Welcome to Season 2 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins

Bloomberg School of Public Health.

I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement,

and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department.

Our goal is to bring scientific evidence and experience to the public health news of the day

through informative interviews with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public health

officials, clinicians, and more. If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at

Public Health Question at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast

episodes. Today, we are trying out a new type of episode where Johns Hopkins experts tell us about

new research papers on COVID and what they mean.

First, we'll hear from Dr. Andrew Redd about a research study published in the New England

Journal of Medicine about COVID-19 vaccines and whether they might work in older adults.

Then I turned to Dr. Shri Schwartz about a paper published

in morbidity and mortality weekly reports,

that's the CVC's journal, about the implications

of COVID-19 for pregnancy.

Finally, we hear from Dr. Donali Boone about a pre-print paper

on the potential use of rapid COVID tests.

Detailed information about all three of these studies

is linked in our show notes.

You can read analyses of these and many other studies

at the novel coronavirus research compendium

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