CSPAN Washington Journal Primetime Dr. Jeremy Faust July 13, 2024
Your television provider. Joining us from boston is dr. Jeremy faust. He is an Emergency Room Physician at Brigham Womens hospital. We thank you for being with us. We want to begin with your op ed in the Washington Post with this headline, the metric that could tell us when it is safe to reemerge. Dr. Faust, what is that metric . Ust the metric that has been discussed the least but matters the most is what is called excess mortality, or excess deaths. That is simply the number of people who are dying in comparison to the usual rates we know about. For over 100 years we have been really good ab...