Dr. Bob calls up Hebrew University epidemiologist Ronit Calderon-Margalit to learn more about Israel’s best-in-the-world COVID-19 vaccine rollout. They cover how Israel did it, what the process of getting back to “normal” looks like now, and what lessons we can learn from their success. Plus, how the vaccines have held up against the so-called UK variant. 

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Check out these resources from today’s episode: 

• Check out this article about Israel’s “green pass” program: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/01/1020154/israels-green-pass-is-an-early-vision-of-how-we-leave-lockdown/ 
• Here is the New England Journal of Medicine study on Israeli vaccination that Ronit mentions in today’s episode: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33626250/
• Learn more about the vaccination effort in Palestine: west-bank-lockdown.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/27/world/middleeast/palestinians-west-bank-lockdown.html 
• Keep track of global vaccination rates here: vaccinations-tracker.html">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html 
• Learn more about Dr. Bob Wachter and the UCSF Department of Medicine here: https://medicine.ucsf.edu/ 

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