25. Our Post-Vaccine Future w/ Monica Gandhi

The history of Covid-19 is already littered with bad predictions. There are exceptions, such as AIDS expert Monica Gandhi, who foresaw from the first clinical trial results that the pandemic would wane where vaccines – and good public health information - were readily available. Her vision of the future now is that Covid will fade as a major source of mortality and fear for the wealthy. But in poor areas, it will continue to kill, as AIDS did for many years after the invention of effective drugs. We talk about the science of immunity, and why she thinks our vaccines will protect us for years to come.

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