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We're not there yet and the variants make it particularly concerning, we really do have to hunker down for a few more weeks. We are very close to the finish line but we can't stop yet.

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Found on CNN 13 days ago Top News

It was a great reminder that if you take a population of people, and do regular testing twice a week, that you can actually keep outbreaks under control.

– Ashish Jha

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

If we could get some of these tests a bit more scaled up, we could use testing alone as a way to control the pandemic.

– Ashish Jha

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

In the ideal world based on the modeling data -- twice-a-week testing.

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Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

It was a great reminder that if you take a population of people and do regular testing twice a week, that you can actually keep outbreaks under control and you can continue, not totally normal operations, but operations like with in-person classes throughout the fall.

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Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

This is the last really horrible surge of Covid that we will hopefully ever have to deal with.

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Found on CNN 4 months ago Top News

This is completely expected, and it's just a reminder how ridiculous it is to try and meet a political timeline of having a vaccine before November 3, the Johnson Johnson trial is the biggest trial of the vaccine that I know of -- 60,000 people.

– Ashish Jha

Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

The Johnson Johnson trial is the biggest trial of the vaccine that I know of -- 60,000 people.

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Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

( Daily) cases have come down. Deaths are starting to decline. Hospitalizations are down. This is good news, and it's largely because of smart policies in Texas and Arizona and Florida around masking and closing bars.

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Found on CNN 7 months ago Top News

We didn't get here overnight. This has really been one mishap after another, the single factor that really differentiates us from everybody else is denialism that has pervaded our entire approach.

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Found on CNN 8 months ago Top News

One is the underlying level of infection is rising, which is obviously the thing we are most concerned about, but in about 18 to 20 states, the number of tests that are being done is actually falling. And it's falling because our testing system is under such strain that we just can't even deliver the tests today that we were doing two weeks ago in about 18 to 20 states. That's very concerning because when cases are rising, and your number of tests are falling, that's a recipe for disaster.

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Found on CNN 8 months ago Top News

Of course, all of this is completely unnecessary. We don't have to go through this, we're going through it because we're just not doing the basic stuff that we need to do to suppress the virus.

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Found on CNN 8 months ago Health

It was good to have the President address the pandemic and the crisis that we are all in, i like the fact he acknowledged the importance of wearing masks and that he acknowledged things will get worse. Unfortunately, there was also a certain amount of misinformation about how great America is doing.

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Found on CNN 9 months ago Top News

I like the fact he acknowledged the importance of wearing masks and that he acknowledged things will get worse. Unfortunately, there was also a certain amount of misinformation about how great America is doing.

– Ashish Jha

Found on CNN 9 months ago Top News

I think the CDC's recommendations are really basic and, in fact, I think they should go further. Look, you can open up schools anywhere you want. That's really not the debate.

– Ashish Jha

Found on CNN 9 months ago Top News

This is incredibly frustrating for the millions of Americans who have gotten sick and have not been able to get tests.

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Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

It makes sense why so many Americans are feeling like we're done, and they're feeling a certain sense of apathy.

– Ashish Jha

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

First, is that they were told that if we shut down and really kind of bend the curve, that we will we will be passed the worst and everything will work out.

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Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

The reality is that the virus is with us. The reality is that the first wave only hit a small number of places -- now it's coming to every other place. It's coming to a county or a city or a state near Ashish Jha.

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Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

What we saw was,around Memorial Day, the country started to open up and some states were in pretty good shape and eventually opened very slowly, other states already had a lot of cases and they opened pretty rapidly, and what I think were seeing is a mix of some of that higher levels of cases and some outbreaks.

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Found on FOX News 10 months ago Latest Headlines

Other states already had a lot of cases and they opened pretty rapidly, and what I think were seeing is a mix of some of that higher levels of cases and some outbreaks.

– Ashish Jha

Found on FOX News 10 months ago Latest Headlines

Even if we don't have increasing cases, even if we keep things flat, it's reasonable to expect that we're going to hit 200,000 deaths sometime during the month of September, and that's just through September. The pandemic won't be over in September.

– Ashish Jha

Found on Reuters 10 months ago Top News

But only when we are ready. And we are nowhere near ready now.

– Ashish Jha