NPR Marketplace with Pavlina R. Tcherneva “Five years on, how has the COVID-19 pandemic shaped the economy?”

On March 11–the five-year anniversary of the official global pandemic declaration from the World Health Organization–Institute President Pavlina R. Tcherneva spoke with the Marketplace Morning Report. The discussion expands upon the long-standing economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, what could have been done better, and what the future holds.

Tcherneva: “We were able to really mobilize the public resources. And I’m talking about financial resources, and research capabilities, administrative structures. We were able to mobilize them to, you know, develop obviously vaccines. We offered telehealth, we offered various other subsidies. And so I think people understood, for a brief moment, that this was possible. And those protections then disappeared, and they were left to struggle with high health care bills and the kind of difficulty to access health care, as one example.”

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