118 - Checking In with Dr. Arturo Casadevall and the COVID-19 Plasma Project

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Medicine, News, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Dr. Josh Sharfstein gets an update from Dr. Arturo Casadevall about the innovative idea of using convalescent serum from patients who have recovered from COVID-19 to help others. Since we last heard from him, Dr. Casadevall has launched a plasma project that, along with others across the US, has helped over 35,000 COVID-19 patients. Casadevall also talks about how data from the project can help with vaccine and other therapy developments

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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.
0:42.5	This new podcast has been downloaded more than 1.5 million times over the last five months,
0:48.1	thanks to listeners like you.
0:49.8	Next week we'll be launching season two of the podcast, bringing you more evidence and experience
0:54.1	about a broader range of topics, including but not limited to COVID-19.
0:58.5	This week, we're checking in with people we interviewed in some of our most powerful
1:02.1	episodes from season one.
1:03.9	Today, I'm speaking with Dr. Arturo Casa de Val, who told us several months ago about the
1:08.9	innovative idea of using plasma from patients who have recovered from COVID-19 to help others.
1:15.3	Well, a lot has happened since then. Let's listen.
1:18.9	Dr. Kasidabal, thank you for joining me again.
1:22.3	When we spoke a few months ago, you were explaining the potential value of convalescent serum for patients
1:29.6	with the novel coronavirus. Could you explain what that is all about one more time?
1:34.0	Right. So this convalescent plasma therapy is the use of plasma, and plasma is the liquid
1:41.4	part of the blood, the part of the doesn't have all the red cells,
1:45.3	the white cells, for treatment of infectious diseases.
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