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Understanding Europe’s recent COVID-19 surge: Dr. Ashish Jha
"So this is one where I'll be honest with you, I got it wrong. I really thought that Europeans had learned their lesson from that first wave, and they would never let themselves kind of be subject to another large wave of infections." Public health expert Dr. Ashish Jha tries to put the recent COVID surge across Europe into a global context. Ian asks if the alarming spike proves that the United States has not, in fact, been the outlier of incompetence when it comes to corralling the virus.
Watch the episode: Dr. Ashish Jha on COVID-19 and the dark winter to come
Dr. Ashish Jha on how we've dramatically reduced COVID-19 mortality rates
"There's no doubt in my mind, when I have poured over the data, that an average person who got infected and got sick enough to be hospitalized, let's say in March, in New York, that person probably has a 30% to 50% lower likelihood of dying today. That's amazing." Public health expert Dr. Ashish Jha doesn't have much good news about the state of the pandemic today. But one area of optimism is the improved treatments that doctors and researchers have developed for a disease that we didn't even exist a year ago.
Watch the episode: Dr. Ashish Jha on COVID-19 and the dark winter to come
Dr. Ashish Jha on COVID-19 and the dark winter to come
The US election may be over but the COVID-19 pandemic rages on. During the week of the election alone, the daily US case rate shattered the pandemic's previous record, reaching well over 100,000. The grim milestone made it all too clear the biggest story of the year, and of perhaps our lifetimes, continues to be the coronavirus pandemic.
Dr. Ashish Jha, Dean of The Brown University School of Public Health, joins Ian Bremmer on GZERO World to take stock of how things got so bad (again) and how we can brace for the dark winter that awaits us.
Dr. Ashish Jha: what you should know about COVID-19 vaccine development
"Whenever I am eligible, I will go get it. And I think that's what people should do." Public health expert Dr. Ashish Jha believes that there's a very good chance the world will have its first COVID-19 vaccine before the end of this year. That doesn't mean the virus, itself, will be over any time soon. But when it comes to his own level of comfort in getting, he says that as soon as the FDA and the objective scientific establishment has approved of a vaccine, he'll be the first in line. Actually, not quite the first, but he'll get it as soon as it's his turn. He spoke with Ian Bremmer on GZERO World.
Watch the episode: Dr. Ashish Jha on COVID-19 and the dark winter to come
Podcast: COVID-19 and The Dark Winter to Come: Insights From Dr. Ashish Jha
Listen:The US election may be nearly over (emphasis on nearly) but the COVID-19 pandemic rages on. During the week of the election alone, the daily US case rate shattered the pandemic's previous record, reaching well over 100,000. The grim milestone made it all too clear the biggest story of the year, and of perhaps our lifetimes, continues to be the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Ashish Jha, Dean of The Brown University School of Public Health, joins Ian Bremmer to take stock of how things got so bad (again) and how we can brace for the dark winter that awaits us.
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Dr. Ashish Jha: Making sense of the recent COVID-19 surge in the US
With the world's attention focused on the results of the US presidential election, there was little talk of the largest spike in US COVID-19 cases to date, which occurred that very week. Regardless of how the political campaign shakes out, Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health Dr. Ashish Jha thinks that the country could be in for a very dark winter.
In a recent interview with Ian Bremmer, Dr. Jha said that in order to curb the virus' spread, "we've got to do a better job of helping people understand so they can make better choices." Their conversation was part of the latest episode of GZERO World, which begins airing nationally in the US on public television this Friday, November 6th. Check local listings.