What India’s COVID Crisis Means for the World | COVID-19 Media Briefing

India is the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. There are far too few vaccine doses and far too many cases of the disease – cases that are surely being under-counted, experts say.

On Thursday, three Duke University experts on vaccines, economics, public policy and India spoke to journalists during a virtual news briefing about the situation in India and what can be done there and globally to improve the situation.


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Manoj Mohanan is a health economist and an associate professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy, the Duke Global Health Institute and Economics Department at Duke. His recent research includes estimating the true number of COVID cases in India.

David Montefiori is a professor and director of the Laboratory for AIDS Vaccine Research and Development at Duke University Medical Center, where he has been studying the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against new variants of the virus.

Dr. Krishna Udayakumar is an associate professor of global health and medicine at Duke. He directs the Duke Global Health Innovation Center, which has been monitoring efforts to vaccinate the world’s population against COVID-19.

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This video is part of a series of media briefings where Duke experts speak on current issues.

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A private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, Duke University is known as one of the world’s leading institutions for education, research, and patient care.

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