The speaker is urging people to contact those with influence and encourage the President to use executive power to designate powerful public health tools as public health tools, and allow the CDC and NIH to evaluate tests appropriately and efficiently for public health.
The podcast discusses advice for students and professionals on how to solve significant real-world problems through their career efforts. The speaker relates her experience with the viral outbreak and how it is crucial to have a mindset of bringing about a positive impact on society.
Lex discusses the possibility of coverups in future pandemics and highlights the challenges in empathizing with the Chinese government's actions during the COVID-19 outbreak. He also questions whether the US government would have done the same.
The development of vaccines during the pandemic has been remarkable, yet there are still vaccine hesitant people waiting for full approval. The compensation for those who developed the vaccines could be well-deserved, especially as the US falls behind other countries with vaccine approval times.
The delay in vaccination distribution to the general population in the US is due to policy issues rather than supply and demand, despite producing and delivering 3 to 4 million doses per day. It may take until May-June for enough people to be vaccinated to allow air travel without masks safely.