Andy Slavitt

Slavitt is the son of Earl Benton Slavitt, a Chicago attorney.{{Cite news|first= |last= |authorlink= |title= Earl Benton Slavitt |newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times|date=November 22, 2003 |url= https://legacy.suntimes.com/us/obituaries/chicagosuntimes/name/earl-slavitt-obituary?pid=1624626 |accessdate=}} He is a graduate of both The College of Arts and Sciences and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1988. He earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1993.{{cite news|last1=Morgan|first1=David|title=U.S. creates new CEO position for Obamacare insurance market|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-healthcare-ceo-idUSKBN0EV1T820140620|access-date=September 12, 2015|publisher=Reuters|date=June 20, 2014}}

Slavitt's career was initially in investment banking at Goldman Sachs. After receiving his MBA, he joined McKinsey & Company as a consultant.{{cite book|last1=Herzlinger|first1=Regina E.|title=Consumer-driven health care: Implications for providers, payers, and policy-makers |journal=Healthplan|date=April 9, 2004|volume=44|issue=6|pages=26–7, 29|publisher=Jossey Bass|isbn=0787952583|pmid=14969246|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mCT6OXjlxP4C&q=andy+slavitt&pg=PA137|access-date=September 8, 2015}}{{cite news|last1=HME News Staff|title=Obama makes his pick for CMS administrator|url=http://www.hmenews.com/article/obama-makes-his-pick-cms-administrator|access-date=September 8, 2015|publisher=HME News|date=July 10, 2015}} In 1999, Slavitt founded the healthcare company HealthAllies after the death of his college roommate, Jeff Yurkofsky, from a malignant brain tumor.{{Cite web|title=Andy Slavitt can't stop: How a health care wonk became a rabble-rouser|url=https://www.statnews.com/2017/05/25/andy-slavitt-aca-town-halls/|date=May 25, 2017|website=STAT|language=en-US|access-date=May 15, 2020}} Slavitt later recounted that the financial strain of Yurkofsky's death led to Yurkofsky's widow and children moving into a spare room at his home. He was CEO of HealthAllies until 2003, when the company was acquired by UnitedHealth Group,{{cite news|last1=Pear|first1=Robert|title=Health Site Is Changing Supervision|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/21/us/health-site-is-changing-supervision.html?_r=0|access-date=September 8, 2015|work=New York Times|date=June 20, 2014}}{{cite news|last1=Crosby|first1=Jackie|title=Optum executive takes federal appointment|url=http://www.startribune.com/optum-executive-takes-federal-appointment/264001681/|access-date=September 8, 2015|publisher=Minneapolis Star Tribune|date=June 20, 2014}} whereafter he was CEO of OptumInsight and the group executive vice president for Optum, both subsidiaries of UnitedHealth Group.

In February 2008, Optum, then named Ingenix, was the center of an investigation by New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo "into a [https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2008/cuomo-announces-industry-wide-investigation-health-insurers-fraudulent scheme] by health insurers to defraud consumers by manipulating reimbursement rates." On January 13, 2009, Ingenix announced an agreement with the New York State attorney settling the probe into the independence of the health pricing database. Under the settlement, UnitedHealth Group and Ingenix would pay $50 million. On January 15, 2009, UnitedHealth Group announced a $350 million settlement of three class action lawsuits filed in federal court by the American Medical Association, UnitedHealth Group members, healthcare providers, and state medical societies for not paying out-of-network benefits.

The Obama administration hired UnitedHealth Group's Optum unit, of which Slavitt was an EVP, to lead turnaround efforts for healthcare.gov after a series of technical issues reduced stability and service during the portal's 2013 launch.{{Cite web|title=Andy Slavitt already saved Obamacare once. Can he do it again?|url=https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2017/03/andy-slavitt-already-saved-obamacare-once-can-he-do-it-again/|date=March 23, 2017|website=MinnPost|language=en-US|access-date=May 15, 2020}} In November 2013, Slavitt appeared before Congress to address the healthcare.gov turnaround at a hearing of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce.

