371 - Appreciation and Hostility: Working With COVID-19 Patients
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
For a year and a half, Johns Hopkins infectious disease doctor Kelly Gebo has been working with people who have been diagnosed with COVID-19. Gebo and a team of medical professionals triage COVID outpatients in a "pod" outside of the hospital where people diagnosed with COVID can come for convalescent plasma and care. Gebo talks about seeing patients in sleet and extreme heat, the parallels of her work with HIV patients in the 1990s, and how while many patients are appreciative, some are angry or frustrated and may have been exposed to misinformation that makes care more difficult.
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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. |
| 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. |
| 0:46.6 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call. Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to |
| 0:52.1 | Kelly Gibo, an infectious diseases doctor at Johns Hopkins, |
| 0:56.0 | who has been triaging COVID-19 patients outside the hospital for more than a year. |
| 1:00.7 | She talks about the dedication of her medical team and the sometimes difficult interactions |
| 1:05.0 | with patients who don't believe they really have the virus. |
| 1:08.2 | Let's listen. |
| 1:09.9 | Kelly Gibo, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:12.1 | Thank you for having me. I'm looking forward to their conversation. So you are an infectious |
| 1:16.1 | disease doctor at Johns Hopkins, and your role has dramatically changed over the course of COVID. |
| 1:23.0 | Paint a picture for our listeners about the work that you guys have been doing. So I have done a number of things with COVID over the past year and a half. |
| 1:31.3 | I originally was at NIH working on some projects with NIH, |
| 1:35.3 | looking at COVID in much larger populations of patients. |
| 1:40.3 | And now, I'm back at Johns Hopkins, working on a trial looking at the use of convalescent plasma, |
| 1:48.0 | which is the liquid part of blood, to see if it's helpful in trying to prevent complications |
| 1:53.1 | from people who have outpatient COVID infection. |
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