Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD, of the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, discusses recent developments in the COVID-19 pandemic. Recorded August 19, 2020.
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Topics discussed in this interview:
0:00 Introduction
0:40 Have we become immune to deaths from COVID-19?
2:59 Safely opening schools
6:37 Colleges and coronavirus
8:50 What’s gone well?
12:42 Vaccines
15:29 Ethical distribution of vaccines
18:55 Payment for the vaccine in the US
20:19 Vaccine distribution and the WHO
21:49 Will wealthy nations get the vaccine first?
23:22 Will China be a world provider of vaccines?
25:59 Influenza and COVID-19 in the Fall
29:07 Flu shots for remote workers and the unemployed
32:54 Convalescent plasma, Remdesivir and Dexamethasone
36:42 Public health communication
40:30 When does normalcy return?
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