053 - Unlocking More Secrets of COVID-19: Seasonality, Flu Comparisons, and What We're Learning in the Lab

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

News, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Virologist Dr. Andrew Pekosz returns to the podcast with an update on what his team has learned about COVID-19. Pekosz and Stephanie Desmon discuss further indications that COVID-19 may not be seasonal, why COVID-19 is "the flu on steroids," and how learning about how the virus replicates in our upper respiratory tracts could hold clues for treatment and prevention. PLUS: An update on the convalescent plasma therapy trial.

Learn more: 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 for future podcast episodes.
0:42.8	Today, Stephanie Desmond speaks to Andrew Peckosch, a virologist at the Johns Hopkins
0:48.0	Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a previous guest on this podcast.
0:52.1	This time, they talk about whether people can be
0:54.9	reinfected with the novel coronavirus.
0:58.5	Let's listen.
1:00.7	Today I'm here with Andy Peckos, a virologist at Johns Hopkins.
1:06.0	We're going to talk about how we figure out
1:08.4	how many people have been infected with COVID-19 and what that means going
1:12.2	forward. Andy, thank you so much for being with me. Oh, it's my pleasure. Thanks for having me.
1:16.9	I wanted to talk to you first about these antibody tests that I've been hearing a lot about. First,
1:22.0	could you tell me what an antibody test is and what it will tell you? Yeah, so the antibodies are what
1:26.7	we make in response to an infection.
1:28.9	And right now, there's a lot of emphasis on coming up with antibody tests so that we can
1:34.8	understand essentially two questions. One is, who's been infected with this virus? There's been a lot of
1:41.5	mild disease reported after infection.
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