How errors, inaction sent a deadly COVID variant around the world

York Dispatch — January 1, 2022. Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy: “The more skeptical view is that everything about COVID has been politically managed and therefore it’s a question of whether they didn’t want to alarm people about something happening in India for fear of stigma — almost every country is trying to play this game.”