Andy calls up one of the country’s leading experts on pandemic preparedness, Johns Hopkins University's Tom Inglesby, to get the best possible view on the winter wave hitting the country. Johns Hopkins has been the gold standard for COVID-19 information and Tom also has a prominent role on the Biden-Harris COVID transition team. They discuss why Andy thinks the next three months are the most dangerous time in the whole pandemic and offer tips on how to get through it — both as individuals and as a nation.

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Check out these resources from today’s episode: 

• Learn more about the work Tom and his colleagues are doing at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security: https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/ 
• Find the full list of people on the Biden-Harris transition team, including Tom Inglesby, here: https://buildbackbetter.com/the-transition/agency-review-teams/ 
• Check out Louisiana’s COVID-19 outbreak dashboard that Tom mentions in today’s episode: https://ldh.la.gov/Coronavirus/
• Read Moderna’s press release saying early data shows their vaccine candidate is 94.5 percent effective: https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/modernas-covid-19-vaccine-candidate-meets-its-primary-efficacy
• Pre-order Andy’s book, Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response, here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250770165 

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