A February 2014 issue of Time called Slavitt's team “Obama’s Trauma Team”.{{Cite magazine|title=Obama's Trauma Team|url=https://time.com/10228/obamas-trauma-team/|magazine=Time|language=en|access-date=May 15, 2020}} CMS administrators credited his leadership with allowing the Obama administration to reach a self-imposed goal of providing fully functional Healthcare.gov service by December 1, 2013.{{Cite web|title=Resuscitating HealthCare.gov|url=https://thepenngazette.com/resuscitating-healthcare-gov/|language=en-US|access-date=May 15, 2020}}{{Better source needed|reason=The Penn Gazette is the subject's alma matter's magazine, which may not be entirely objective.|date=July 2020}} Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner described Slavitt as a “key part of our leadership team to help millions of Americans get affordable health insurance in a whole new way.”

Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced Slavitt's appointment as Principal Deputy Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on June 20, 2014.{{Cite web|title=Optum executive takes federal appointment|url=https://www.startribune.com/optum-executive-takes-federal-appointment/264001681/|website=Star Tribune|date=June 21, 2014 |access-date=May 18, 2020}}

Slavitt became Acting CMS Administrator on March 18, 2015.{{Cite web|title=5 things to know about new CMS Administrator Andy Slavitt|url=https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/5-things-to-know-about-new-cms-administrator-andy-slavitt.html|website=www.beckershospitalreview.com|date=March 3, 2015 |access-date=May 18, 2020}} He was succeeded as Principal Deputy CMS Administrator by Patrick Conway. In April 2015, Slavitt told a Brookings Institution panel that his priorities would include increasing the quality and reach of medical services in rural and underserved urban areas.{{Cite web|title=Panel Assesses ACA on Legislation's Fifth Anniversary|url=https://www.aafp.org/news/government-medicine/20150422acabrookings.html|last=|first=|date=April 22, 2015|website=AAFP.org|access-date=May 18, 2020|archive-date=August 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190809140836/https://www.aafp.org/news/government-medicine/20150422acabrookings.html|url-status=dead}} He also held roles on the Obama administration's Heroin Task Force and was a member of Vice President Joe Biden’s Cancer Moonshot task force. Slavitt remained charged with implementation of the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare") within the Obama administration throughout his tenure at CMS, and regularly provided testimony before Congress on the administration's ACA implementation.{{Cite web|title=What CMS Administrator Andrew Slavitt Should Tell Congress This Friday|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2016/04/13/what-cms-administrator-andrew-slavitt-should-tell-congress-this-friday/|last=Chandler|first=Seth|website=Forbes|language=en|access-date=May 18, 2020}}{{Cite web|title="Health Care: Issues Impacting Cost and Coverage": Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance|url=https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/12EP2017SlavittSTMNT.pdf|last=Slavitt|first=Andrew|date=September 12, 2017|website=U.S. Senate Committee on Finance|access-date=May 18, 2020}}{{Cite web|title=StackPath|url=https://www.hcinnovationgroup.com/policy-value-based-care/article/13026869/at-congressional-hearing-on-macra-rule-focus-turns-to-concern-for-small-docs|website=www.hcinnovationgroup.com|date=October 4, 2016 |access-date=May 18, 2020}}

In July 2015, Obama formally nominated Slavitt to run CMS.{{Cite web|title=Obama Nominates Andy Slavitt to Run Medicare, Medicaid Agency|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-09/obama-nominates-andy-slavitt-to-run-medicare-medicaid-agency|last=Tracer|first=Zachary|date=July 9, 2015|website=Bloomberg|access-date=May 18, 2020}}

On January 23, 2017, Politico reported that Slavitt would focus his post-Obama administration efforts on defending the ACA from Congressional Republicans' efforts to repeal it.{{Cite web|title=Ex-Obamacare boss wants to broker a ceasefire in the health care wars|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/obamacare-slavitt-repeal-replace-234017|last1=Kenen|first1=Joanne|last2=Diamond|first2=Dan|website=POLITICO|date=January 23, 2017 |language=en|access-date=May 22, 2020}}

