378 - What Might the Next Six Months of COVID-19 Look Like in the US?
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Shaun Truelove, an infectious disease epidemiologist, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub's models for the next six months into early 2022. Researchers projected what could happen under four scenarios of vaccination rates, including authorizing vaccines for children, and the possibility for new variants. Spoiler alert: It's not all bad news. Learn more: https://covid19scenariomodelinghub.org/
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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. |
| 0:46.5 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Roggers, producer of public health on call. |
| 0:50.4 | Today, Josh Sharfstein talks to Sean Trulove, an assistant scientist from Johns Hopkins, |
| 0:55.7 | about what models say regarding the future of COVID-19 in the United States. |
| 1:00.6 | Dr. Trulov works with modelers across the country. |
| 1:03.6 | Dr. Sharfstein has a lot of questions. |
| 1:06.7 | Let's listen. |
| 1:08.7 | Sean, Trulove, thank you so much for coming onto the podcast. |
| 1:12.2 | I've been waiting for this interview for a while because I know that you have been working |
| 1:16.6 | on envisioning the future of the pandemic in the United States for some time with modelers |
| 1:23.5 | all around the country, and we're going to talk about what you found. |
| 1:26.6 | Thanks, Josh. I Excited to be here. |
| 1:28.3 | So first step, what it is that you do. |
| 1:31.3 | I know that what this is not is just one person working in their basement, coming up with |
| 1:39.3 | some idea about what's going to happen with the pandemic. |
| 1:42.3 | How does the modeling hub work? |
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