357 - The Link Between Evictions and Rising COVID-19 Cases
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Recent research led by Craig Pollack of Johns Hopkins and Kathryn Leifheit of UCLA suggests that more than 433,000 excess cases and 10,700 excess deaths from COVID-19 in 2020 were associated with the lifting of eviction moratoriums in various states. They talk to Stephanie Desmon about the impact of a recently reinstated eviction moratorium, the staggering amount of back rent owed in the United States, and how much the pandemic has exposed larger problems in the housing market.
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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 |
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| 0:40.4 | That's public health question at jhhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:46.5 | Today, Stephanie Desmond talks with Craig Pollock from Johns Hopkins and Kate Lifehite of |
| 0:52.5 | UCLA about evictions during the pandemic and their |
| 0:56.3 | link to a rise in COVID-19 cases. They also discussed the reinstatement of a federal |
| 1:02.3 | eviction moratorium and what the future looks like for millions of renters behind on $23 billion |
| 1:09.4 | in rent in the United States. |
| 1:12.9 | Let's listen. |
| 1:14.9 | Craig Pollock and Kate Lifehite, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:18.6 | Today we want to talk about evictions and COVID. |
| 1:22.6 | There's been a lot in the news, in recent days, about this. |
| 1:26.6 | I'd like to talk about a study you did recently |
| 1:28.5 | about how evictions are associated with COVID cases. Kate, could you start? Sure. So this is a |
| 1:38.2 | study that was published in the American Journal of Epidemiology a couple weeks ago. And we found looking at a period in summer |
| 1:46.6 | 2020, so this is last summer when most of the eviction protections were happening at the state |
| 1:52.7 | level. And we found that when states ended their eviction moratoriums, we saw 430,000 more COVID cases and over 10,000 more deaths |
| 2:03.5 | during that period from March to September 2020 than we would have if states had kept |
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