Over the summer of 2017, Slavitt invited Congressional Republicans to hold public town halls explaining their ACA votes to constituents. At the time, only eight legislators had held public meetings about the ACA, and Slavitt challenged every Congressional Republican to meet with their constituents and explain their votes.{{Cite web|title=StackPath|url=https://www.hcinnovationgroup.com/population-health-management/article/13030195/at-hlth-former-cms-administrator-andy-slavitt-explains-his-launch-of-a-venture-capital-firm|website=www.hcinnovationgroup.com|date=May 9, 2018 |access-date=May 22, 2020}} After the limited Republican response, Slavitt organized the “Town Hall Challenge”. He held 16 town-hall-style events to discuss healthcare policy and the ACA before a total audience of over 35,000 people. In January 2018, The Nation magazine reported that Slavitt's town halls were galvanizing public opinion in support of the law, writing, "Slavitt traveled from district to district, often on his own dime, explaining to some 35,000 Americans how the ACA’s repeal would affect them. He took to social media to inform and energize hundreds of thousands more. He worked with any resistance group that reached out to him. And, in the end, he helped to rally the tsunami of opposition that would turn repeated attempts to kill the law into a massive debacle for the Republican Party."{{Cite news|last=Holland|first=Joshua|date=January 12, 2018|title=How a Bureaucrat Helped Save the Affordable Care Act|journal=The Nation|language=en-US|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-a-bureaucrat-helped-save-the-affordable-care-act/|access-date=May 22, 2020|issn=0027-8378}}

In August 2017, Slavitt told The New York Times Magazine, “If you give me 15 minutes, I can create a common bond around a story of the health care system with almost any American.”{{Cite news|last=Cox|first=Interview by Ana Marie|date=August 9, 2017|title=Andy Slavitt Wants to Unite America on Health Care|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/09/magazine/andy-slavitt-wants-to-unite-america-on-health-care.html|access-date=May 22, 2020|issn=0362-4331}} His social media activism in support of the ACA has earned praise from former Obama administration officials for its effectiveness.{{Cite news|last1=Shear|first1=Michael D.|last2=Pear|first2=Robert|date=July 27, 2017|title=Former Obama Aides Lead Opposition to Health Care Repeal|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/us/politics/obama-resist-health-care-repeal.html|access-date=May 22, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}

Slavitt was an early public critic of President Donald J. Trump’s preparedness for a major novel COVID-19 pandemic. On February 25, 2020, when COVID-19 infections began to appear across the United States, Slavitt appeared as a guest on Hardball with Chris Matthews to question Trump administration claims that the Centers for Disease Control had adequately contained domestic spread of the virus.{{Cite web|title=Coronavirus TRANSCRIPT: 2/25/20, Hardball w/ Chris Matthews|url=http://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/hardball/2020-02-25-0|date=February 25, 2020|website=MSNBC|access-date=May 19, 2020}} Slavitt praised CDC officials who contradicted official accounts of the federal government's early handling of COVID-19:

The truth is finally starting to come out today when the CDC officials are bravely speaking up. And we've got a competency and a credibility problem, which is going to make it very difficult to manage through this. And I think if people wonder, "is there a cost—is there a credibility cost to a president who doesn't always tell the truth?", it really comes into play now.

Despite being a former Obama administration official, Slavitt pursued a bipartisan approach to COVID-19 response efforts. In an April 20, 2020 interview with the Chicago Tribune, Slavitt recounted the challenges of pursuing a bipartisan approach during a period of heightened political polarization:

If any of us has an opportunity to help—Republican or Democrat, and I believe this virus spreads between parties—maybe it’s a chance to put partisanship behind us...It was reported in Politico I give advice to Jared Kushner and the White House, and I’m sure there are people who sit where I sit politically who are upset. I make no apology. We do what we can if it saves lives.{{Cite web|title=Obama's health care guru has been right so far about coronavirus. His message: This will be over, but it'll hurt.|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-ent-coronavirus-slavitt-obama-health-expert-20200420-75i7kxm5kfeb3mz7lptiry6zvm-story.html|last=Borrelli|first=Christopher|website=chicagotribune.com|date=April 20, 2020 |access-date=2020-05-19}}

