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.u.edu for future podcast episodes.

Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Dr. Megan Shudy, a pediatrician at Johns Hopkins,

about the seismic shift in how she and her colleagues are treating children during the pandemic.

They also discuss concerns about kids' mental and physical well-being

as the world has shut down around them.

Let's listen.

Dr. Schutie, thank you so much for being with me today.

Thank you for having me.

So tell me a little bit about your job and the people you work with.

So I am the medical director at a clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital that's called the Harriet Lane Clinic.

We are a clinic that serves 8,500 children and adolescents in Baltimore from some of the most vulnerable neighborhoods.

So most of the children that we see are on public insurance. So they really are some of the most vulnerable neighborhoods. So most of the children that we see are

on public insurance. So they really are some of the kids who are vulnerable because of the economic

state that their families are in. That's the main pipe. Go ahead. I'm going to ask you sort of how

COVID has impacted them directly, but a little more about how you're concerned it's impacting them

indirectly. So I think COVID is just a seismic shift for everyone. It's the seismic shift in the

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