The Woman Tasked with Finding the Next Variant (with Caitlin Rivers)

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

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4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Andy begins this jam-packed episode by talking about Pfizer's long-awaited vaccine for kids under 5 with Julie Morita, a pediatrician and executive vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Then he's joined by Safe or Not Safe alumna Caitlin Rivers, who is working to establish the new Center for Epidemic Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics at the CDC. Caitlin tells Andy what the group is doing to get ahead of future outbreaks and keep you safer and more informed about infectious diseases.

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Learn more about the Friends In Deed organization: https://friendsindeedpas.org/
Read more about the timeline for Pfizer’s vaccine for kids under 5: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/02/02/1077376625/covid-vaccine-kids-under-5
Check out this article about the Center for Epidemic Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/magazine/cdc-pandemic-prediction.html
Find a COVID-19 vaccine site near you: https://www.vaccines.gov/
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0:49.2	To night the country reporting some of the most encouraging COVID-19 trends we've
0:58.5	seen in months, new cases now dropping in every state. New numbers from
1:03.1	Johns Hopkins University showing new cases in the US are down 43% from this
1:07.6	time last week. And listen to this, they're down 61% from early January when we
1:12.6	were seeing around a million cases per day.
1:32.6	Welcome to the bubble. This is Andy Slavitt, your host. Glad you're in the bubble
1:37.9	with us today. And glad you're around for what I think we all hope for during
1:42.6	November and December, which is a quick rundown of cases in Omicron issue just
1:48.2	heard. Cases are down in 49 out of 50 states. They're down 40% or more.
1:53.1	Hospitalizations are going down soon to follow will be deaths. And you know what
1:59.5	happens next? A lot of people are sure of but no one knows. And so we're going
2:03.9	to spend some part of our conversation today on that. How we figure out what
2:09.3	happens next in some part of our conversation. The group that is most left
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