Welcome to Public Health On Call, a new podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Our focus is the novel coronavirus.

I'm Josh Sharfstein, a faculty member at Johns Hopkins, and also a former secretary of Maryland's health department.

Our goal with this podcast is to bring evidence and experts to help you understand today's

news about the novel coronavirus and what it means for tomorrow.

If you have questions, you can email them to public health question at jhh.edu.

That's public health question at jh.h. That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast episodes.

Today, we are headed to the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University to hear Stephanie

Desmond of the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, interview Kathleen Day, an expert

on the economic impact of this epidemic.

Let's listen.

We're here today with Kathleen Day, a full-time instructor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business

School, and author of a new book, Broken Bargain, Bankers, Bailouts, and the Struggle to

Tame Wall Street. Today we're going to talk bailouts, and the struggle to tame Wall Street.

Today we're going to talk about the coronavirus and the economy.

Kathleen, could you tell me a little bit about your work?

Yes, I am, unfortunately, an expert in history.

What I focus on and have focused on for 30 years is the history of financial crises

in the United States.

And of course, around the world, because we are such a big player. So I look at financial

crises from the point of view of those that we cause ourselves and are avoidable and those that

are sparked by external causes, such as this coronavirus, this is novel, but

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