What the US Can Learn from Israel’s Vaccine Rollout (with Ronit Calderon-Margalit)

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🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Dr. Bob calls up Hebrew University epidemiologist Ronit Calderon-Margalit to learn more about Israel’s best-in-the-world COVID-19 vaccine rollout. They cover how Israel did it, what the process of getting back to “normal” looks like now, and what lessons we can learn from their success. Plus, how the vaccines have held up against the so-called UK variant.

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Check out these resources from today’s episode:

Check out this article about Israel’s “green pass” program: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/01/1020154/israels-green-pass-is-an-early-vision-of-how-we-leave-lockdown/
Here is the New England Journal of Medicine study on Israeli vaccination that Ronit mentions in today’s episode: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33626250/
Learn more about the vaccination effort in Palestine: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/27/world/middleeast/palestinians-west-bank-lockdown.html
Keep track of global vaccination rates here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html
Learn more about Dr. Bob Wachter and the UCSF Department of Medicine here: https://medicine.ucsf.edu/

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1:01.5	Welcome to In the Bubble.
1:02.5	I'm Dr. Bob Wachter.
1:05.0	The tiny country of Israel is providing us some amazing insights into our own future,
1:11.5	because there are about four to six weeks ahead of us in terms of the proportion of their
1:17.0	population that they have managed to vaccinate.
1:20.5	They have vaccinated nearly everyone over age 65 in the country of Israel, and a large
1:27.3	proportion of the rest of the adult population.
1:30.0	And so by looking at Israel, we may get a sense of what the future may hold for us here in
1:36.1	the United States and in other countries in the world.
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