120 - Checking in with Dr. Chris Beyrer and COVID-19 in Jails, Prisons, and Detention Centers

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Medicine, News, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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This week, we're checking in with guests we interviewed earlier in the pandemic. Today, Stephanie Desmon gets an update from epidemiologist Dr. Chris Beyrer about the status of the pandemic in jails, prisons, and immigration detention centers. Beyrer also talks about the victories they've had with decarceration and releases of individuals who are high-risk for serious COVID-19 illness, the role of community transmission, and what still needs to be done to get hotspots under control.

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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.hu.edu for future podcast episodes.
0:42.3	This new podcast has been downloaded more than 1.5 million times over the last five months,
0:48.2	thanks to listeners like you. Next week we'll be launching season two of the podcast, bringing you
0:53.0	more evidence and experience
0:54.6	about a broader range of topics, including but not limited to COVID-19.
0:59.5	This week, we're checking in with people we interviewed in some of our most powerful episodes
1:03.6	from season one.
1:05.0	Today, Stephanie Desmond talks again to Dr. Chris Byer, a Johns Hopkins epidemiologist, who
1:10.5	we heard from in April.
1:11.9	She gets an update on the state of COVID-19 in jails, prisons, and detention centers.
1:17.6	The numbers are not encouraging.
1:19.6	Let's listen.
1:21.5	Chris Byer, thank you so much for joining me.
1:23.8	Delighted to be here.
1:24.7	So we spoke several months ago now about the issue of COVID in jails and prisons and detention
1:32.8	centers.
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