What Did We Get Right With the Pandemic?

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🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This Thursday, the federal Covid Public Health Emergency expires, and with its end comes the cessation of federal benefits like additional hospital reimbursements for Covid patient care and free at-home tests. It also marks a moment in which doctors, scientists, politicians and experts are asking themselves: What did we get right during this pandemic? While Covid has fallen out of the headlines, it continues to infect the population, and in 2022 it was the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. But the death toll could have been even worse. The science could have been bogged down. Vaccinations could have been delayed. But they were not. What lessons have we learned and what should we do to prepare for the next pandemic? Guests: Jennifer Nuzzo , Professor Epidemiology, and Director, Pandemic Center, Brown University School of Public Health Dhruv Khullar, Physician and assistant professor of Health Policy and Economics, Weill Cornell Medical College - Khullar is also a contributor at The New Yorker. His most recent New Yorker article is titled "Ending the Covid Public Health Emergency Isn't All Good News" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:29.1	I'm Nina Kim.
1:33.6	The think pieces on how the pandemic has been handled will be coming out for years.
1:37.3	But the end of the federal COVID public health emergency tomorrow has given doctors, scientists, policymakers, and others a reason to assess how we've dealt with COVID so far. Because it is still here, it has already in 2023 killed some 40,000 people in the U.S.,
1:50.0	and was last year's fourth leading cause of death.
1:53.0	But experts say the reality is things could be worse.
1:58.0	So what lessons did we learn?
2:00.0	What have been our achievements that will help us
2:01.7	weather the next disease outbreak? We take a closer look after this news.
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