283 - Where Are We in the Pandemic? Friday Q&A with Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo from the Center for Health Security
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Is the recovery on track or about to be derailed? What can we do alongside vaccines to step down case numbers? What does the CDC's relaxed guidance for 3-feet of distance for kids mean for schools reopening? What are the key metrics of vaccine success?
Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo from the Center for Health Security returns to the podcast to talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein and answer some questions about yet another pivotal moment in the pandemic.
KEYWORDS: health equity; racial disparity; social determinants of health
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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 at jhh.edu. |
| 0:41.1 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:47.3 | Today, for a Friday Q&A episode, I catch up with Jennifer Nuzzo, |
| 0:52.4 | senior scholar at the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins. |
| 0:56.7 | Let's listen. |
| 0:58.4 | Jennifer Nuzzo, thank you so much for coming back to public health on call. |
| 1:02.2 | It's been a while since your first time on the podcast. |
| 1:05.2 | It has. Thanks for having me back. |
| 1:06.8 | I think you were a guest in our very first week. |
| 1:09.6 | So I have some questions for you like I did back then a entire year ago. |
| 1:16.6 | First is the epidemiology of where we are now. |
| 1:21.3 | I think it'd be fair to say we are seeing some mixed signals. |
| 1:24.3 | There are some places where the cases are actually rising. There's |
| 1:28.3 | concerned over variance. Other people are pretty optimistic, though, about the rapid pace of the |
| 1:35.0 | vaccination campaign. Where do you think we're headed in the short term? I think it's a mixed |
| 1:39.7 | signal, and it really has a mixed signal depending, in part, where you live. And it seems like |
| 1:44.1 | the biggest |
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