243 - Vaccine Week Finale: Q&A with Dr. Josh Sharfstein
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
How do I find out where to get vaccinated? How much flexibility in timing is there for the second dose? If I've gotten vaccinated, can I be infected by one of the new variants? Should I get the vaccine if I currently have COVID? Can the vaccine alleviate long-hauler symptoms or long-term loss of taste or smell?
Dr. Josh Sharfstein talks with Stephanie Desmon to answer listener questions about COVID-19 vaccines.
KEYWORDS: long-term symptoms; viral mutation; household transmission
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 3, a Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. |
| 0:19.6 | Our goal is to bring scientific evidence |
| 0:22.4 | and experience to the public health news of the day through informative interviews with scientists, |
| 0:27.8 | community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. If you have ideas |
| 0:34.3 | or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question |
| 0:38.7 | at jhhhu.edu. |
| 0:41.1 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:47.2 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, the producer of Public Health On Call. |
| 0:51.1 | Thank you for joining us for Vaccine Week on the podcast. |
| 0:54.0 | We'll have another week |
| 0:54.9 | of special content lined up starting February 8th while we'll be focusing on schools and education. |
| 1:00.5 | You won't want to miss it. Today, for our Friday Q&A, Stephanie Desmond asks co-host, Dr. Josh |
| 1:06.6 | Sharfstein, who has worked in the past at the State of Maryland's Health Department and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration |
| 1:12.1 | to answer a whole bunch of listener questions about the COVID-19 vaccines. Let's listen. |
| 1:18.6 | Josh Sharfstein, thanks so much for being with me. |
| 1:21.3 | Thanks for having me again, Stephanie. |
| 1:23.2 | So today we are going to go through a bunch of listener questions about the vaccine. |
| 1:29.1 | And we are getting lots and lots of questions. |
| 1:31.1 | It's really on everybody's mind right now. |
| 1:33.7 | So I guess the number one question I have here is how do I find out where to get vaccinated? |
| 1:38.2 | Well, the first thing is whether you're eligible. |
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