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They were experts in viruses, and now in pitfalls of fame
By PHILIP MARCELODecember 31, 2020 GMT
BOSTON (AP) Dr. Ashish Jha started 2020 thousands of miles from home, taking a sabbatical in Europe from his academic post at Harvard. Then the coronavirus pandemic arrived in the U.S.
Jha, an expert on pandemic preparedness, returned to Massachusetts, and his blunt talk on the unfolding disaster was soon hard to miss on national news and social media.
Jha estimates his office fielded more than 100 media requests a day at its peak. He went from a few hundred Twitter followers pre-pandemic to more than 130,000 by December.
Philip Marcelo
Infectious disease researcher Laurel Bristow poses at Emory Midtown Hospital in Atlanta, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. In another time, experts like Bristow would have enjoyed the esteem, respect and relative obscurity afforded by academia. But for better or worse, COVID-19 thrust virologists, epidemiologists and other normally low-profile scientists into the pop culture crucible this year. (AP Photo/John bazemore) December 31, 2020 - 5:01 AM
BOSTON - Dr. Ashish Jha started 2020 thousands of miles from home, taking a sabbatical in Europe from his academic post at Harvard. Then the coronavirus pandemic arrived in the U.S.
Jha, an expert on pandemic preparedness, returned to Massachusetts, and his blunt talk on the unfolding disaster was soon hard to miss on national news and social media.
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December 31, 2020
The Rev. Raphael Warnock at the funeral in July of Rep. John Lewis at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Credit: Alyssa Pointer-Pool/Getty Images
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Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. served as pastor and his funeral was held, has been a leader in a growing movement among American Black churches to embrace environmental activism.
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Infectious disease researcher Laurel Bristow poses at Emory Midtown Hospital in Atlanta, Dec 23, 2020. (Photo: AP/John bazemore)
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BOSTON: Dr Ashish Jha started 2020 thousands of miles from home, taking a sabbatical in Europe from his academic post at Harvard. Then the coronavirus pandemic arrived in the US.
Jha, an expert on pandemic preparedness, returned to Massachusetts, and his blunt talk on the unfolding disaster was soon hard to miss on national news and social media.