I think we need global leadership here. This is a place where the Trump administration has largely been absent. I know the previous guest discussed COVAX. I think mechanisms like that. I think China and India, as two major producers of vaccines, being able to get billions of doses out. I remain optimistic that much of the world will get vaccinated by sometime in 2022. But I realize I may be more on of the optimistic side than the majority of people. But we've got to make the investments to do it. And I think we can.
One of the key things is going to be to see what happens with the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine, because that's the one that has the best possibility for vaccinating billions of people. We haven't seen the data yet on that, not fully. I hope it ends up being really good data and one that we can use to vaccinate a large chunk of the world.
AMY GOODMAN: Dr. Ashish Jha, we want to thank you for being with us, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, previously director of Harvard University's Global Health Institute. We'll have you back on to talk about so many other issues. This is such a critical time right now.
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