Fighting the Latest COVID Surge

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 4, 2020

Wafaa El-Sadr, university professor of epidemiology and medicine at Columbia University, the director of ICAP at Columbia University, and director of the Global Health Initiative at the Mailman School of Public Health, talks about the latest COVID surge, including how New York City is fighting the second wave, how people should be changing their behavior and the latest on the vaccine distribution.

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