Dealing with COVID Skeptics in Your Own Family (with Ashish Jha)

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

Lemonada Media

News

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Andy calls up Dr. Ashish Jha, Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, who wants to remind everyone that just like the stock market is not the economy, the daily case count is not the pandemic. They discuss the danger of covering COVID like a political horse race, why he appears on Newsmax so frequently, and how he deals with COVID skeptics in his own extended family. Plus, a cold open featuring Ashish’s take on Merck’s antiviral pill.

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Check out these resources from today’s episode:

Watch Ashish discuss Merck’s new antiviral pill on World News Tonight: https://twitter.com/ABCWorldNews/status/1444097297323859971
Check out Ashish’s latest appearance on Newsmax: https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/dr-jha-covid-vaccine-mandates/2021/10/04/id/1039009/#
Read Ashish’s optimistic January 2020 Health Affairs article predicting the US response to COVID: https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20200131.369043/full/
Listen to Andy’s appearance on The Hugh Hewitt Show: https://hughhewitt.com/video/wh-covid-response-teams-andy-slavitt-and-hoovers-lanhee-chen-on-vaccine-rollout-variant-risk/
Check out this picture of Ashish’s Fourth of July barbecue: https://twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1411832517049655302
Find a COVID-19 vaccine site near you: https://www.vaccines.gov/
Order Andy’s book, Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250770165

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0:00.0	It's CVS Health, they know the women's physical, mental, and sexual health matters.
0:05.0	That's why they're offering new women's health services available nationwide seven days a week.
0:09.0	From heart health, blood pressure, and cholesterol screenings available at miniclinic locations,
0:14.0	to virtual birth control consultations and visits with a board certified provider,
0:18.0	women's health is it an afterthought. It matters.
0:21.0	It's CVS Health. Health here happens together. Learn more at CVSHealth.com.
0:27.0	Lemonade.
0:31.0	We do want to get back to this potential COVID pill from Merck.
0:37.0	So let's bring in Dr. Ashees Jha, Dean at the Brown University School of Public Health,
0:41.0	coming to us tonight from California, Dr. Jha, always great to have you.
0:45.0	And the fact that Merck would stop this trial early after finding the pill,
0:49.0	they say, cut hospitalizations and deaths in half.
0:53.0	If this science holds up on this, this could be significant.
0:56.0	Yeah, good evening, David. Thanks for having me back. Absolutely.
0:59.0	This is enormously important.
1:01.0	You know, we've all been waiting for an oral pill that can reduce the severity of this illness.
1:06.0	This might be it. We'll see if the full data looks like, but it's going to be an important tool in the fight against the pandemic.
1:11.0	You know, there are already concerns from some who fear that people will hear about this potential pill coming and ask,
1:16.0	why then get the vaccine if a pill will cut severity at half?
1:20.0	Yeah, you know, look, the pill is important, but vaccines cut hospitalizations
1:25.0	by more than 95 percent. Vaccines prevent the spread of the virus.
1:29.0	Vaccines are a whole different set of preventive therapies.
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