248 - Dating in a Pandemic
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Dating is already so much about trust and safety—COVID-19 adds new complications. Dr. Keri Althoff and Dr. Laura Murray return to the podcast to talk with Stephanie Desmon about why human connection is so important, how to navigate difficult conversations, the new ways people are meeting—not just online!—and how COVID-19 may change dating forever, possibly for the best.
KEYWORDS: community mental health; social distancing; young adults
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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 |
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| 0:47.0 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith Rogers, producer of Public Health On Call. Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to |
| 0:52.2 | Dr. Carrie Altoff and Dr. Laura Murray of Johns Hopkins about dating in a pandemic. |
| 0:57.7 | They talk about balancing the risks of COVID-19 with the need for human contact and how trust takes on a whole new meeting when a single date can mean exposure to a deadly disease. |
| 1:08.4 | Let's listen. |
| 1:09.8 | Carrie Altaff and Laura Murray, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:13.2 | Thanks for having us. |
| 1:14.5 | Thanks, Stephanie. |
| 1:15.7 | So let's talk today about dating in a pandemic. |
| 1:20.7 | So, you know, dating in general, of course, is extremely fraught with all kinds of emotion |
| 1:26.6 | and all kinds of, you know, concerns about trust |
| 1:30.3 | and concerns about safety. And I guess the pandemic, obviously, is, adds a whole bunch of new layers |
| 1:38.1 | to it. And I want to start with you, Laura. I mean, couldn't we just have people not date during the pandemic? |
| 1:46.6 | Well, good question, Stephanie. I'm not sure that would be the best thing. I think there's probably |
| 1:52.1 | a lot of folks out there saying, please don't take this away for me. You know, human connection is so |
| 1:57.6 | important. And developmentally, you know, it's really important to |
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