I actually was the one who convinced the mayor to make it a major.

I actually was the one who convinced the mayor to make it a major.

So the way we do it in public health is we make it very uncomfortable to be unvacc

They didn't get back safe because if they heard it was safe they gave in because

it was really hard. Do you think you have gotten a hard time?

New York City found out that you're having sex parties during COVID?

Yeah, it would have been a big joke.

Yeah, it would have been real embarrassment.

Yeah. So I want you to take yourself back to March of 2020. Okay, mentally, the beginning of the COVID

pandemic. The streets of New York City looked like a dystopian sci-fi movie, albeit with less charm and more hobo-yurn.

More than normal for New York City.

It was even worse than the rest of the country.

Thousands of businesses were forced to close. Millions of New Yorkers lost

their jobs overnight and loved ones were forced to die alone in quarantine and the man you're about to meet is responsible for all of it.

Dr. J Varma.

I've spent my career I worked for the C for 20 years.

I kind of lived all over the world during infectious disease work.

So I spent time doing public health where I go to different.

So I lived in Bangkok and in Beijing and in Ethiopia.

So exciting.

And so what I did was, my job was to go and help countries like build their systems to protect and respond to diseases.

So kind of like during COVID where you had to set up a testing program and a vaccination program and

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