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With 1 million dead, how can we get control of COVID-19?

As global pandemic deaths pass 1 million, how can we get the virus under control?

09/29/2020

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With 1 million dead, how can we get control of COVID-19?

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As global pandemic deaths pass 1 million, how can we get the virus under control?

More than 1 million people have died from the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide, with a total of 33 million confirmed cases. How do we make sense of such staggering numbers, and what can we do to change this tragic trajectory? Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove of the World Health Organization joins William Brangham to discuss the magnitude of this global catastrophe -- and how we can minimize more harm.

09/29/2020

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