Another Conversation with Amir Afkhami - COVID-19 Edition

About this episode

In this episode, Saman Askari speaks with Dr. Amir Afkhami about COVID-19 and its impact on Iran.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I speak again with a previous guest, Dr. Amir Afkhami, a health policy expert, historian and trained physician. This episode is all about COVID-19! Early in the episode, we discuss the nature of this coronavirus and how it affects the body. Then, we get into the subject of Iran and how the country became one of the epicenters of the disease, its government’s response, the historical parallels with Iran’s past health crises, why the city of Qom was where the v...

People in this episode

Host: Saman Askari

Guest: Dr. Amir Afkhami

Topics covered

• COVID-19
• health policy
• Iran
• government response
• historical health crises

Keywords

• COVID-19
• Iran
• health policy
• coronavirus
• Qom
• government response
• health crises

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Iran, Qom

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