034 - A Nurse's Perspective on Testing Capacity and Mask Recommendations

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

News, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Why was the US slow to stand up testing and is this improving? Should you wear a cloth mask in your daily activities? Jason Farley, an infectious disease-trained nurse epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, talks to Stephanie Desmon and breaks down the complications of testing for COVID-19 and why recommendations on the public's use of masks may be evolving.

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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.hu.edu for future podcast episodes.
0:42.6	Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Brian Farley, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing,
0:48.5	about the shortage of coronavirus testing and its broad impacts, both on individual health
0:53.2	and public health.
0:55.0	They discuss why the promise that anyone who wants a test could get a test hasn't panned out and what is needed
0:59.6	to move forward. Let's listen. Today I'm here with Jason Farley, a professor at the Johns Hopkins
1:06.7	School of Nursing and an infectious diseases nurse epidemiologist.
1:10.9	My pleasure.
1:11.3	Thank you for joining us.
1:14.3	I'd like to talk today about testing for COVID and the different reasons there are that we
1:20.0	test and how testing is moving along.
1:22.8	I understand that we test, of course, when someone is sick and has symptoms, but there's also public health
1:28.6	reasons to be testing a larger group of people. Yes. So when a person becomes ill and suspects
1:35.6	that they might have COVID, their first response is to reach out to their primary care
1:40.5	provider or to a call center within their local geographic region. It's important that
1:46.4	everyone realized that people may be testing differently in their local region because of the
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