 73 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump? What would a national mask mandate look like? How will the different vaccines be distributed? A member of President-elect Biden’s COVID-19 council takes us behind the scenes. Guest: Celine Gounder, member of the Joe Biden’s COVID-19 Advisory Board, and host of the American Diagnosis and Epidemic podcasts. Host Lizzie O’Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.5

think? My latest heartbreak has been a catalyst. It has brought me to London. I spend my days

0:40.9

as a professor and my nights with friends. It's a generous way to describe them, but I have

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Five years ago, the virus that was in the news, mostly in West Africa, but occasionally

1:09.3

here in the US, was Ebola. It was a frightening time. Ebola caused fevers and hemorrhaging and

1:16.8

had an average fatality rate of 50%. And it was during that outbreak that I had dinner

1:22.5

with a journalist I know. And I met his wife, Dr. Celine Gounder. Celine is an infectious

1:28.4

disease expert and she'd been doing volunteer work in Guinea. And I was really struck by

1:33.1

how unflappable she seemed, even though we were talking about this terrifying disease.

1:39.2

The reason I was not scared with Ebola is because I was going with an American aid organization.

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I knew we were going to have the personal protective equipment we needed. And I knew how Ebola

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