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Public Health On Call

089 - How to Reopen Safely: A COVID-19 Toolkit for Businesses

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

News, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.6644 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

As restrictions lift and businesses think about reopening, many aren't sure what they should consider in order to protect their employees and customers. Lucia Mullen and Dr. Crystal Watson co-authored a toolkit for businesses that includes checklists to follow and suggested modifications to put in place before reopening. They talk with Stephanie Desmon about how businesses can assess risk and create solutions that fit their budgets and resources.

Transcript

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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 for future podcast episodes.

0:42.7

Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Lucia Mullen and Dr. Crystal Watson of the Center for

0:48.8

Health Security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health about their new toolkit

0:53.8

that makes it easier

0:55.4

for business owners to understand all the risks of reopening

0:59.2

and to take steps to mitigate them.

1:02.3

Let's listen.

1:04.0

Thank you both so much for joining me.

1:05.7

Thanks very much.

1:07.0

It's our pleasure.

1:08.0

Ruchia, I'd like to start with you.

1:09.9

If you wouldn't mind please telling me a little about why you designed this report and what

1:17.0

does it provide for businesses?

1:19.3

Yes, thank you.

1:20.1

So we actually started thinking of this report and the idea of making it more business-orientated.

1:27.1

Through some of the work we did

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