Toolkit: Getting Back to “Normal”

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

Lemonada Media

News

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The good news: things are starting to open back up. The bad news: it’s going to feel weird. Dr. Bob is joined by Lucy McBride and Craig Spencer for this toolkit all about how to navigate the "new normal." From taking off your mask in public to dealing with anxiety to navigating post-vaccine life with unvaccinated kids... this toolkit’s got something for everyone.

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Check out these resources from today’s episode:

Here are the CDC’s latest guidelines for fully-vaccinated people: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html
Read all of Craig’s Medium pieces, including the one about how things are about to get really weird: https://craig-a-spencer.medium.com/
Check out Lucy’s opinion piece in The Washington Post about feeling anxiety over the end of the pandemic: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/09/weve-adjusted-pandemic-life-now-we-face-anxiety-leaving-it-behind/
Here’s Lucy’s CNN opinion piece about taking her mask off with vaccinated patients: https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/30/opinions/secret-weapon-ending-pandemic-mcbride/index.html
Read the collection of essays about emerging from the pandemic that Craig mentions in the episode: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/style/re-enter-society-after-covid.html
Check out this Irish Times article on the University of Canterbury study about outdoor transmission that Lucy mentions: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/outdoor-transmission-accounts-for-0-1-of-state-s-covid-19-cases-1.4529036
Learn more about Dr. Bob Wachter and the UCSF Department of Medicine here: https://medicine.ucsf.edu/

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1:02.3	Welcome to In the Bubble, I'm Dr. Bob Wachter.
1:06.2	In the United States at least, things are returning to normal, but normal is almost anything
1:13.8	but normal, and all of us are struggling with how much we should return to normal and how
1:21.5	to deal with it.
1:23.0	And I think we've all just had this experience now.
1:26.4	I take Newman out for a walk and don't wear a mask because that's reasonable.
1:32.5	The CDC says I don't need to and yet it's weird.
1:37.0	And I see other people's and many folks in San Francisco are still wearing masks and
1:41.7	everybody's looking at each other funny.
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