A COVID-19 Checkup with Dr. Ashish Jha
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Lemonada Media
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Ashish Jha (Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute) joins us this week to give us science-based updates on the global pandemic. We discuss the federal government’s inconsistent approach to COVID-19 (9:40), the truth about transmission rates (13:00), the affect masks can have on numbers country-wide (20:55), the restlessness of the older generation (32:24), predictions of the second wave (36:50), and his hope of overcoming the pandemic (40:24).
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. I'm San Frigoso and today on the podcast I am sitting down with Dr. |
| 0:39.0 | Ashish Jaa. He's the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 0:46.4 | This is now the third time I've sat with Dr. Jaa since the start of the COVID-19 crisis. A lot has happened in that time, as I'm sure you're aware. |
| 0:57.2 | You may have seen Dr. Jod talk about the COVID-19 crisis on MSMBC, CNN, Fox even, he's been on all the national shows and that is because |
| 1:10.0 | in case it bears repeating, This issue, the pandemic, is not a political issue. |
| 1:18.0 | I know we seem to be in this moment where wearing a mask has been politicized, going outside has been politicized, wearing gloves has been politicized, hand sanitizer has been politicized, the pandemic has been politicized, |
| 1:34.6 | people dying has been politicized. |
| 1:39.4 | If I have to add anything to this discourse |
| 1:42.2 | besides this conversation you're about to hear. |
| 1:46.3 | Is that if you have family members right now, friends in your life, that aren't taking this seriously. |
| 1:55.0 | If you, listening to the show, aren't taking this seriously. |
| 2:00.0 | I need only to point you to the increasing numbers of cases and deaths across this country as we try to reopen. |
| 2:09.0 | For those of you who are privileged enough to not have to go into an office. Those of you that can't afford to pay |
| 2:16.2 | for takeout, for inst-cart groceries, however you're doing, you know, you're shopping, however you're getting by. |
| 2:25.0 | I'd really urge you to have a conversation with the people in your life who think we are past this because we are not past it. |
| 2:38.5 | I really wish we were. I'd like to go play basketball. I'd like to go to a bar. I'd like to go see a movie. I'd like to see my parents. |
| 2:49.0 | I'd like to see my grandparents. They're 93 and 80. I know they don't have much time left. I'm not being |
| 2:59.4 | cynical and being realistic. I know they don't have much time. I know if you're |
| 3:03.7 | listening to the show you have people in your life that don't have much time left. |
| 3:08.0 | I know that's hard. I know that's hard to not see them. |
| 3:13.0 | I'm not an expert, so that's why we're having an expert on this show. |
| 3:17.0 | To explain the numbers, to explain how we can better move through this moment, to explain how we can get to get to the other side of this. |
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