062 - An Emergency Medicine Expert Answers More of Your COVID-19 Questions

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

News, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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What makes this virus different from hundreds of other similar viruses? What happens if parents don't take their children for routine immunizations? Does prone body positioning help ICU patients? Does coronavirus spread best in wet or dry environments? What are randomized control trials and why is everyone talking about them? Is it possible to give someone a tattoo from six feet away? Lauren Sauer, director of Operations with the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response (CEPAR) and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine, 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.u.edu for future podcast episodes.
0:42.5	Today, I'm asking listener questions to Lauren Sauer, the director of research at the Johns Hopkins
0:48.7	Biocontainment Unit, and the director of operations with the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness
0:55.4	and Response. Let's listen. Thanks so much, Lauren, for joining me today. We're going to be
1:02.0	answering questions from listeners of the podcast. Are you ready? Absolutely. Okay, here's the first one.
1:08.5	What makes this upper respiratory infection, which is caused by an RNA virus, any different from 200 other upper respiratory infections that are caused by different RNA viruses?
1:20.3	I think there's two key differences. The first is that it's causing severe disease. It's making people really sick. And that causes big strains on the
1:28.6	health care system. It causes challenges at the individual level. And it can make people very sick
1:35.1	or kill them. The other key difference is that we just don't know much about it compared to many
1:40.3	of the other common RNA viruses that cause upper respiratory infections every day.
1:45.6	Great. Here's a question. Our childhood immunization schedule has been put on hold. I think
1:51.8	maybe not officially, but I think maybe unofficially people are not bringing their kids in
1:57.2	to the pediatrician. Is that going to be a concern? It's definitely going to be a concern.
2:03.8	We worry about childhood immunizations anyway. And when hospitals are strained and we want to reduce
2:10.8	the amount of time people spend in the health care setting or in the hospital or at clinics,
2:16.0	because they're at risk to getting the disease.
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