Reflecting on two years of COVID-19 with Dr. Alex Jahangir

It’s been two years since the first known COVID-19 case was diagnosed in Tennessee. This Is Nashville host Khalil Ekulona spoke to Metro Coronavirus Task Force Chair Dr. Alex Jahangir about what has changed since March 2020.

Jahangir also reflected on what it was like to be asked by Nashville Mayor John Cooper to take on this leadership position during a time of so much uncertainty about the pandemic, and how his identity as a Nashvillian helped him take on the new role.

Additional reading 

• Hot Spot: A Doctor’s Diary From the Pandemic
• WPLN: Two years in, 25,000 Tennesseans have died of COVID and hospitals are reporting widespread burnout