Dr. Jha on the State of the Pandemic
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Higher Ground
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This week, Dr. Ashish Jha returns to the show with a hopeful pandemic update. He helps us understand the Delta variant surge (4:04), how to better engage with the unvaccinated (7:30), school reopenings this fall (14:19), breakthrough cases (17:26), and the ongoing debate over mask mandates (19:35). He also addresses looming questions around booster shots (21:49), herd immunity (23:12), and the timeline for FDA approval (24:16). Before we go, he walks us through his day-to-day (26:52), how he’s processed the past 18 months (28:58), and the remarkable nature of these vaccines (30:31).
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:06.0 | The This is talk easy. I'm Sam Fregoso. Welcome to the show. Oh, uh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Today I'm joined by Dr. Ashisha. He's the Dean of Public Health at Brown University. |
| 0:47.0 | He's also a regular medical contributor to Good Morning America, PBS News Hour, CNN, and MSNBC. |
| 0:55.8 | Since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, |
| 0:58.9 | Dr. Jaa has appeared on this But then, unfortunately, this happened. |
| 1:13.7 | Hospital transmissions are on the ride. |
| 1:15.7 | Highly contagious delta variant. |
| 1:17.3 | Pediatric admissions are floating. |
| 1:19.0 | Can I go to a ball game? |
| 1:20.1 | Can I go to a restaurant indoors, outdoor, mass, no mass? |
| 1:22.6 | It is very important to get as many people vaccinated as we possibly can. |
| 1:27.0 | The U.S. could see 200,000 new COVID infections a day in the fall. |
| 1:31.0 | As the Delta variant races through all 50 states, driving new case numbers upward. |
| 1:36.0 | And we've got a delta variant that continues to spread across this country at great speed. |
| 1:40.0 | With the rise in delta cases and the sporadic return of mask mandates, |
| 1:45.0 | there's a real fear of returning to what life looked like in 2020. |
| 1:50.0 | I've certainly felt it in my day today, especially in talking to family and friends. |
| 1:57.0 | Everyone has all these questions that no one can seem to answer. |
| 2:01.0 | So the goal of this episode was to pose some of those looming questions to someone |
| 2:07.1 | actually qualified to answer them. Like every talk I've had with Dr. Jaa I leave it feeling more informed and slightly better about the state |
| 2:17.8 | of this pandemic. I hope it brings you a similar relief. |
| 2:30.0 | Dr. John, thank you for being here. |
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