099 - Dr. Leana Wen on Reopening Risks, Alarming Trends, and How We Could Prevent Another 100,000 COVID-19 Deaths

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

News, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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The rapid pace of reopening the US without the public health capacity to contain the virus has Dr. Leana Wen worried. Wen talks with Stephanie Desmon about the current state of the pandemic, what we did and didn't learn from the surge in New York, what individuals can do to reduce their risks, and what policy makers should be doing to prevent another 100,000 deaths and countless suffering.

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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 speaks with Dr. Lena Wynne, an emergency physician and public health
0:48.9	professor at George Washington University. Dr. Wend is also the former health commissioner
0:54.0	for the city of Baltimore. She tells Stephanie that many states are opening Washington University. Dr. Wen is also the former health commissioner
0:54.2	for the city of Baltimore.
0:56.1	She tells Stephanie that many states are opening up too soon,
0:59.9	despite a virus that is still as dangerous as ever.
1:04.5	Let's listen.
1:06.0	Dr. Lena Wen, thank you so much for joining me.
1:08.6	I'm happy to be with you.
1:09.7	Thank you for inviting me. So I happy to be with you. Thank you for inviting me.
1:16.8	So I wanted to talk to you sort of about how we're reopening in a lot of places.
1:18.6	So the virus has not gone away.
1:20.7	We're really in the same position.
1:21.6	We've always been.
1:23.5	In many states, it's actually surging.
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