Airdate: 12/10/20
While a virus-weary world waits expectantly for a coronavirus vaccine, military and industry planners begin launching the largest-scaled vaccine distribution plan ever conducted.
The White House announced Operation Warp Speed on May 15, with a mission to “accelerate the development, production, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines” with a target of January 2021 for the initial doses. In the six months since that announcement, several vaccine candidates have been developed and a distribution plan made ready. The FDA is expected to make a decision on an emergency-use vaccine authorization very soon, triggering OWS’s plan.
Operation Warp Speed is comprised of experts from across the federal government and private industry, including a Pennsylvania native. Army Lt. Col. Matthew Yiengst is the Chief of Plans for Operation Warp Speed and he joins Smart Talk to share details of his involvement and how the plan will proceed.
COVID-19 has revealed the uneasy truth about obesity
Medical studies have documented the serious health risks of obesity, to include coronary heart disease, diabetes, and certain types of cancer. Now it seems the COVID-19 pandemic is highlighting another pressing health concern — obesity not only increases complications from a coronavirus infection, but it may also increase the risk of infection in the first place.
Dr. Catherine Varney, DO., is a family medicine and obesity specialist with the University of Virginia and she joins Smart Talk to discuss the risks posed by obesity.
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