180 - Thinking Through The Fall and Winter Holidays During COVID-19: Innovative Ways to Gather and Celebrate
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Halloween is approaching, followed by Thanksgiving and the winter holidays. What should parents and families be thinking about? Elizabeth Stuart and Keri Althoff return to the podcast to talk with Stephanie Desmon about how COVID-19 will impact the holidays and may move life indoors as the weather cools off. They discuss how to make celebrations special, how to think about travel and hosting, and how to plan for the unexpected.
KEYWORDS: social distancing; child health
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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 jhhhu.edu. |
| 0:43.1 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:49.8 | Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to two Johns Hopkins professors, Elizabeth Stewart and |
| 0:55.7 | Carrie Altaff, about how COVID-19 will impact Halloween, Thanksgiving, and life inside as |
| 1:03.1 | the weather cools off. |
| 1:04.9 | They discuss coming up with ways to make this year's celebrations special despite the |
| 1:09.3 | pandemic and how to plan for the unexpected. |
| 1:13.0 | Let's listen. |
| 1:14.8 | Carrie Altaff and Elizabeth Stewart, thank you so much for joining me. |
| 1:18.4 | Thanks for having us. |
| 1:20.7 | So Carrie, I'm going to start with you. |
| 1:22.5 | The listeners can't see this, but I can see the skeleton taped up to the window in your office there. So let's start |
| 1:29.0 | with Halloween. It's coming up soon. I know you've got little kids. What should parents, families, |
| 1:36.8 | be thinking about, even folks without kids when it comes to Halloween? I'm not sure door-to-door |
| 1:41.9 | trick-treating is the answer? Absolutely. There are a lot of questions |
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