In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt A 90% Effective Vaccine! (with Eric Topol)
Could this be a light at the end of the tunnel? Andy evaluates the remarkable news that Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine proved more than 90% effective with physician, scientist and author Eric Topol. How excited should you be? What do we know and what don’t we know? What’s the timing and what comes next? Plus, a look at President-Elect Biden's COVID-19 task force.
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Check out these resources from today’s episode:
- Watch Eric Topol’s interview with FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/938705
- Read more about what Pfizer's landmark COVID-19 vaccine results mean for the pandemic: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03166-8
- Check out the newly announced Biden-Harris COVID-19 advisory board: https://buildbackbetter.com/press-releases/biden-harris-transition-announces-covid-19-advisory-board/
- Learn more about how smartwatches can help detect COVID-19 from Nature Medicine and the Scripps Research Translational Institute: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-1123-x
- Pre-order Andy’s book, Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response, here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250770165
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