Alex van den Heever on South Africa’s public healthcare response to the COVID-19 pandemic: learning from TB, SARS and MERS?

Alex van den Heever on South Africa’s public healthcare response to the COVID-19 pandemic: learning from TB, SARS and MERS?
Economic Research Southern Africa
Alex van den Heever on South Africa’s public healthcare response to the COVID-19 pandemic: learning from TB, SARS and MERS?

Apr 15 2020 | 00:20:03

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Episode • April 15, 2020 • 00:20:03

Show Notes

In this podcast Prof. Alex van den Heever, the Chair of Social Security at the Wits School of Governance discusses how South Africa’s public healthcare system is handling the COVID-19 pandemic. Even although the lockdown was introduced at an optimal time, inefficiencies in the testing protocols means that we could expect a hidden outbreak going […]

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