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.

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Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Lucia Mullen and Crystal Watson of the Johns Hopkins Center for

Health Security. They discuss the many factors that colleges and universities must consider

as they weigh reopening in the fall.

Let's listen.

Thank you both so much for being with me again.

Thanks a lot.

It's our pleasure.

So today I'd like to talk about universities.

There's been a lot of talk about whether it will be safe

for students and professors and everybody else involved in a college

education to come back to school in the fall. And I think lots of different universities are

taking lots of different tactics. I saw that at Yale University, the freshmen can come the first semester and the sophomore can come the second

semester. I think a lot of the education will be online. I think it was out in California that

schools just aren't having in-person instruction. And then you see sort of hybrid models.

So I'm wondering sort of, let's just start with, can schools safely reopen universities in the fall?

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