In this UCSF Department of Medicine Covid-19 Medical Grand Rounds, we begin with an update on the pandemic from UCSF epidemiologist George Rutherford, with a particular focus on the Delta variant, which began in India and is both more infectious and partly vaccine resistant. It has now become the dominant virus in the UK, and threatens to do the same in the U.S.

The bulk of the session will be an interview with Andy Slavitt, who recently left his role as White House senior advisor on Covid-19 and whose book, “Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response,” was published this week. Slavitt will reflect on the successes and failures of the past 18 months, describe the inside story of how the Biden team approached the vaccine rollout, and discuss how the pandemic has changed the healthcare system forever. The session is moderated by UCSF Department of Medicine Chair Bob Wachter.

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Program
Bob Wachter: Introduction
00:02:49-00:18:12 – Update on the Pandemic & Delta Variant: George Rutherford (UCSF Professor, Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics; Director of the Prevention and Public Health Group)
00:18:12-00:19:54 – Q&A
00:20:00-01:01:34 – Lessons from the Pandemic: Interview with Andy Slavitt (Former White House Senior Advisor for the Covid-19 Response, founder of United States of Care, host of the Covid-themed podcast “In the Bubble.”)
Bob Wachter: Closing

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