I thought we'd have widespread, high vaccination coverage, and we'd be back to live in our normal lives. Look at january, where we sat. This yonw only about forty % of americans said they'd be vaccinated. We had little to know, vaccine inventory in the country. Nobody could get an appointment. Did you think we'd be through it? You know, i don't think anybody anticipated deltaand if if they're saying that, theni just part for the course with the pandemic,. not a lot of people at the time saw this coming.
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.
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