266 - Caution and COVID-19: Why Vigilance Still Matters
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Morale is up and case numbers are down at Johns Hopkins Hospital, but infection prevention expert Dr. Lisa Maragakis says vaccines are in a race against variants and we shouldn't let our guard down. Dr. Maragakis talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about "watching evolution in real time" with mutations of SARS-CoV-2, staying the course with infection prevention, and when things could really take a turn for the better if we resist the urge to relax too much, too quickly.
KEYWORDS: viral mutation; herd immunity; pandemic 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. |
| 0:41.1 | That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:47.1 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, the producer of Public Health On Call. |
| 0:50.8 | Today, Dr. Josh Sharfstein is speaking to Dr. Lisa Marigakis, the director of infection |
| 0:56.4 | prevention at the Johns Hopkins Health System. Remember that time when the Dallas Cowboys |
| 1:01.8 | football player celebrated a sure touchdown too early and fumbled the ball? Dr. Marigakis does, |
| 1:08.2 | and she's thinking about it these days with respect to COVID-19. |
| 1:11.9 | Let's listen. |
| 1:13.3 | Dr. Lisa Marigakis, it's great to talk again. |
| 1:16.0 | How are things going with COVID at Johns Hopkins? |
| 1:18.9 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:20.3 | You know, we are heading into brighter days. |
| 1:23.6 | The numbers of cases and hospitalizations are coming down, thankfully, and we are so grateful to see this. |
| 1:32.2 | You know, everyone is very tired, you know, so it has been a long winter so far, but we're really pleased to see the numbers improving. |
| 1:41.1 | What's morale like inside the hospital? |
| 1:43.1 | Do people feel that sense of improvement, |
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