The Country That Decided the Pandemic Is Over (with Kristian Andersen)

Andy enlists Scripps Research immunologist and Danish expat Kristian Andersen to understand why Denmark lifted all their COVID restrictions — despite leading the world in per capita infections — and what we in the U.S. can learn from that. Plus, how BA.2 compares to BA.1 with regard to transmissibility, severity, and immune evasiveness and what Kristian thinks we need to do to minimize the risk of future variants.

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Check out these resources from today’s episode:

• Here’s more on the FDA’s decision to postpone the VRBPAC meeting on Pfizer’s vaccine for kids under 5: https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/11/pfizer-and-fda-pull-back-from-plan-to-expedite-review-of-covid-19-vaccine-in-young-children/
• Read more about Denmark’s decision to lift COVID restrictions: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/denmark-covid-restrictions/621482/
• Read the paper Kristian wrote with Michael Mina on testing: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abe9187
• For more on BA.2, check out this explainer: https://www.vox.com/22923891/omicron-subvariant-ba2-coronavirus
• 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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