Today I talked with Andrew Lakoff about the WHO and about pandemic preparedness in the USA.  It was a wide-ranging conversation.

Andrew Lakoff is professor of Sociology and is joint appointed in the department of Communication at the University of Southern California.  His areas of interest include globalization processes, the history of the human sciences, contemporary social theory, and risk society.  He is the author of co-author of many books.  His most recent book is Unprepared: Global Health in a Time of Emergency (2017). Lakoff's next book, co-authored with Stephen J. Collier, is entitled The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems Security and the Birth of American Biopolitics.

COVID-Calls 4.1.2020 Andrew Lakoff--the World Health Organization and pandemic preparedness

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COVID-Calls 4.1.2020 Andrew Lakoff--the World Health Organization and pandemic preparedness

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