176 - Friday Q&A with Dr. Josh Sharfstein on the Week in COVID
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
This week we put the former principal deputy commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Josh Sharfstein, on the other side of the mic to answer questions about some of this week's remarkable list of COVID news.
How damaging are conflicting messages from the White House about COVID-19? What happened between the FDA and the White House over COVID-19 vaccine safety? Is Regeneron, a cocktail of monoclonal antibodies, really a "cure"? And why is the New England Journal of Medicine heating up on social media?
Dr. Sharfstein talks with Stephanie Desmon about all this and more.
KEYWORDS: vaccine authorization; health communication; COVID-19 therapy
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 2 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins |
| 0:11.6 | Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, |
| 0:18.8 | and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. |
| 0:21.9 | Our goal is to bring scientific evidence and experience to the public health news of the day |
| 0:27.3 | through informative interviews with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public health |
| 0:32.7 | officials, clinicians, and more. If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, |
| 0:38.4 | please email us at public health question at jhhhue.edu. |
| 0:43.1 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:49.5 | Today's Friday Q&A podcast, Stephanie Desmond, |
| 0:53.0 | asked me a bunch of questions about COVID, the White House, FDA, |
| 0:58.6 | and well, let's listen. |
| 1:01.4 | Josh Sharfstein, thanks so much for joining me again. |
| 1:04.1 | Thanks, Stephanie, for having me on your podcast. |
| 1:07.1 | Or your podcast. So today I'm talking to you, my favorite public health expert. I want before we |
| 1:14.8 | launch in, I really want to remind people of your resume as an expert in the field. Not only are you |
| 1:21.2 | one of the deans of the School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins, but you're also, you have previously |
| 1:27.3 | served in leadership positions in |
| 1:29.2 | the Baltimore City Health Department, the Maryland State Health Department, and the FDA. So you |
| 1:34.7 | definitely bring the right credentials to this conversation. And I wanted to start today our Q&A |
| 1:40.7 | with question about public health messages, mostly surrounding COVID and the White House. |
| 1:47.3 | So I feel like we're getting a lot of conflicting messages. |
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