Bill McKeon
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224 appearances
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first heard Jun 2021
last heard Jun 2021
Bill McKeon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A lot of people forget during this pandemic
that our hospitals are usually at 80, 90% for just the normal challenges disease brings on in our community.
And people travel from around the world to come here for that care.
And so we had that on top of a pandemic.
And so one of the things about social capital is once we establish that trust baseline,
to really work with each other, it was amazing to see how we would set up our testing.
We would really talk collectively about how can we set up the testing, because remember, it was first mandated to come in to our hospitals who were already taxed with not only providing care for non-COVID, but now COVID patients.
And now we became the cornerstone for testing in the entire country.
And it was really the great efforts and investments made by Baylor College of Medicine and University of Texas and Houston Methodist that really gave us a testing capacity.
So we knew in real time how many people were coming in that had COVID, while back in the day, and that's only a year ago, we'd wait for those tests to go to Washington and come back six weeks later.
And so we had to have the real-time intelligence to know where this virus was, the presence of it in various communities.
And so now we've really shifted knowing where those hotspots are.
We've shifted our mobile units to where we deliver vaccine.
We test heavier in certain areas because we know the virus presence is greater.
So it's really all of those tools that we've put together and shared with one another that's been all the difference in the success of us battling this pandemic.
If I try to synthesize it into a statement, I think that what we're creating here is the most efficient, comprehensive ecosystem to translate discovery into advancing human care.
And that's quite a statement.
But we already had the largest set of minds here.
that are researching advancements in care and also practicing them every day.
But what we didn't have is all the pieces together, which is we have clinical, we have research, we didn't really have the investments here, we didn't have industry here, and we also didn't have manufacturer here.
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