We spent hours working with the white house, and i like to say we're on the same road. We have slightly different ways of looking at things in some areas - that's partly because they're focused on the federal government. So our purview could be slightly bigger than the white house,. But in terms of things like treatment or or, say, research on long covet, the white house is on the same page. I would say we might be a little more aggressive in suggesting we need to move faster'
The coronavirus pandemic isn’t over, but certain corners of Congress don’t want to spend a penny more on it. Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel argues for $100 billion in new spending to fight Covid-19.
This episode was produced by Will Reid, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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