Slavitt contributed to the Trump administration's initial phased reopening plan, but criticized the White House for failing to follow its own recommendations. In a May 7 editorial published on Medium, he argued that plans to gradually reopen the American economy would increase COVID-19 infection rates if reopening was not paired with increased testing and contact tracing. Slavitt also criticized Trump's proposed decision to disband the White House Coronavirus Task Force while new infections were taking place.{{Cite web|title=The Economy Will Not Open Up Without a Credible Plan to Address the Public Health Crisis|url=https://coronavirus.medium.com/the-economy-will-not-open-up-without-a-credible-plan-to-address-the-public-health-crisis-28eac8d5a425|last=Slavitt|first=Andy|date=May 7, 2020|website=Medium|language=en|access-date=May 19, 2020}}

On April 27, 2020, Slavitt, former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, and 14 other public healthcare officials and scientists launched an effort to secure $46.5 billion in congressional funding for a comprehensive contact tracing program designed to monitor and control community spread of COVID-19.{{Cite web|title=Gottlieb, Slavitt pitch $46.5B plan for COVID-19 contact tracing, isolation|url=https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/gottlieb-slavitt-pitch-465b-plan-for-covid-19-contact-tracing-isolation/576804/|website=Healthcare Dive|language=en-US|access-date=May 19, 2020}}

In a letter to House and Senate leaders first obtained by National Public Radio on April 27, Slavitt, Gottlieb and a bipartisan roster of public health experts wrote, "The existing public health system is currently capable of providing only a fraction of the contact tracing and voluntary self-isolation capacity required to meet the COVID-19 challenge".{{Cite web|title=Ex-Officials Call For $46 Billion For Tracing, Isolating In Next Coronavirus Package|url=https://www.npr.org/2020/04/27/845165404/ex-officials-call-for-46-billion-for-tracing-isolating-in-next-coronavirus-packa|website=NPR.org|date=April 27, 2020 |language=en|access-date=May 19, 2020|last1=Ordoñez |first1=Franco }}

Slavitt proposes spending $12 billion to “expand the contact tracing workforce by 180,000 people” and an additional $4.5 billion to modify vacant hotels for use as self-isolation facilities. A further $30 billion would be earmarked to provide income support to Americans required to self-isolate. His contact tracing plan received praise during an April 2020 interview with PBS NewsHour.{{Cite web|title=How this bipartisan plan proposes scaling up contact tracing|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-this-bipartisan-plan-proposes-scaling-up-contact-tracing|date=April 27, 2020|website=PBS NewsHour|language=en-us|access-date=May 19, 2020}}

In April 2020, Slavitt partnered with Lemonade Media to launch In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt, a biweekly podcast{{Cite web|date=October 1, 2020|title=Minnesota's Andy Slavitt both trusted voice, social media target during COVID-19 pandemic|url=https://kstp.com/coronavirus/minnesotas-andy-slavitt-both-trusted-voice-social-media-target-during-covid-19-pandemic/5881161/|access-date=December 1, 2020|website=KSTP|language=en}} aimed at deconstructing the COVID-19 pandemic through vital information, interviews, and a forward-looking message of hope:

What we needed was what I call "50% Winston Churchill, 50% Fred Rogers".{{Cite web|last=Borrelli|first=Christopher|title=Obama's health care guru has been right so far about coronavirus. His message: This will be over, but it'll hurt.|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-ent-coronavirus-slavitt-obama-health-expert-20200420-75i7kxm5kfeb3mz7lptiry6zvm-story.html|access-date=2020-12-01|website=chicagotribune.com|date=April 20, 2020 }}

