What the CDC Director Really Wants You to Know (with Rochelle Walensky)

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

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🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Andy and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky dig into some of the toughest COVID questions of the moment. When will we be able to take our masks off? Will we need a 4th vaccine dose? What does the data tell us about variant-specific boosters? They talk about how our public health infrastructure has transformed over the past two years, the new COVID surveillance systems at our disposal, and what the CDC will be looking out for as the virus continues to mutate. Plus, Dr. Walensky reflects on her first year as head of the CDC and gives practical advice for people navigating their local guidance when it contradicts CDC recommendations.

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Keep up with the latest CDC guidance on COVID-19: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
Listen to Dr. Walensky’s first appearance on In the Bubble, back in January of 2021: https://lemonadamedia.com/podcast/meet-the-new-cdc-director-with-rochelle-walensky/
Learn more about the National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS): https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/surveillance/wastewater-surveillance/wastewater-surveillance.html
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1:11.9	Welcome to the bubble. This is your host Andy Slavitt. It's February 21st or
1:16.9	whatever day you're playing this because this one's going to be a classic.
1:20.3	Dr. Rochelle Wollensky we're going really in depth. We've had her on the show
1:24.6	twice before. This is probably the place where she comes and you can hear the
1:28.3	real story where she really unloads to a friend. She is a friend but I still
1:33.8	interview her nonetheless and we still have a very specific and pointed
1:37.5	conversation about what's going on. She has been in the firing line under the
1:42.9	gun like probably very few other people and she came at this at a time in her
1:48.8	career as an infectious disease specialist as a great physician who,
1:53.3	frankly, is a parent, mom, daughter, etc. She wanted to do well. Got thrown in the
1:57.8	fire, learned a ton of lessons, kept her humor, kept who she is about her and
2:03.3	really is an honest, great voice but she doesn't shy away in this conversation
2:09.2	as you'll hear from the troubles and the challenges of COVID-19, of the
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