049 - What's Next With COVID-19: Considerations for Reopening Gyms, Bars, and other Non-essential Businesses

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

News, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Much of our world was suddenly postponed, canceled, or shuttered in the last month or so. There's now an opportunity to be more thoughtful about reopening. There are risks either way: wait too long and there are consequences for health, safety, and the economy. Open too soon, and viral transmission may ramp up and out of control. Dr. Caitlin Rivers of the Center for Health Security is coauthor of a recent report geared towards governors considering how to reopen non-essential businesses. She talks to Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the basic principles behind deciding when to reopen bars, gyms, salons, and other nonessential businesses.

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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.edu for future podcast episodes.
0:42.7	Today, I'm speaking to Dr. Caitlin Rivers,
0:45.3	senior scholar at the Center for Health Security
0:47.7	at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
0:50.7	She is the lead author of a new report
0:53.2	about what comes next for schools, businesses,
0:57.0	sports, and entertainment.
0:59.0	The report is called Public Health Principles for a Phased Reopening during COVID-19,
1:06.0	Guidance for Governors.
1:08.0	Let's listen.
1:10.0	Thank you, Dr. Rivers, for joining me. Tell me about this report on
1:13.6	reopening the economy. We are facing a time now when we're hearing more about the decision to
1:19.9	reopen. And although it's not time to actually get on with the reopening yet, we know that
1:24.5	there are a lot of decisions coming down the pipeline about how and when to reopen
1:28.6	and what should we be reopening. And so this report considers various sectors that have been deemed
1:35.3	non-essential, which is to say they are currently closed, and thinking through what might governors
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