004 - Your COVID-19 Questions Answered

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Medicine, News, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Is hand sanitizer effective? Will this spread throughout the US? Should I cancel my upcoming travel plans? Can COVID-19 tests tell the difference between someone who has had the virus and someone who currently has it? Are face masks effective?

Jennifer Nuzzo of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security answers these and some of the most asked questions submitted to publichealthquestion@jhu.edu

More information: jhsph.edu/covid-19

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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.
0:12.7	Our focus is the novel coronavirus.
0:15.2	I'm Josh Sharfstein, a faculty member at Johns Hopkins, and also a former secretary of Maryland's health department.
0:21.6	Our goal with this podcast is to bring evidence and experts to help you understand today's
0:26.9	news about the novel coronavirus and what it means for tomorrow.
0:30.5	If you have questions, you can email them to public health question at jhhhue.edu.
0:36.3	That's public health question at jh.edu
0:40.1	for future podcast episodes.
0:42.8	Today I'm talking to Dr. Jennifer Nozo, senior scholar
0:46.2	at the Center for Health Security
0:48.2	at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
0:51.5	Dr. Nozo has agreed to answer questions
0:53.8	that have been coming in all week about the novel
0:56.1	coronavirus.
0:57.8	Let's listen.
1:00.0	Dr. Nozo, thank you very much for joining me.
1:02.0	Thanks.
1:03.0	So we've been getting a lot of questions through our email address, public health question
1:07.7	at jh.hu.edu, and through the webcast that we did earlier in the week,
1:11.8	and I'd just like to ask you a few of them.
1:13.8	Sure.
1:14.7	So the first one is, is hand sanitizer effective to protect against coronavirus?
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