Dr. Mike (Mikhail Varshavski), a family medicine physician and viral YouTube creator, joins Jonathan Cohn to unpack the chaotic healthcare landscape of the last few years. Dr. Mike shares how he built a 14-million-strong audience by countering medical misinformation. They look into the pandemic’s communication failures, the politicization of public health, vaccine skepticism, and why the CDC struggled to keep up with TikTok and YouTube.
You can check out Dr. Mike at his channel here: @DoctorMike
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