The pediatrician and founder of Columbia’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness also talks about childcare, climate change, and what’s next for him.

We have the tools to reduce the risk of viral transmission, and if we use those tools, we should be able to resume normal schooling.

This test of the new administration and of our national character has now begun. We need to vaccinate, test, mask-up, continue to practice social distance, and do all we can to rid America and then the world of this terrible virus.