Dr. Teena Chopra, WSU infectious diseases expert on the importance of public health policies

Episode Notes WSU infectious diseases expert Dr. Teena Chopra shares with host Darrell Dawsey her thoughts on the nation’s progress in battling COVID-19, the urgent need to be ready for the next outbreak, and how her upbringing in India helped ready her for a medical career in Detroit.

About An infectious disease specialist, Dr. Teena Chopra is a professor of internal medicine, infectious diseases, for the Wayne State University School of Medicine, as well as the corporate medical director of infection prevention and hospital epidemiology at the Detroit Medical Center. Dr. Chopra also serves on the Wayne State University Campus Restart Committee, assisting with university preparations and responses related to COVID-19. She has offered her expertise on the virus and infectious disease precautions in a number of local and national media outlets, and has been published in numerous medical journals.

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• • CBC: U.S. infectious disease specialist addresses spike in COVID-19 cases in 23 states
• • The 74: Plans to administer ‘nation’s report card’ in 2021 to proceed despite concerns over reliability and funding during pandemic
• • Mlive: Michigan’s coronavirus cases have flattened in recent weeks, but don’t break out the bubbly just yet
• • Bloomberg Law: COVID-19 reinvades U.S. states that already beat it back once
• • The New York Times: Doctors heavily overprescribed antibiotics early in the pandemic
• • dBusiness: Wayne State University publishes new findings of potentially deadly bacterial infection linked to COVID-19 in older patients

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