Public Health and Individual Health and the Pandemic

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 20, 2021

Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer, Peabody, and Polk-prize-winning health and science writer, and author of multiple best-selling books on global health and epidemic diseases, including The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance, talks about the latest developments with COVID-19 and how the tension between public health versus individual health informs guidance on boosters and masking and other measures to prevent infections.

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