247 - An Update on COVID-19 in Brazil
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
After public health measures helped stem a massive first wave of infections, fatigue set in, and Brazil is now facing the worst moment of the pandemic so far. Dr. Luana Araujo, a public health consultant in Brazil, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about why Brazil is struggling despite a robust universal health care system. She also makes the case for greater inclusion of Brazil in discussions of global health.
KEYWORDS: pandemic response; health communication; vaccine approval
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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 |
| 0:39.0 | at jh.edu. |
| 0:40.5 | That's public health question at jh.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:46.6 | Today we head to Brazil where I speak with Dr. Luana, Arugio, an infectious disease physician |
| 0:53.9 | and alumna of the Johns Hopkins |
| 0:55.5 | Bloomberg School of Public Health. In addition to seeing patients, Dr. Arujo runs a website devoted |
| 1:01.5 | to providing accurate information about the COVID pandemic. Let's listen. Dr. Araujo, thank |
| 1:09.0 | you so much for joining me. Let's start by you're telling me where you are right now. |
| 1:14.8 | Josh, thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:17.6 | Currently, I live in Brazil. |
| 1:19.5 | I live in a town that is called Bel Horizonte, |
| 1:22.9 | is the capital of the state of Miniseries in the southeast of Brazil. |
| 1:27.0 | Right now, you have studied public health. |
| 1:29.3 | You are an infectious disease physician, |
| 1:31.3 | and you run a website with good scientific information for people. |
| 1:36.3 | What is the situation right now with the pandemic in Brazil? |
| 1:41.3 | Well, situation is probably the worst that we have seen so far. |
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