In January 2021, it was announced that Slavitt would be named a temporary senior advisory position on COVID-19 in the Biden administration.{{Cite web|last1=Lee|first1=MJ|last2=Dean|first2=Jessica|date=January 15, 2021|title=Ex-Obama official who helped fix botched healthcare.gov rollout to join Biden's Covid-19 team|url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/14/politics/andy-slavitt-biden-covid-team/index.html|access-date=January 16, 2021|website=CNN}}{{Cite web|last=Breuninger|first=Kevin|date=2021-05-14|title=Biden senior Covid advisor Andy Slavitt says he will leave White House in early June|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/14/biden-senior-covid-advisor-andy-slavitt-says-he-will-leave-white-house-in-early-june.html|access-date=2021-06-14|website=CNBC|language=en}} On January 16, Slavitt formally joined Biden's coronavirus response team with the title of Senior Advisor. At the time, he told reporters he expected to be in the role for four months.{{Cite web|first=Caitlin|last=Anderson|title=Edina resident Slavitt joins Biden COVID-19 response team|url=https://www.hometownsource.com/sun_current/community/edina/edina-resident-slavitt-joins-biden-covid-19-response-team/article_ba5dd178-5ffb-11eb-b48e-f35a6d8c1245.html|access-date=2021-06-15|website=hometownsource.com|date=January 26, 2021 |language=en}}

In his public-facing role, Slavitt regularly briefed reporters on the administration's public health efforts, including addressing public concerns about vaccine availability in a January 27 NPR interview{{Cite web|title=Will Biden's Science-Based COVID-19 Approach Be Enough To Regain Public Trust?|url=https://www.npr.org/2021/01/27/961278989/will-bidens-science-based-covid-19-approach-be-enough-to-regain-public-trust|access-date=2021-06-15|website=NPR.org|language=en}} and announcing a $230 million agreement to increase production of over-the-counter, at-home coronavirus tests in a February 1 press conference.{{Cite web|title=U.S. strikes $230 million deal for over-the-counter Covid tests|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/u-s-strikes-230-million-deal-over-counter-covid-tests-n1256371|access-date=2021-06-15|website=NBC News|date=February 2021 |language=en}} He also promoted the administration's nationwide vaccination efforts in his public appearances, telling CBS This Morning on April 26, "If [the unvaccinated] look at the over 130 million Americans that have been vaccinated, how much safer they are...and compare that to the incredibly modest risk of taking a vaccine", most Americans would be enthusiastic to get vaccinated.{{Citation|title=Andy Slavitt on administration's response to COVID-19 in first 100 days|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/video/andy-slavitt-on-administrations-response-to-covid-19-in-first-100-days/|language=en-US|access-date=2021-06-15}}

Slavitt received media attention for his nonpartisan approach, in particular for comments in March 2021 praising the Trump administration's vaccine development effort Operation Warp Speed. "We’re grateful for the work that came before us", he told Fox News. "I would absolutely tip my hat...the Trump administration made sure we got, in record time, a vaccine up and out. That’s a great thing."{{Cite web|last=Leonard|first=Ben|title=Slavitt: I would 'tip my hat' to Trump's Operation Warp Speed|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/11/slavitt-trump-operation-warp-speed-475310|access-date=2021-06-15|website=POLITICO|date=March 11, 2021 |language=en}}

At a May 2021 White House briefing, Slavitt revealed that his teenage son Zach continued to suffer serious lingering medical effects from an earlier bout of COVID-19. He cited symptoms including tachycardia, shortness of breath, and flu-like symptoms while urging Americans with families to vaccinate their children aged 12 to 15 as soon as possible.{{Cite web|title=Biden adviser reveals son's COVID fight to persuade young people to get vaccinated|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-adviser-reveals-sons-covid-fight-persuade-young/story?id=77761001|access-date=2021-06-15|website=ABC News|language=en}}

