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 Dr. Albert Wu, a physician and public health researcher at Johns

Hopkins. They discuss how COVID-19 isn't just a respiratory illness and how we keep learning more with every passing week about how the novel coronavirus impacts the heart, the brain, the kidneys, and even the toes.

Let's listen.

Albert Wu, thanks so much for joining me.

Well, I am just delighted to be here.

Thank you.

So I feel like we might be entering a stage of sort of social distancing fatigue.

Mobile data is showing that more people are leaving their homes.

We've all seen those pictures of packed beaches and the mall teaming with people in Washington

and parks. I think people might be

starting to get tired of this, but at the same time, from a clinical standpoint, sounds like we

need to keep this up. I would agree with you 100%, though I will say that this is very predictable.

There is a bit of research on the fact that after disasters,

there are predictable ways that it affects people's mental health,

and there's an initial impact phase, followed by a kind of heroic phase.

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