Amir: We need to use this energy, not only to end the current pandemic, but to insure that we build back better. The kind of global coordination that you need in order to ensure vaccine development and o production everywhere across the globe fell apart too. How have we learned anything about how to combat political polarization in a public health crisis over the course of two administrations? I mean, 700 thousand dead. Half the country still wants to fight about masks on planes and make le no flight attendants lives and nightmare.
Former CDC Director Nancy Messonnier and former White House Covid-19 adviser Andy Slavitt join Sean at Code Conference in Los Angeles to explain the back and forth on vaccine booster shots.
Today’s show was produced and hosted by Sean Rameswaram, with help from Dylan Scott and Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro and fact-checked by Laura Bullard.
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