The Woman Tasked with Finding the Next Variant (with Caitlin Rivers)

Andy begins this jam-packed episode by talking about Pfizer's long-awaited vaccine for kids under 5 with Julie Morita, a pediatrician and executive vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Then he's joined by Safe or Not Safe alumna Caitlin Rivers, who is working to establish the new Center for Epidemic Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics at the CDC. Caitlin tells Andy what the group is doing to get ahead of future outbreaks and keep you safer and more informed about infectious diseases.

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Check out these resources from today’s episode:

• Learn more about the Friends In Deed organization: https://friendsindeedpas.org/
• Read more about the timeline for Pfizer’s vaccine for kids under 5: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/02/02/1077376625/covid-vaccine-kids-under-5
• Check out this article about the Center for Epidemic Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/magazine/cdc-pandemic-prediction.html
• Find a COVID-19 vaccine site near you: https://www.vaccines.gov/
• Order Andy’s book, Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250770165

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