Metro COVID czar pours out fury and feelings
Happy Hump Day! This is Tennessean planning director Madalyn Hoerr. Do you know my favorite part of any morning routine? Supporting local journalism. ☕📰
Today I want to highlight the newest column from my Daily Briefing co-host and friend, Brad Schmitt, who is enjoying a much-deserved day off today.
Brad recently spent more than three hours with Dr. Alex Jahangir, Nashville's COVID-19 czar, to talk about his upcoming book.
Spoiler alert on the memoir: Jahangir gets run out of a downtown bar.
Brad writes that "the Vanderbilt trauma surgeon is itching for a fight: He lashes out at COVID doubters and the bullies he's faced since he first arrived in Tennessee as a 6-year-old immigrant from Iran."
But Jahangir also expresses gratitude for the fight against COVID-19.
Subscribers can get more of their conversation and why Jahangir says "ideology wrenched the wheel away from science" in this exclusive story.
(Keep an eye out for an update from The Tennessean's new health care reporter Frank Gluck on the current coronavirus outlook later this week.)
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