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A reckoning on pandemic lockdowns
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The former head of the National Institutes of Health says responding to the COVID pandemic through a public health lens may have been a mistake. What lessons we can learn.
Guests
Ashish Jha, dean, Brown University School of Public Health. Appointed as White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator in March 2022. Faculty director of the Harvard Global Health Institute from 2014 until 2020. Former professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School.
Tracy Høeg, visiting scholar, MIT. Physician epidemiologist. Physician scientist, University of California San Francisco. Associate professor of clinical research, University of Southern Denmark.