CNN's John Defterios and Karen Suda talk about the U.S. response to COVID-19. They look at not just the funding, but also the politics and the response from the CDC. What did we really get right in the United States? Let's start with what we got right before we talk about what we got wrong.
Or at least the federal government is over spending money on it. Vox’s resident epidemiologist, Keren Landman, explains the end of the public health emergency.
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Michael Raphael, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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