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Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee on the Language of Epidemiology

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson becomes the first major world leader to be hospitalized for COVID-19. Meanwhile, in the United States, the Surgeon General warns Americans to brace for the “hardest, saddest week ahead, equivalent to Pearl Harbor or 9/11." Physician and author Siddhartha Mukherjee has been studying the progress of the virus. He joins the program to discuss the crisis.

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