Global COVID-19 Update
In July 2022, Nahid Bhadelia, MD, MALD, joined the White House COVID-19 Response Team as senior policy advisor for Global COVID Response. The infectious disease physician, who is on sabbatical from Boston University, spoke with JAMA Associate Managing News Editor Jennifer Abbasi about the pandemic’s true burden of disease in low- and middle-income countries and ongoing COVID-19 vaccine inequity.
Correction: this Q&A includes some unclear wording in one of Dr Bhadelia’s responses. The correction can be viewed at https://ja.ma/3SS46tg.
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Topics discussed in this interview:
00:00 Introduction
00:51 Pandemic numbers globally
04:29 Low cases and deaths in Africa
06:30 Effects of undercounting deaths
07:26 How can we improve accounting deaths?
08:46 Global vaccine numbers
09:18 Equitable distribution of vaccines
11:22 Areas that continue to struggle with access
12:42 Challenges in low- and middle-income countries
15:10 Supply of original vaccines
16:41 Other vaccine-preventable diseases
18:47 What do you hope to accomplish?
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