‘I grew up in Toronto’: Dr. Ashish Jha becomes Joe Biden’s COVID-19 co-ordinator
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WASHINGTON-In May 2020, when the world was still trying to navigate the stay-at-home orders and hospital overloads of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, I reached out for expert opinion and naturally sent an inquiry to Dr. Ashish Jha, then of Harvard University's Global Health Institute, one of the world's most experienced experts on epidemics. Given his position, he was then fielding hundreds of media interview requests every day. But he got back to me quickly.