109 - COVID-19 Explained With Economist and Bestselling Author, Dr. Emily Oster

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

News, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Brown University economist and bestselling author Dr. Emily Oster is probably best known for her writing about parenting and childbirth. Now, she's taken her data-centric approach to demystify the COVID-19 pandemic on a new website, explaincovid.org. Oster talks with Stephanie Desmon about the most frequently asked questions, what the data says about childcare facilities that have remained open, how schools should approach reopening in the fall, and why this virus has been so confusing for so many.

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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
0:41.2	episodes.
0:42.8	Today, Stephanie Desmond speaks to Emily Oster, a Brown University
0:47.1	economist and best-selling author, about her efforts to explain
0:51.0	COVID and its risks to people in simple and understandable bites.
0:55.9	Let's listen.
0:57.5	Emily Oster, thank you so much for joining me.
1:00.1	Thanks for having me.
1:01.5	So I want to start with sort of a possibly obvious question, which is, so you're an economics
1:08.0	professor, and you are definitely studying these days, writing these days about
1:15.9	COVID and not necessarily the economic impacts of COVID. So talk to me about sort of how you
1:21.5	got here. So I am an economics professor, but I have a sideline in writing about parenting and childbirth.
1:31.1	So I have two books about using data in pregnancy and early parenting.
1:37.1	And so I had started, I have a newsletter in which I talk about the stuff from those books.
1:43.0	And then when the pandemic hit, I started
1:45.8	talking more and more about COVID and around the issues that parents were thinking about
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