We May Never Have A Vaccine

Prognosis: Breakthrough

• Episode: We May Never Have A Vaccine
• Website: Prognosis: Breakthrough
• Feed URL: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/BLM8995439705
• Duration: 00:18:31
• Published: 2020-05-05 23:48

Doctor Richard Besser was the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2009, when the H1N1 Swine flu pandemic broke out. The physician-turned-epidemiologist now runs the Robert Wood Johnson foundation with a mission to improve health equality. Reporter Riley Griffin spoke to him about what happens to the most vulnerable communities as states begin to relax social distancing rules; and the danger that we'll never have a vaccine. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com