{"id":7774,"date":"2024-12-30T23:22:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T04:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7774"},"modified":"2024-12-31T18:46:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T23:46:52","slug":"five-years-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-an-interview-with-dr-arijit-chakravarty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/five-years-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-an-interview-with-dr-arijit-chakravarty\/","title":{"rendered":"Five years of the COVID-19 pandemic: An interview with Dr. Arijit Chakravarty"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\">This is what failure looks like. We are looking at it. No one ever said when the concept of public health emerged in the 19th century, \u201cWe really need an organization that is committed to serving as the doula for every newly emergent pathogen that pops out of the wild.\u201d The idea that emergent pathogens need to be shepherded into endemicity, this has never been in any public health mission statement.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">What we have done is take something that should never have established itself in human communities in the first place and have built a public health consensus around the concept of repeated mass infection.<\/p>\n<footer>&mdash;&nbsp;Dr. Arijit Chakravarty<\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>The<\/i> World Socialist Web Site <i>spoke with Dr. Arijit Chakravarty on the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic and public health five years after the initial outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Wuhan, China. The interview was edited for clarity, with many of the scientific terms defined to provide readers insight into the issues at play. Numerous links to papers and studies have also been embedded into the text for those interested in reading further. This interview builds upon prior discussions we held with Dr. Chakravarty in 2022 and 2023.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/five-years-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-an-interview-with-dr-arijit-chakravarty\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Five years of the COVID-19 pandemic: An interview with Dr. Arijit Chakravarty<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,1282,97,14],"class_list":["post-7774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-five-years","tag-pandemic-response","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7777,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774\/revisions\/7777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}