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Gary Edson, President and founder of The Covid Collaborative, has for decades been a highly visible and impactful leader across government, business, and the non-profit worlds. While serving in senior White House positions in President George W. Bush\u2019s administration, he played a key role in the design and launch of the President\u2019s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and in the management of G-7 and other summits. He joins us to explore why the international response to Covid-19 has been so radically different from the response two decades ago to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. He also walks us through the genesis of the Covid Collaborative, how it operates,\xa0its impressive achievements in devising plans of action embraced by governors whose constituents account for one-third of Americans, and its rapid, innovative work on testing, masks, vaccine hesitancy, and school reopening. More recently, the Collaborative has focused (with CSIS) on the stark global split between vaccine \u2018haves\u2019\xa0versus \u2018have nots,\u2019 at the very moment when two Americas have appeared, the vaccinated and unvaccinated. What gives him hope? \u201cAmerica rises to the occasion.\u201d\n\xa0\nGary Edson is the President of The Covid Collaborative.