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The Dig: Biden's Pandemic w/ Justin Feldman

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Pandemic Response Strategy

The left seems pretty mired in a moment of hopelessness and demobilization generally speaking. So you're saying that deploying national guard troops to clip patient toe nails asn't going to cut it. I mean, in some places, they they've trained national guards as e m ts like that. That's the level of crisis we're at. A there was an initiative, first mentioned by the bid administration, to hire a hundred thousand public health workers. They wouldn't have necessarily provided health care, but they would have helped with things like vaccination. And that was en byden's initial pandemic response strategy unveiled in january of 20 21. There was never an attempt to get

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