From Outbreak to Pandemic: Year Two and Counting

Following the outbreak of a novel strain of coronavirus identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, was a series of epic failures and missteps that led to a pandemic — and it’s still raging 18 months later. The global death toll for 2021 already exceeds all of 2020. How did we get here and what will be the lasting impacts of this public health crisis?

POLITICO’s Renuka Rayasam will moderate a panel discussion assessing some of the most consequential failures, successes and impacts of the COVID19 crisis to date.

Chapters
0:00 Excerpt
6:30 Panel Discussion
36:47 Suffolk University Students Q&A
53:07 Audience Q&A

Panelists are Dr. Helen W. Boucher, Interim Dean at Tufts University School of Medicine; Jonathan Haughton, Chair of Economics at Suffolk University; and Social Scientist Jan Vogler. Together the panel will help us understand how we moved from outbreak to uncontrolled pandemic, the impact of the pandemic geographically, economically and what pandemics of the past can teach us about how to anticipate what the new normal will be.

This talk is part of the series Politics in the Era of Global Pandemic 2.0, produced by Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University, the Political Science & Legal Studies department at Suffolk University, and the GBH Forum Network. For six weeks students, faculty and guest speakers examine the issues at play in year two of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Resources
“Pandemics and Political Development: The Electoral Legacy of the Black Death in Germany” by Daniel W. Gingerich and Jan P. Vogler: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0043887121000034

“Hot Vax Summer, meet Not Vax Summer” Politico Nightly 06/23/2021
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-nightly/2021/06/23/hot-vax-summer-meet-not-vax-summer-493347

Check out Dr. Boucher’s recent video on “Antimicrobial Resistance, the Silent Pandemic”

See the New York Times Vaccine Rollout tracker: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html

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