Episode 163 - Dr. Ashish Jha (Director of Harvard Global Health Institute)

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 15 March 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Dr. Ashish Jha is the Director of Harvard Global Health Institute and a Professor at Harvard T. H. Chan school of public health. If you've turned on your TV over the past few days, you've likely seen him discussing COVID-19. Today he joins us to talk about how the coronavirus spread; the necessity for social distancing; elderly discrimination; what we can learn from the Spanish Flu of 1918; and plenty advice on how to best keep you and your family safe in this critical moment.“We’ve got a common enemy and we are going to fight and we are going to win”, he says. To learn more about Dr. Jha and his work, visit our site www.talkeasypod.com.

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0:00.0	Pushkin. The president and the political leaders have not helped. The president has been down
0:20.4	playing it from day one even tweeting last week about the flu, the flu is the wrong
0:26.2	comparison. This is a much deadlier disease and that doesn't help when that's the message
0:31.8	coming out of the White House.
0:33.0	But I think public health people, doctors like me have to step up and be a much more effective at communicating just how big a deal this is.
0:48.9	That was Dr. Ashish Jaa. I'm San Francisco and this is talk easy.
1:18.1	Welcome to the show. Hey everyone. Last week I mentioned that actress Juliet Louis was going to be today's guests and while the conversation I had with Juliet is no doubt one of my favorites in a long time.
1:27.0	You know, she's as talented and thoughtful of a person that you could hope for.
1:33.2	She's exactly the kind of guests that I love having.
1:37.5	And yet, it seemed given the week that has unfolded in front of us and what we expect in the weeks ahead. It seemed
1:47.3	necessary to try to talk about COVID-19 which is something that is going to impact all of our lives.
1:55.0	So in a slight pivot, today's episode is with Ashish K. Jaa.
2:00.0	He's a physician, health policy researcher, and the director of the Harvard Global Health
2:06.0	Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
2:09.0	If you've turned on your television over the past few days, you've probably seen Dr. Jaa talk about COVID-19 on a number
2:16.1	of shows including Anderson Cooper, The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, Joy Reed,
2:21.3	PBS News Hour. He's been on all of them and I think one of the reasons
2:26.0	he's been on all of them is because he's particularly level-headed and knowledgeable.
2:31.6	He has a way of speaking about this virus and where we're at right now as a country.
2:37.0	To give some context, about 25 minutes before we sat down this Friday,
2:42.0	President Trump declared a national emergency. This
2:46.0	declaration, according to every expert on the subject, was long overdue. The
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