419 - COVID-19 in Lincoln, Nebraska: The Mayor's View
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Lincoln, Nebraska has fared quite well compared to counties with similar demographics: the county is in the top 10% in terms of lowest mortality rates and hit the President's 70% vaccine uptake target in July 2021. These successes are in no small part due to the leadership of Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird who talks with Josh Sharfstein about difficult decisions and her hope that stories of the community's courage, bravery, and generosity will be legacies of COVID-19.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 5 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former health commissioner here in Baltimore, Maryland. |
| 0:21.7 | Our goal with this podcast is to bring scientific evidence and experience to shed light on critical |
| 0:27.5 | health issues. If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health |
| 0:33.0 | question at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:41.7 | Today we head to Lincoln, Nebraska, to speak to Lincoln's mayor, Lerian Gailor Baird. |
| 0:48.0 | We talk about what it has been like to lead her city through the immense challenge of the |
| 0:52.7 | COVID pandemic. It's a great conversation. |
| 0:55.6 | Let's listen. |
| 0:57.6 | Mayor Lerian Gaylor-Baird, thank you so much for joining me on public health on call. |
| 1:04.0 | How are you doing today? |
| 1:05.0 | I'm doing well, and it is a real honor and privilege to be on your podcast. |
| 1:09.0 | Thank you so much, Josh. So I want to start by giving |
| 1:13.6 | you the opportunity to introduce yourself to our listeners. Tell us about Lincoln, Nebraska. |
| 1:19.6 | Lincoln, Nebraska is the capital city and home of our flagship university. It is a wonderful |
| 1:25.9 | city to raise a family, and we think it's the quality of life |
| 1:29.4 | capital of the country. We're known for our Huskers, our football, and our volleyball team just played |
| 1:35.7 | in the national championship. And we have great public schools and wonderful trail system, |
| 1:41.4 | and we are a great place to live. And I'm really proud to serve as the 52nd mayor of this |
| 1:47.1 | community. And how many people live in Lincoln? We're just edging up on 300,000 people in our |
| 1:52.3 | community. And how long have you been mayor? I was sworn in in May of 2019, so just over two years. |
| 1:59.7 | And tell us a little bit about your background. |
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