#214 — A Conversation with Siddhartha Mukherjee

Sam Harris speaks with Siddhartha Mukherjee about our ongoing
failure to adequately respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. They
discuss the significance of asymptomatic spread, the lack of
Chinese cooperation, the failures of testing, travel
restrictions, the missteps of the FDA and the CDC, controversy
around masks, the lack of coordination among the states,
conspiracy thinking about mortality statistics, the political
contamination of public health information, electronic medical
records, preparing for the next pandemic, the immunology of
Covid-19, the long term consequences of the disease, concerns
about a vaccine, the coming prospect of school openings, and
other topics.


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