236 - Rethinking the US COVID-19 Response

Today's episode is audio from a webcast recorded last week with two members of President Joe Biden's COVID-19 advisory board. In a conversation moderated by Global Health NOW's Brian Simpson, infectious disease and epidemiology expert Dr. Celine Gounder and public health policy expert Loyce Pace talk about the challenges the new administration faces coming into the COVID-19 crisis with millions of cases and hundreds of thousands of deaths, a significant number of Americans who deny the severity of the virus, a faltering vaccine distribution effort, and a new and more contagious variant of the virus—all in the context of a bitterly divided nation. KEYWORDS: policy; vaccine hesitancy; health communication