S1E1 - Dr. Robert Wachter - UCSF - Today’s COVID-19

Robert M. "Bob" Wachter is an academic physician and author. He is on the faculty of University of California, San Francisco, where he is chairman of the Department of Medicine, the Lynne and Marc Benioff Endowed Chair in Hospital Medicine, and the Holly Smith Distinguished Professor in Science and Medicine. (Wikipedia)

In 2020-22, his tweets on Covid-19 were viewed over 400 million times by 250,000 followers and served as a trusted source of information on the clinical, public health, and policy issues surrounding the pandemic. (UCSF)

Today we’ll discuss our latest understanding of the COVID-19 science, give direct guidance on how we can protect ourselves from the hazards that remain, and reflect on the world in general that serves as the backdrop for the pandemic and our collective response to it.

Conversation recorded on May 21, 2022.