Hong Kong’s Covid Crisis
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🗓️ 18 March 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Hong Kong's zero-COVID policy got enviable results, but inadvertently set the stage for disaster. What will it take to change course?
Guest: Dr. Karen Grépin, Associate Professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Hong Kong
Host: Lizzie O'Leary
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| 1:38.4 | What does it feel like in Hong Kong right now? I would say for the last month, it has been |
| 1:46.0 | a very challenging month in a number of different dimensions. Dr. Karen Grapin teaches public |
| 1:51.4 | health at the University of Hong Kong and studies healthcare systems. And right now, her city is |
| 1:57.0 | an ammassive COVID wave. Something that Hong Kong had managed to avoid for months, even while the US |
| 2:03.5 | and other parts of the world were battered by Omicron and Delta. Even Hong Kong's previous waves |
| 2:09.5 | were pretty light. In January, Hong Kong was averaging fewer than 100 cases a day. |
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