377: An Update on COVID-19 and India
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Last spring, India experienced a catastrophic wave of COVID-19 infections with more than 100,000 cases per day, exceeding hospital capacity in some areas and leading to oxygen shortages. What has happened since? From their homes in India, infectious disease researchers Dr. Vidya Mave and Dr. Brian Wahl talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the state of the pandemic and the return to daily life.
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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. |
| 0:46.4 | Today, I speak with two Johns Hopkins faculty members working in India. |
| 0:52.0 | One is Dr. Vidya Mave, an associate professor of medicine, an infectious disease specialist, |
| 0:58.2 | and the other is Dr. Brian Wall, an assistant scientist in the Department of International |
| 1:03.5 | Health. |
| 1:04.7 | Let's listen. |
| 1:05.7 | Vidya Mave and Brian Wall, thank you so much for joining the podcast from India. |
| 1:11.5 | Dr. Mave, I'll start with you. |
| 1:13.5 | When India was last in the headlines for COVID in the United States, |
| 1:17.3 | it was during this catastrophic surge in the spring. |
| 1:20.9 | What's been the story since then? |
| 1:23.8 | Thank you for inviting me for this podcast. |
| 1:26.7 | As you mentioned, India was in the news for in the last, |
| 1:30.8 | you know, April, May time for a significant increase in cases and India had the largest second |
| 1:39.2 | wave where India was recording up to 100,000 new cases a day. |
| 1:47.2 | But since then, since somewhere in the mid of May till end of June, the cases started |
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