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Ep 20: Andy Slavitt on Optum’s Evolution and Lessons from Obamacare and COVID

Vital Signs with Jacob Effron and Nikhil Krishnan

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The Future of Pandemic Infrastructure

When monkeypox came around, it was sort of like the second test, a little bit of like public of a pandemic infrastructure. It's impossible to hold stores of millions of vaccines for because the variant that will come may not be for call it for bird flu, but it might be this H5N1 and those vaccines. The next best thing is to say within six months, we're going to be able to do that. I don't think we demonstrated that we are our brothers, keeper as a whole in our society.

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