Summary: <p>What would the Trump administration or a possible Biden administration do to depoliticize the Centers for Disease Control and other federal health agencies in the midst of a new wave of the coronavirus? Andy Slavitt, former Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and host of the podcast <em>In the Bubble</em> from Lemonada Media joins Brian to talk about the presidential candidates' pandemic preparedness in the context of the CDC, the FDA, and other federal health offices. </p> <p>Slavitt is also Board Chair of United States of Care, co-founder of Town Hall Ventures, and author of the forthcoming book, <em>Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response </em>(MacMillan). </p>
