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Second, we need to understand that pandemics affect societies according to the inequities within them, and america presented covid with huge vulnerabilities, it's not a surprise that the bar is disproportionately struck poorer people, minorities and disabled people. that's the same pattern we saw with h 1 n 1, swine flu and many epidemics before that. unless we patch those vulnerabilities, unless we think of preparedness just this terms of vaccines and drugs, and also in terms of things like universal health care and paid sick leave. then we're going to be equally vulnerable the next time arou...

They will be back in the courtroom. things more complicated because of the positive test. alisyn. >> thank you. ed young is a staff writer at the atlantic. he joins me to discuss this and so much more. great to see you. i know neither you or i are doctors, however, isn't there a strong that this is a fall positive, after what we saw at the view, all of that chaos, and it turned out that the host, it was a false positive. the fact that justice kavanaugh is doubly vaccinated, his family is doubly vaccinated, his colleagues are. it's possible? >> reporter: sure. what i'd love to talk about rath...

Denial about it or have left the hospital, trying to get what have you. i think that's a really sad testament to just how radicalized some parts of the country have become. the amount of disinformation that has been spread in the country and the amount of denial. >> for sure. mara and ed, thank you. ed yong's latest reporting is for the "atlantic." mara gaye's column is in the "new york times." thank you both. a warning from former president barack obama about the politics of anger and resentment. "morning joe" is coming right back.

Not just in terms of vaccines but in terms of paid sick leave. in terms of widespread health care. in terms ode-carceration. in terms of letting others look after themselves. >> ed is right, mara, the covid pandemic revealed so much about the inequalities in the american system when it comes to the haves and have nots, education, health care, money, social welfare. on your point about the rest of the country learning from new york, i wonder, having looked at those states where delta has kind of run through those states and caused huge pressures on their local health care systems, and, yet, peo...

America had learned from new york city?" also with us, staff writer at the "atlantic," ed young, who recently won a pulitzer prize for his reporting on covid-19. ed's latest piece is entitled "all this could happen again." america is running out of time to prepare for the next pandemic. why don't we start right there. two great pieces. ed, aren't we still in the first one? >> yes. i make this point in the piece. no one wants to think about future pandemics. you know, the thinking is can't we just get out of this one first? i'm sorry to say that the answer is no. history tells us that when epid...