Public health expert Dr. Ashish Jha argued Friday that “of all the things” former President Donald Trump’s administration got wrong, its prioritization of Americans receiving the COVID-19 vaccine “may be the most wrong they were” about the health crisis and could ultimately contribute to an “endless pandemic.”
“This idea that you could live in a kind of an isolationist world. It doesn’t work, we are way far away from being able to vaccinate the world,” Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes.
“We all want to avoid that and the best way to avoid it is to focus on vaccinating everybody around the world,” Jha added.
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 “darkest” weeks of the pandemic because of the spread of more contagious variants of the virus that have emerged worldwide.
COVID-19 has now killed more than 436,000 people in the U.S. alone.
Globally, it has claimed 2.2 million lives.
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.@ashishkjha tells @chrislhayes one of the things the Trump administration got *most* wrong about Covid. #inners pic.twitter.com/IHuKmYazdZ
— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) January 30, 2021
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