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, Stephanie Desmond brings back Kathleen Day, who has literally written the book on

financial crises.

They discuss the damage being done to the economy by the coronavirus

pandemic, and how a country

with more than 16 million people unemployed can eventually turn itself around.

This interview was recorded on April 13th.

Let's listen.

I'm here today with Kathleen Day, a lecturer at the Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business.

She's an expert on financial crises,

and her new book is called Broken Bargain, which is a history of financial crisis in the United

States. Thanks for joining me. Thank you for having me. So we have actually talked before,

and we talked a lot about the economy in the early weeks of the coronavirus crisis.

Today, we're seeing a whole new landscape, even though it's only been about a month since we

last spoke. We are seeing at least 16.8 million Americans a file for unemployment. Those are

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