A new year conversation with Dr. Bruce Y. Lee of the CUNY School of Public Health and Health Policy on the state of vaccines, the threat of the mutated virus and what the Biden administration needs to do to turn the tide of the pandemic.

Dr. Lee is an MD, public health researcher and writer who has been widely quoted and written incisively on COVID for Forbes.com since the pandemic began nearly a year ago. He is also the founder and executive director of the Public Health Informatics, Computational, and Operations Research group (PHICOR), a national research collaboration that has been helping guide the science of infectiousness and vaccination.