Understanding Europe’s recent COVID-19 surge: Dr. Ashish Jha

Understanding Europe’s Recent COVID-19 Surge | Dr. Ashish Jha | GZERO World

"So this is one where I'll be honest with you, I got it wrong. I really thought that Europeans had learned their lesson from that first wave, and they would never let themselves kind of be subject to another large wave of infections." Public health expert Dr. Ashish Jha tries to put the recent COVID surge across Europe into a global context. Ian asks if the alarming spike proves that the United States has not, in fact, been the outlier of incompetence when it comes to corralling the virus.

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