121 - Checking in with Dr. Justin Lessler and What We Now Know—And Still Don't—About COVID-19

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Medicine, News, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

This week, we're checking in with guests we interviewed earlier in the pandemic. Today, Dr. Josh Sharfstein gets an update from infectious disease epidemiologist Dr. Justin Lessler who was one of our very first podcast guests. Back in March, there were a lot of unanswered questions. Lessler talks about what we now know about transmission and fatality rates and what questions remain, what needs to happen in the short term to get cases under control, and what might be a truly transformative innovation in the fight against COVID-19.

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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.
0:42.1	This new podcast has been downloaded over 1.5 million times in the past five months.
0:47.9	Thanks to listeners like you.
0:50.2	Next week we'll be launching season two of the podcast, bring you more evidence and experience about a broader range of topics, including but not limited to COVID-19.
1:00.2	This week, we're checking in with some people we interviewed in some of our original episodes from season one.
1:06.3	Today, I'm speaking with Dr. Justin Lessler, our very first interviewee on the podcast.
1:12.5	Dr. Lusler is an expert in infectious disease dynamics, and when we first spoke, he had a lot
1:18.2	of unanswered questions about the novel coronavirus.
1:21.8	Now, he still has some.
1:24.1	Let's listen.
1:25.3	Dr. Lester, thank you so much for coming back on the Public Health On Call podcast.
1:29.4	I remember our first interview, because I was actually
1:32.9	in your office physically, probably seated about six feet away,
1:39.1	asking you questions.
1:40.8	At the time, I remember you were quite concerned about the virus and predicted that it could well spread across the world.
1:53.2	I want to start by just asking what we've learned about the virus since then, And what do you think about its potential
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