Covid Death Toll: Reflections and Lessons Learned




The Takeaway show

Summary: <p>While various trackers put the United States near 1 million deaths due to Covid, the numbers are most likely much higher, according to the CDC. Fatalities around the world are close to 15 million. In spite of this staggering death toll, chief medical adviser to the president Dr. Anthony Fauci says we are no longer in a pandemic phase here in the U.S.. Access to vaccines, boosters, and antiviral medications have also shifted attitudes and behaviors. To discuss what we have learned these past two years and what we need to do to prepare for the next pandemic, we speak with <a href="https://twitter.com/BhaktiHansoti">Dr. Bhakti Hansoti</a>, associate professor of emergency medicine and international health at Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg School of Public Health.</p>