‘Drugs, Vaccines Coming, Give Us Some Time'

An assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician and researcher, Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee is most popularly known as the author of ‘The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer’. Dr Mukherjee was awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction for his book.

Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee joined India Today TV Consulting Editor Rajdeep Sardesai for an exclusive discussion on the novel coronavirus outbreak and how it has changed the world.

“The main thing we want is to buy time until we get a good vaccine or drugs. There are drugs coming, there is hope at the end of this tunnel, a vaccine will come. Everyone’s job is to buy us time. If you can buy us the time, we are trying our best,” says Dr Mukherjee.

Here’s what else he said during the discussion:

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