{"id":105895,"date":"2021-01-30T10:55:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T10:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=105895"},"modified":"2021-01-30T10:55:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T10:55:54","slug":"public-health-expert-names-what-trump-admin-may-have-got-most-wrong-about-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/politics\/public-health-expert-names-what-trump-admin-may-have-got-most-wrong-about-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Health Expert Names What Trump Admin May Have Got ‘Most Wrong’ About Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"
Public health expert Dr.\u00a0Ashish Jha argued Friday that \u201cof all the things\u201d former President Donald Trump\u2019s administration got wrong, its prioritization of Americans receiving the COVID-19 vaccine \u201cmay be the most wrong they were\u201d about the health crisis and could ultimately contribute to an \u201cendless pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis idea that you could live in a kind of an isolationist world. It doesn\u2019t work, we are way far away from being able to vaccinate the world,\u201d Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, told MSNBC\u2019s Chris Hayes.<\/p>\n
Jha continued:<\/p>\n
\nThe bottom line is, imagine a world where America is vaccinated but there are large outbreaks happening elsewhere. We can see the rise of variants that will escape our variants and make our entire population vulnerable again. And we would have to lockdown again, we would have to build new vaccines and revaccinate people, and we would have this sort of this endless pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\u201cWe all want to avoid that and the best way to avoid it is to focus on vaccinating everybody around the world,\u201d Jha added.<\/p>\n
Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, earlier this week warned the U.S. is entering its \u201cdarkest\u201d\u00a0weeks of the pandemic because of the spread of more contagious variants of the virus that have emerged worldwide.<\/p>\n
COVID-19 has now killed more than 436,000 people in the U.S. alone.<\/p>\n
Globally, it has claimed 2.2 million lives.<\/p>\n
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