Andy Slavitt: How Trump Doomed the Coronavirus Response | FULL Interview

iGen Politics team Jill Wine-Banks and Victor Shi are joined by President Biden’s former senior COVID advisor Andy Slavitt for an update on the Delta Variant’s effect on our pandemic response, the failures of the Trump administration in dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak responsibly, the importance of vaccines, and what it will take to get us back to normal. Are President Biden’s mandates effective? And is our country able to come together for the common good?

Andy Slavitt is the author of the brand new book, “Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavrius Response.” Andy previously served as a temporary Senior Advisor to the COVID-19 Response Coordinator in the Biden administration, where, in addition to advising the White House on COVID-19 strategy, he regularly briefed reporters on the administration’s public health efforts, becoming a trusted and reliable source for the latest on both the pandemic and vaccines. Before that, Andy was a consultant and then a business executive who saved the newly-launched Obamacare healthcare.gov website and then served as President Obama’s administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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