Slavitt stepped down from his role on June 9, 2021.{{Cite web|last=Axelrod|first=Tal|date=2021-06-09|title=Slavitt steps down as White House coronavirus response coordinator|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/557590-slavitt-steps-down-as-white-house-coronavirus-response-coordinator|access-date=2021-06-15|website=TheHill|language=en}} Upon news of his departure, prominent public health officials including Director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Anthony Fauci praised Slavitt as a "class act" and said "we will miss you greatly".{{Cite web|date=2021-06-08|title=Press Briefing by White House COVID-19 Response Team and Public Health Official|url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/06/08/press-briefing-by-white-house-covid-19-response-team-and-public-health-official/|access-date=2021-06-15|website=The White House|language=en-US}} Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb commended Slavitt for "answering the call to service at a critical moment in public health".{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/scottgottliebmd/status/1402706999738052621|title=Scott Gottlieb, MD on Twitter|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210609210740/https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1402706999738052621|archive-date=June 9, 2021|access-date=2021-06-15|website=Twitter|language=en}}

{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?511975-1/after-words-andy-slavitt After Words interview with Slavitt on Preventable, June 26, 2021], C-SPAN}}

On September 8, 2020, Slavitt announced that St. Martin's Press would publish a book of his about the pandemic.{{Cite news|title=Analysis {{!}} The Health 202: Most Americans won't be allowed to get a coronavirus vaccine as soon as it's approved|language=en-US|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/08/health-202-most-americans-wont-be-allowed-get-coronavirus-vaccine-soon-it-approved/|access-date=2021-06-15|issn=0190-8286}} Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response debuted on June 15, 2021.{{cite news |last=Collins |first=Kaitlan |author-link=Kaitlan Collins |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/12/politics/deborah-birx-donald-trump/index.html |title=New book suggests Birx wanted Trump to lose presidential election |work=CNN |date=June 12, 2021 |access-date=June 15, 2021}} According to the publisher, the book offers the "definitive inside account of the United States’ failed response to the coronavirus pandemic", with Slavitt detailing "what he saw and how much could have been prevented".

Preventable drew widespread praise from reviewers and public officials. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said that the book "comes at a crucial moment as [Slavitt] explains, in accessible and engaging terms, how we got here and what must happen next".{{Cite book|url=https://static.macmillan.com/static/smp/preventable/|title=Preventable|language=en}} In a review for The Washington Post, Yasmeen Abutaleb called Slavitt "the outsider’s insider" while praising him for “bring[ing] you into the room as fateful decisions are made" and doing the "important work of addressing the uncomfortable realities that brought America to this place".{{Cite news|title=Andy Slavitt: "Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response"|language=en-US|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live/2021/06/16/biden-administration-andy-slavitt-former-white-house-covid-19-advisor/|access-date=2021-06-15|issn=0190-8286}} Publishers Weekly praised the book's "informative and often enraging" account of the pandemic's early days.{{Cite web|title=Nonfiction Book Review: Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response by Andy Slavitt. St. Martin's, $28.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-77016-5|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-250-77016-5|access-date=2021-06-15|website=PublishersWeekly.com|language=en}}

Slavitt has been a subject of an antisemitic conspiracy theory claiming that he and other Jewish people are part of a cabal responsible for COVID and a "COVID agenda".{{cite web|url=https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-712270 |title='COVID agenda is Jewish': Antisemitic flyer found at Melbourne synagogue |date=July 16, 2022 |publisher=The Jerusalem Post |accessdate=2023-04-27}}

In 1996, Slavitt married Lana Etherington. They have two sons, Caleb and Zachary.[http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0998/0998notes.html Pennsylvania Gazette: "Andrew Slavitt, C/W'88, married Lana Etherington in Santa Barbara, Calif., on September 8, 1996"] retrieved October 15, 2016[https://templeisrael.com/pdfs/HaKol%202011-04.pdf Hakol: Temple Israel Bulletin] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019015509/https://templeisrael.com/pdfs/HaKol%202011-04.pdf |date=October 19, 2016 }} April 2011 / Adar II – Nisan 5771 He is Jewish.{{cite web|url=https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/ex-obama-health-official-gives-a-rosh-hashanah-pep-talk-on-coronavirus-637801 |title=Ex-Obama health official gives a Rosh Hashanah pep talk on coronavirus |date=August 7, 2020 |publisher=The Jerusalem Post |accessdate=2023-04-27}}

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