India's COVID-19 Crisis

Welcome to The Bridge Policy Download produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. India's COVID-19 cases have been rising at an alarmingly rapid rate since mid-March, and the virus is now killing thousands of people each day in India. Dan Rothschild , Executive Director here at Mercatus, talks to Shruti Rajagopalan , Senior Research Fellow and leader of Indian political economy research and Emergent Ventures India at Mercatus, about the rising COVID-19 cases in India, if lockdowns are the answer to halting India's rising cases, India's vaccine distribution, their hospital capacity, and how the United States can help one of their allies during this crisis. If you'd like to contact a scholar involved in this episode, please email mercatusoutreach@mercatus.gmu.edu .

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This episode was published on Apr 26, 2021.

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