COVID-19 and The Dark Winter to Come: Insights From Dr. Ashish Jha

GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

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🗓️ 7 November 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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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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0:00.0	I think there's no doubt in my mind when I have like 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.
0:20.0	Hello and welcome to the GZero World Podcast.
0:23.6	Here you'll find extended versions of the interviews from my show on public television.
0:27.6	I'm Ian Bremmer, and while the U.S. presidential election will have obvious and enormous
0:32.6	consequences over the years to come, one thing won't be changing any time soon.
0:38.4	The coronavirus pandemic is here with us for a while.
0:42.1	And with flu season and winter barreling towards us,
0:45.9	my guest today says the battle is far from over.
0:48.5	I'm talking to pandemic response expert and dean,
0:52.1	a Brown University School of Public Health, Dr. Ashish Jha.
0:55.9	Let's get to it.
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1:35.3	www.lenar-G-Zero.com. That's L-E-N-N-N-A-R-G-Z-E-R-O.com. Dr. S-J-J-J-J-J-J-Jah, he is Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health.
1:55.0	It's wonderful to have you on G-Zero, sir.
1:57.0	Thank you for having me on.
1:59.0	So I want to start where I left things off in my monologue on this idea of pandemic fatigue.
2:04.6	Right now we're seeing an average of about 85,000 to 90,000 daily cases in the United States.
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