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(Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) President Joe Biden’s new COVID-19 response czar was a founding father of America’s “14 days to flatten the curve” lockdown strategy.
Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, is a highly credentialed healthcare policy scholar. He spent time as a professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and earned degrees from Columbia and Harvard with a residency at University of California, San Francisco. He has also been one of America’s most vocal advocates of COVID-19 restrictions, from vaccine mandates to business lockdowns.
The Biden team is making the move to Jha as it shifts to treating the virus as endemic, rather than the “war-time” approach deployed under the leadership of previous response coordinator Jeffrey Zients. However, Jha has left the door open to reimplementing restrictions if future waves of the virus come along, tweeting in late January that public health experts should be open to dropping mandates because they may need to ask people to “pull back or mask up again” in the future.
Jha is perhaps most notable for his advocacy for a two-week lockdown of the entire country in March 2020, when the virus was first beginning to rapidly spread across America. He received substantial media attention as a Harvard doctor calling for a national quarantine, making him one of the earliest public health experts to advocate for lockdowns. Jha’s advocacy, along with others, helped lead to the adoption of the plan, “two weeks to flatten the curve,” when coronavirus restrictions were first put in place to allow authorities time to ramp up testing capacity and develop strategies for combatting the pandemic. Jha doubled down on the strategy later. In April 2020, he criticized authorities for not locking down soon enough, arguing that many deaths could […]
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