005 - How are Hospitals Preparing for COVID-19?

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

News, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

COVID-19 presents new challenges for health care providers in the midst of respiratory virus season. Dr. Lisa Maragakis, Senior Director of Infection Prevention at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, talks to Dr. Josh Sharfstein about standard precautions, protecting hospital staff while ensuring coverage, how previous outbreaks have laid some groundwork to address this one, and what you can do to help.

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 jhh.edu.
0:36.3	That's public health question at jh.u.edu
0:40.1	for future podcast episodes.
0:42.7	Today I'm talking to Dr. Lisa Maragakis,
0:45.6	the Senior Director of Infection Prevention
0:48.6	for the Johns Hopkins Health System,
0:50.8	about how hospitals are preparing to care for patients
0:53.9	with COVID-19, the illness caused
0:56.4	by the novel coronavirus. Let's listen.
1:00.6	Dr. Marigakis, thank you so much for joining me.
1:03.4	Thank you for inviting me. It's really an honor.
1:05.9	So tell me a little bit about your job here at Johns Hopkins Medicine.
1:10.5	Sure. So I am an infectious disease physician and a faculty. Tell me a little bit about your job here at Johns Hopkins Medicine.
1:10.9	Sure.
1:11.9	So I am an infectious disease physician and a faculty member in the School of Medicine.
1:17.6	My primary role, however, is as senior director of infection prevention for the Johns Hopkins
1:23.1	Hospital and the Johns Hopkins health system.
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