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, I'm talking to Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo,

senior scholar at the Center for Health Security

at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

We're answering questions that have been coming in

all week about the novel coronavirus.

Let's listen. Dr. Nozzo, thanks so much for joining me. Today's a Friday, so we'll be answering

listener questions. Are you ready? I'm ready. So the first question has to do with the protests

over the killing of George Floyd. What can people do to reduce the risk of contracting coronavirus during

one of the protests? To reduce your risk, you follow the same practices that we recommend anytime you're

out in public. Try to keep physical distance from people, stand at least six feet away if you can.

Certainly wash your hands as much as possible, particularly after you touch common surfaces.

There's no soap available.

Having hand sanitizer on hand could be quite useful, so something probably important to bring

with you.

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