Good afternoon, one of the exciting things for the day and exciting moment and i have the honor of serving as the dean of school of Public Health, for all of you that are here for this exciting afternoon, im thrilled, welcome you. And also thrilled not to stand in the way of a great conversation, and so, im delighted to introduce our moderator, wellknown to all of you, im sure, michael, the chair of the department of Health Policy and management. Michael. Great. [applause] im michael and my job as moderator host today is basically to introduce chelsea and devi talk 20, 25 minutes and let you guys ask question and i sit and have a whole back and forth with them and i say now its time to go to reception and have some wine and thats my main job. Before i do my main job, i just want to say a couple of quick things, three quick things about this terrific book. First thing i want to say, as youll hear, im sure, this book contains four case studies of leading Global Health organizations aroun
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February 1, 2021
Last September, India was confirming nearly 100,000 new coronavirus cases a day. It was on track to overtake the United States to become the country with the highest reported COVID-19 caseload in the world. Hospitals were full. The Indian economy nosedived into an unprecedented recession.
But four months later, India’s coronavirus numbers have plummeted. Late last month, on Jan. 26, the country’s Health Ministry confirmed a record low of about 9,100 new cases – in a country of nearly 1.4 billion people. It was India’s lowest daily tally in eight months. On Monday, India confirmed about 11,000 cases.
“It’s not that India is testing less, or things are going underreported,” says Jishnu Das, a health economist at Georgetown University. “It’s been rising, rising and now suddenly, it’s vanished! I mean, hospital ICU utilization has gone down. Every indicator says the numbers are down.”
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A mural in New Delhi is part of public health messaging in India. The country has seen a dramatic decline in new cases since the fall, but researchers aren t sure why. Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
Last September, India was confirming nearly 100,000 new coronavirus cases a day. It was on track to overtake the United States to become the country with the highest reported COVID-19 caseload in the world. Hospitals were full. The Indian economy nosedived into an unprecedented recession.