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Ian Bremmer & David Sinclair: Global Impact of COVID-19

Ian Bremmer & David Sinclair: Global Impact of COVID-19 | Conversation Between Experts | GZERO Media

Ian Bremmer joined Harvard geneticist David Sinclair, PhD, for a conversation on the global, human, economic, geopolitical, scientific impacts of COVID-19. This conversation took place on Instagram Live.
Their wide-ranging conversation covered areas of expertise of both, from the scientific perspective on responding to the coronavirus, to mutations, to geopolitical responses.
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