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Jessi Hanson-DeFusco

Jessi Hanson-DeFusco is an assistant professor of global health policy at The University of Texas at Dallas, and member of Scholars Strategy Network (SSN).

Aerial view showing a man walking past graves in the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery in Manaus on June 21, 2020. - The novel coronavirus has killed at least 464,423 people worldwide since the outbreak began in China last December, being Brazil Latin America's worsthit country with 49,976 deaths from 1,067,579 cases. (MICHAEL DANTAS/AFP via Getty Images)

The unremarkable, unceremonious end of this pandemic should frighten us

Jessi Hanson-DeFusco