084 - The Chief Medical Officer for Prevention at the American Heart Association on the Intersections of Cardiovascular Disease, Health Equity, and COVID-19

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Medicine, News, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Underlying medical conditions such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and Type II diabetes are risk factors for critical illness or death from COVID-19. Just as these chronic health issues disproportionately impact different racial and ethnic groups in the US, so too is COVID-19. Dr. Eduardo Sanchez of the American Heart Association talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about how the US's failure to address the underlying health of its populations is contributing to COVID-19 fatalities and what needs to be done to preserve the health, wellbeing, and the economic viability of our nation.

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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
0:40.1	for future podcast episodes.
0:43.2	Today, I am talking to Dr. Eduardo Sanchez,
0:46.8	the chief medical officer for prevention
0:49.5	at the American Heart Association.
0:51.9	We discussed the intersection between the risk
0:54.6	for cardiovascular disease and the risk of serious illness
0:58.3	or death from COVID-19.
1:01.1	And what it means for the kinds of changes needed
1:03.9	in our health care system and in our society.
1:08.0	Let's listen.
1:10.6	Dr. Sanchez, thanks so much for joining me.
1:12.6	From your position in the American Heart Association, when you're looking at what's happening with COVID-19 right now, what's top of mind?
1:20.6	Thank you, Josh, for having me. Let me start with this.
1:22.6	I am the Chief Medical Officer for Prevention at AHA, but my background is in family medicine.
1:28.9	I'm trained in that, but I'm also a public health doc.
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