*Laurie Garrrett on MSNBC now,

[elleng]

re: covid status.

[Bleacher Creature]

1. I saw an interview with her at the very beginning of the pandemic.

She predicted that we'd be looking at about 36 months of disruption. She was a bit skeptical that we'd have a vaccine within a year, but she also assumed that we'd have an easier time vaccinating Americans. She also thought the biggest challenge would be to vaccinate the rest of the world, in order to contain outbreaks and new variants before they got here.

Like everyone else, she missed a few things, but so far she's been as prescient as anyone I've seen or read.

[SoCalDavidS]

2. Yes, She Was On Rachel In February 2020

Rachel was stunned at what she was hearing. This was 2-3 weeks before everything fell apart.

[Bleacher Creature]

3. It was actually this one, but I remember that interview as well.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/05/06/laurie-garrett-coronavirus-ending-prediction-ac360-vpx.cnn

The interview with Rachel was really the first time I started to realize just how unprepared we were and the scale of what was to come.

[usajumpedtheshark]

5. Her books from the 1990's and 2000's warned about

a future pandemic that show the critical weaknesses of public health systems here and across the globe.

[Hekate]

4. KnR