Hey friends, welcome back. Happy New Year. I hope you've had a fantastic holiday.

As you all know, this is America Dissecting. I'm your host, Dr. Abdul Alseh.

We're doing things a little bit differently today. Joining us today is Trevelle Anderson,

host of Crooked Media's What a Day podcast, and guest host with me today. We'll be sharing

in a conversation that features all of the questions that you've asked us, man a little

bit more about the pandemic, where we're headed, and about the foundational basis of public

health. I hope you enjoy.

All right, Trevelle Anderson is an award-winning journalist, social curator and world

changer who always comes to slay Trevelle. Thank you for slaying on our pot.

Thanks for having me. I'm excited for our conversation today.

Well, thank you again for making it. So this episode is going to be a little bit different

than you're used to. We wanted to have a conversation where Trevelle is going to serve as the

voice of the audience. So we're going to share a conversation today, and they're going

to read some questions to me. I'm going to read some questions to them. But most of all,

we're going to share a great conversation about this pandemic where we are right now, about

public health, and about where we go from here.

I'm excited to get into all of the COVID, Omicron, Omicron. I don't know how you say it.

I say Omicron. I'll be honest. I didn't know how to pronounce that letter until I had

to talk about it on CNN. And so I was like, all right, I googled how do you say this?

So I think there's two approaches. One is Omicron, and the other one is Omicron. But like,

I'm not Greek. That's the thing. I'm like the other side, my family's from the other

side of the Mediterranean. So they make me say over on what a day, they make me say Omicron.

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