352 - COVID-19 Research Update: The Delta Variant
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
In this episode, Dr. Josh Sharfstein talks with researchers who break down three papers about the delta variant. Carli Jones, a PhD student at Hopkins School of Medicine talks about a preprint study on the emergence and spread of the delta variant in India. Wendy Grant-McAuley, also a PhD student, talks about an Oxford University paper on how the delta variant responds to various antibodies in a lab setting. Shirlee Wohl, a post-doctoral fellow at the Bloomberg School talks about a preprint looking at an outbreak of the delta variant among vaccinated people at a Texas wedding. These researchers are part of the Hopkins novel coronavirus research consortium, with many summaries of new studies available at http://ncrc.jhsph.edu.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 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. |
| 0:32.8 | If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question at jhhhu.edu. |
| 0:40.4 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:46.2 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of Public Health On Call. |
| 0:50.0 | Today, it's Delta, Delta, Delta. |
| 0:53.5 | Dr. Josh Sharstein catches up with three experts from the |
| 0:57.0 | novel coronavirus research consortium about some of the latest studies on the Delta variant. |
| 1:02.9 | First, he speaks with Carly Jones, a PhD student at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, |
| 1:08.5 | about a pre-print study on the emergence and spread of the Delta |
| 1:12.1 | variant in India from experts in India's National Center for Disease Control. |
| 1:17.9 | Next, we hear from Wendy Grant McCauley, also a PhD student at the School of Medicine, |
| 1:23.0 | about a paper in the journal Cell from Oxford University about how the Delta variant responds in the lab |
| 1:29.6 | to monoclonal antibodies as well as to antibodies in vaccinated people and recovered people. |
| 1:36.1 | Finally, Shirley Vol, a postdoctoral fellow from the School of Public Health, talks about a pre-print |
| 1:42.1 | study from the Baylor College of Medicine. |
| 1:45.1 | The topic? An Outbreak of the Delta variant at a wedding where vaccines were required. |
| 1:51.3 | Let's listen. |
| 1:52.7 | Carly Jones, welcome back to Public Health on call for today's Delta episode. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.