What Changing Death Rates Tell Us About COVID-19

Amesh Adalja, MD, emerging infectious disease specialist, Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security.

Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, epidemiologist, University of Wollongong, Australia. 

David Ropeik, retired Harvard University instructor; author, How Risky Is It, Really? Why Our Fears Don’t Always Match the Facts. 

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