079 - Canada's Response to COVID-19: Featuring Dr. Brian Goldman of CBC's "The Dose" Podcast

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Medicine, News, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Like many countries, Canada recognized the pandemic in stages, but unlike some, Canada used advanced warning to their benefit with swift mandates. Dr. Brian Goldman, host of CBC's "The Dose" podcast, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about how although Canada's response has differed from the US's, the country faces many of the same challenges with testing, outbreaks in vulnerable populations, and a patchwork approach of mandates across provinces.

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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.h. That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast episodes.
0:41.8	Today I am talking to Brian Goldman, a staff emergency physician at Sinai Health System in Toronto.
0:50.3	Dr. Goldman is also the host of two podcasts produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
0:57.0	We speak about two countries and one pandemic. Let's listen.
1:03.0	I'm delighted to be talking to Dr. Brian Goldman, a Canadian emergency department physician and a podcast host about the COVID-19 situation.
1:14.0	How are you doing today?
1:15.6	Well, I'm fine. I'm safe. I am practicing physical distancing. I'm working from home.
1:22.1	And aside from my work in the emergency department when I'm doing shifts, that's one of the few
1:27.4	times when I venture out.
1:29.0	I run three times a week, 10, 10 kilometers.
1:32.4	We don't call them miles.
1:33.2	We call them kilometers in Canada.
1:34.9	And so that's how I get my exercise.
1:37.7	And I'm spending a lot more time with my family
1:39.6	than I ordinarily would, which is a good thing.
1:43.0	Got it.
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