438 - A Look Back At March 2020 With Dr. Josh Sharfstein
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In the very early days of the pandemic in the US, there was so much we didn't know about COVID and a lot of concern among experts about how the country could weather the health crisis. In this special episode, Lindsay Smith Rogers pulls quotes from "the file," a previously unaired podcast interview recorded with Dr. Josh Sharfstein in early March 2020, about his predictions and concerns. They discuss what he predicted correctly, for better or worse, what he got wrong, and what we still don't really know even two years later.
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| 1:02.0 | Welcome to Season 5 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 1:15.7 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, |
| 1:18.8 | and a former health commissioner here in Baltimore, Maryland. |
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| 1:38.0 | podcast episodes. Hi listeners, it's Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health On Call, and today we have a very special episode. I've pulled quotes from a podcast about the public health response to the pandemic that Dr. Josh Sharfstein recorded in early March 2020 that never aired. In this look back to the beginning of the pandemic, we're going to talk about what he |
| 2:01.3 | predicted correctly for better or worse, what he got wrong, and what we still don't really know. |
| 2:07.2 | Let's listen. |
| 2:10.1 | Josh Sharfstein, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 2:13.4 | Hi, Lindsay. How are you doing today? I'm good. So we are two years out from the launch of the podcast. Can you believe it? |
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