{"id":7693,"date":"2025-10-18T23:02:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T23:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/18\/richard-besser-interview-first-opinion-podcast-transcript\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T23:02:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T23:02:42","slug":"richard-besser-interview-first-opinion-podcast-transcript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/18\/richard-besser-interview-first-opinion-podcast-transcript\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Former acting CDC director calls public health cuts \u2018absolutely heartbreaking\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opinion: Former acting CDC director calls public health cuts \u2018absolutely heartbreaking\u2019
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Below is a lightly edited, AI-generated transcript of the \u201cFirst Opinion Podcast\u201d interview with Richard Besser. Be sure to sign up for the weekly \u201cFirst Opinion Podcast\u201d on\u00a0<\/em>Apple Podcasts<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Spotify<\/em><\/a>, or wherever you get your podcasts. Get alerts about each new episode by signing up for the <\/em>\u201cFirst Opinion Podcast\u201d newsletter<\/em><\/a>. And don\u2019t forget to sign up for the\u00a0<\/em>First Opinion newsletter<\/em><\/a>, delivered every Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n

Torie Bosch: <\/strong>Former acting CDC director Rich Besser is worried. When public health is working, no one notices. When it\u2019s not working, people die. And Besser doesn\u2019t think the current CDC is working.<\/p>\n

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Opinion: Former acting CDC director calls public health cuts \u2018absolutely heartbreaking\u2019 Below is a lightly edited, AI-generated transcript of the \u201cFirst Opinion Podcast\u201d interview with Richard Besser. Be sure to sign up for the weekly \u201cFirst Opinion Podcast\u201d on\u00a0Apple Podcasts,\u00a0Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Get alerts about each new episode by signing up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2145,2143,3951,2147,2149,2195],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-7693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdc","category-first-opinion","category-first-opinion-podcast","category-hhs","category-rfk-jr","category-vaccines","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}