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Apr 2021
24m 36s

India’s wake up call to the world

Financial Times
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Gideon Rachman talks to Abraar Karan, a physician at Harvard Medical School and a specialist in global health, about the current surge in coronavirus cases in India and why nationalistic approaches to curbing the pandemic will not help solve a worldwide health crisis

 

Review Clips: NDTV, India Today, CNBC, US Department of State


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