341: Julie Gerberding | Answering Your COVID-19 Questions
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2020
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Julie Gerberding is the former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR).
What We Discuss with Julie Gerberding:- What makes COVID-19 so uniquely dangerous compared to other diseases and would-be pandemics we've encountered in the past century?
- Is staying six feet away from other people really safe enough, and will we have to practice social distancing until we get a COVID-19 vaccine?
- Is the rapid spread of information -- and misinformation -- by way of the Internet more helpful or hurtful to our efforts to contain the spread of the virus?
- Why did even our most trusted sources -- like the CDC -- initially discourage us from wearing masks and now insist on them for leaving the house?
- How much does political pressure from a presidential administration affect the job of a CDC director?
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:06.1 | As always, I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:08.8 | On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's |
| 0:12.3 | most brilliant people, and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to impact |
| 0:16.6 | your own life and those around you. |
| 0:18.5 | We want to help you see the matrix when it comes to how these amazing people think and |
| 0:22.3 | behave and we want you to become a better thinker. |
| 0:25.2 | If you're new to the show, we've got episodes with spies and CEOs, athletes and authors, |
| 0:29.4 | thinkers and performers, as well as toolboxes for skills like negotiation, body language, |
| 0:34.0 | persuasion and more. |
| 0:35.0 | So, if you're smart and you like to learn and improve, you'll be right at home here with |
| 0:38.9 | us. |
| 0:39.9 | We've got a special episode of the show here today. |
| 0:42.3 | Right on the heels of me promising not to talk about COVID-19 all the time, today I |
| 0:47.0 | bring you the former director of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, |
| 0:52.3 | Julie Gerberding. |
| 0:53.6 | Gerberding led the CDC's efforts to prepare for and counter terrorism. |
| 0:57.1 | She's an associate clinical professor of medicine, infectious diseases, over at Emory University |
| 1:01.8 | and an associate professor of medicine, also infectious diseases, at the University of |
| 1:05.8 | California in San Francisco. |
| 1:07.6 | She later went on to head Merck Pharmaceuticals Vaccine Program. |
| 1:10.7 | So, she knows what she's talking about when it comes to infectious disease, vaccine |
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