001 - Global Preparedness, Misinformation and Community Transmission

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Medicine, News, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

With COVID-19 beginning to spread via community transmission in the U.S. and the WHO raising its risk assessment to "very high," experts from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine offer insights on the growing global public health concern.

Featuring Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo and Dr. Tara Kirk Sell of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and Lauren Sauer of the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response; moderated by Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and former secretary of Maryland's Department of Health.

More information: jhsph.edu/covid-19

KEYWORDS: coronavirus facts, pandemic, crisis response

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0:00.0	Welcome to Public Health On Call, a new podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
0:14.0	Our focus is COVID-19, the novel coronavirus responsible for more than 45,000 infections
0:20.0	and more than 3,000 deaths across six continents.
0:24.5	I'm Josh Sharfstein, a faculty member at Johns Hopkins, and also a former Secretary of Health
0:29.9	in the state of Maryland. Our goal with this podcast is to bring evidence and experts to help you
0:35.7	understand today's news about the novel coronavirus and what
0:39.3	it means for tomorrow. If you have questions, you can email them to public health question
0:44.2	at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jhhhu.edu for future podcasts. Today's episode is the
0:52.8	audio from a webcast recorded on March 2nd with three
0:56.3	experts at Johns Hopkins. Let's turn to the recording now. Welcome to this special broadcast
1:02.4	from Johns Hopkins University. Thank you for joining us. I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean of
1:08.3	Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at the Johns Hopkins
1:11.4	Bloomberg School of Public Health and former Secretary of Maryland's Department of Health.
1:15.5	We're here to talk about the outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus known as COVID-19, with three Johns
1:22.9	Hopkins experts who have been at the forefront of response efforts. First, we will hear from a scientist who developed the International Index of Preparedness
1:32.3	cited by President Trump.
1:34.3	I'm going to ask her why this index was developed, what criteria were considered, and how well
1:40.3	is the United States prepared for the novel coronavirus. Second, we'll talk to an expert studying misinformation and fraud
1:48.0	about how you can protect yourself from coronavirus scams.
1:53.0	Third, we'll talk to three experts
1:56.0	about the breaking news from the West Coast of the United States,
2:00.0	about the community spread of the novel coronavirus.
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