296 - Making Safe Decisions During the Race of "Infections vs Injections"
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
We're in a strange "limbo" where vaccinations are on the rise, but so are hospitalizations. Epidemiologist Keri Althoff and mental health expert Elizabeth Stuart return to the podcast to talk with Stephanie Desmon about making safe decisions, why vaccinated people shouldn't take off their masks just yet, and the need for flexibility as mixed messaging and lots of transitions may be the "new normal" for now.
KEYWORDS: herd immunity; viral mutation; policy
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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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| 0:47.2 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of Public Health On Call. |
| 0:50.9 | Today, Carrie Altaff and Elizabeth Stewart returned to the podcast to talk to Stephanie |
| 0:55.1 | Desmond about how to make safe decisions during this strange limbo time of the COVID pandemic, |
| 1:01.6 | where vaccinations are on the rise, but so are hospitalizations. Let's listen. |
| 1:06.8 | Carrie Altaff and Elizabeth Stewart, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:10.0 | Thanks for having us. |
| 1:10.9 | Yeah, thanks. |
| 1:11.8 | So I wanted to talk today about sort of this strange moment in time we're experiencing |
| 1:16.2 | with regards to COVID. |
| 1:17.7 | There's a lot of people getting vaccinated. |
| 1:19.6 | We're hearing about millions of people a day getting their vaccines in America. |
| 1:24.4 | But in many places in the United States, there's a lot of new cases coming along. |
| 1:28.3 | And so I feel like we're getting lots of different messages, and it's hard to know which ones |
| 1:33.2 | to follow. Liz, would you start? Tell me about what you're seeing. Yeah, it's a great question. |
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