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About the AuthorVeena Das
The writer is Krieger-Eisenhower professor of anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.
    A health worker wearing full protective gear talks with a patient in a ward reserved for COVID-19 patients at the Hospital Juarez, in Mexico City. AP PhotoOpinion
    Veena Das | The ‘new normal’ in healthcare a myth

    Many patients from low-income neighborhoods tend to first access private providers, before turning to government-run...

    28 Jun 2020 1:14 PM

    A lab technician holds a bottle containing results for COVID-19 vaccine testing at the National Primate Research Center, run by Chulalongkorn University in Saraburi Province, north of Bangkok. AP PhotoOpinion
    Veena Das: Corona policy must factor in scientific uncertainty

    It is well known among historians of epidemics that management of crises produced by epidemics have led to vast...

    24 May 2020 1:55 PM

    One needed a vast amount of ineptitude to create the conditions in which we landed.Opinion
    Veena Das: Charity alone can't win this war on the poor

    Please redirect the massive structure of surveillance you've built to the task of providing services to the poor right...

    6 April 2020 3:12 AM

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