344 - "The Work Undone": The 40th Anniversary of AIDS and Lessons For the COVID-19 Pandemic
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
On June 5, 1981, the CDC identified a cluster of five cases of a rare pneumonia occurring in previously healthy young, homosexual men in the US. Forty years later, despite great advances in therapies for prevention, and extending life expectancy and quality of life, the pandemic is still growing in some places and killing millions around the world. Epidemiologist Dr. Chris Beyrer, associate director of the Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS research, talks with Stephanie Desmon about the work that still needs to be done, what we've learned from the AIDS pandemic, and how we need to apply these lessons to the global COVID-19 response.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 4 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former Commissioner of Health in Baltimore City. |
| 0:20.0 | Our goal is to bring |
| 0:21.7 | scientific evidence and experience to current topics in public health through engaging interviews |
| 0:27.1 | with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. |
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| 0:40.4 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:46.7 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call. Today, Stephanie Desmond brings |
| 0:52.6 | Johns Hopkins epidemiologist Dr. Chris Byer back to the podcast, |
| 0:57.2 | this time to talk about a difficult milestone, the 40th anniversary of the HIV AIDS epidemic. |
| 1:04.0 | They discuss the lessons that have been learned and not learned since then, and what they mean |
| 1:08.9 | in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 1:12.0 | Let's listen. |
| 1:13.6 | Chris Byer, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:16.0 | Wonderful to be here, Stephanie. |
| 1:17.8 | Today I'd like to talk to you about the 40th anniversary of the first report of AIDS in the United |
| 1:25.2 | States. |
| 1:26.0 | You've recently published a piece in science called The Work Undone. |
| 1:30.3 | Could you tell me about that? |
| 1:31.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.3 | So, you know, it's an extraordinary anniversary. |
| 1:35.3 | This was June 5th, 1981. |
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