245 - COVID-19 Research Update: Reinfection in a Health Care Worker, Why Men Might Experience More Serious Disease, and a Look at an Inhaled Antiviral Treatment
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Dr. Josh Sharfstein talks with Hopkins researchers who break down three COVID-19 research papers: Dr. Sheree Schwartz talks about a preprint study of a healthcare worker who experienced COVID-19 twice; Dr. Nikolas Wada talks about a study of why some people, especially men, may have more serious disease from COVID-19; and Dr. Ashwin Balagopal talked about a clinical trial for an inhaled Interferon treatment. All three Hopkins faculty are part of the novel coronavirus research consortium, with many summaries of new studies available at http://ncrc.jhsph.edu
KEYWORDS: COVID-19 therapy; immune response
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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 |
| 0:34.4 | or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question |
| 0:38.8 | at jh.edu. |
| 0:40.5 | That's public health question at jh.hu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:46.6 | Today, we are catching up with experts involved in the novel coronavirus research compendium, |
| 0:52.6 | the website that tracks new studies about the pandemic. |
| 0:56.0 | First, we'll hear from Dr. Cherie Schwartz |
| 0:59.0 | of the School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins |
| 1:01.0 | about a pre-print study of a healthcare worker |
| 1:04.0 | who experienced COVID-19 twice. |
| 1:08.0 | Then we'll hear from Dr. Nicholas Wada |
| 1:10.0 | about a study published in the journal Science, |
| 1:13.4 | explaining why some people, particularly men, might experience more severe COVID disease. |
| 1:19.7 | Finally, we'll hear from Dr. Ashwin Paula Gopal of the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins |
| 1:24.6 | about a study published in the Lancet respiratory medicine of a clinical trial |
| 1:30.7 | of inhaled interferon with promising results. |
| 1:34.4 | You can read more about these and other studies |
| 1:36.7 | at ncrc.jhspsph.edu. |
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