183 - The Second COVID-19 Lockdown in Israel
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Early on, Israel surfaced as a pandemic success story when strict lockdowns kept case counts low. The country returned to something close to normal, reopening businesses and schools and resuming gatherings and activities. But the optimism was short-lived, and Israel had to go into a second lockdown when COVID-19 started spreading uncontrolled across the country. Dana Schleifer, director of the impact team in Tel Aviv working on complex city challenges, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the second lockdown and what may happen next.
KEYWORDS: pandemic response; policy; contact tracing
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 2 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, |
| 0:18.7 | 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, please email us at |
| 0:39.8 | Public Health Question at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast |
| 0:47.8 | episodes. In today's episode, I speak to Danish Schleifer, director of the impact team in Tel Aviv Yafo in Israel. |
| 0:56.0 | The impact team is part of city government working on complex city challenges. |
| 1:01.7 | We speak about the COVID situation in Israel. |
| 1:04.7 | This interview was recorded on October 8th during Israel's recent second lockdown. |
| 1:09.9 | Let's listen. |
| 1:11.7 | Director Sleifer, thank you so much for joining me. What's the situation right now with COVID |
| 1:16.5 | in Israel? Right now we've been in, for the past three weeks, we've been in a general |
| 1:22.3 | lockdown after we saw high increase in numbers. Mainly after schools started, we're supposed to continue to be in |
| 1:29.7 | this lockdown until the 14th of October. And this past week, you've seen about 6,000 to 7,000 new |
| 1:38.0 | cases a day. It's just started to decrease. We've also had our deadliest week until now since |
| 1:43.6 | COVID started with almost |
| 1:45.8 | 50 deaths a day in these past couple of days. And this is in a country of about 8.8 million people. So this |
| 1:53.1 | is high. We're starting to see a decrease in the general population. We still have some populations |
| 1:57.5 | that are pretty high and we're hoping to continue to see it go down. |
| 2:03.7 | It's a pretty serious situation at the moment. |
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