All about Omicron with Dr. Ashish Jha

Dr. Ashish Jha is the man I turn to when I want public health guidance in the wake of a new variant. In this case, that variant is Omicron. He tells us what we need to know now and provides a timeline of when we will know even more. He also told me that this latest variant likely didn't start in South Africa but was, instead, simply detected there.
<br /><br />Dr. Jha is Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health and one of the nation's leading health policy scholars. Throughout 2020 - especially in the early days -- whenever Dr. Ashish Jha came on screen, I stopped what I was doing and turned up the volume. He knows the science and he communicates with compassion and clarity. Perhaps most importantly, he breaks this evolving pandemic down in a way that makes me believe we will one day move past the pandemic, into a more manageable place with respect to COVID.<br /><br />Dr. Ashish Jha<br />Twitter: twitter.com/ashishkjha<br /><br />You can follow Jessica Yellin here:<br />Instagram: instagram.com/jessicayellin​<br />Twitter: twitter.com/jessicayellin<br />Website: NewsNotNoise.com<br />Newsletter: newsnotnoise.bulletin.com<br /><br />Support this work:<br />patreon.com/NewsNotNoise<br /><br />Jessica Yellin is the founder of News Not Noise, a channel dedicated to giving you news with real experts and providing information, not a panic attack. <br /><br />Jessica is a veteran of network news, traveling the globe, covering conflict and crisis. A former Chief White House Correspondent for CNN, she reported from around the world and won awards. <br /><br />Now, Yellin uses her voice to break down the news, calmly and clearly for you -- free of punditry, provocation, and yelling.