029 - Eric Toner, Healthcare Preparedness Expert, Answers Your COVID-19 Questions

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

News, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

The Center for Health Security is back with another round of expert answers to your most-asked COVID-19 questions. If we reopen everything back up, what is the risk that we'll have a new surge of infections? As China considers loosening restrictions, how are they making those decisions? Why aren't there human temperature monitors in public places like airports, hospitals, and grocery stores? Is anyone considering breast milk for antibody therapy? Can two positive people quarantine together? How many people will actually get COVID-19? What are the most important unanswered questions right now?

Eric Toner of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security addresses questions submitted to publichealthquestion@jhu.edu.

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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.h. That's public health question at jh.u.edu
0:40.1	for future podcast episodes.
0:42.5	Today, I'm asking questions submitted by listeners
0:45.3	to Dr. Eric Toner, senior scholar at the Center
0:48.3	for Health Security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School
0:51.1	of Public Health.
0:52.2	Let's listen.
0:53.6	Thank you, Dr. Toner, for joining me.
0:56.0	We have a number of questions from our listeners
0:59.2	who have emailed public health question at jhu.edu.
1:03.6	Are you ready?
1:04.7	Yes, I'm ready.
1:05.8	Thanks, Josh.
1:06.8	OK, first question is, are we worried
1:09.6	that once we get over the peak of infections,
1:12.4	and we're starting to think about opening up again, that will suddenly have new surges of infections
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