441 - Navigating "The Great Unmasking" With Keri Althoff and Elizabeth Stuart
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Epidemiologist Keri Althoff and mental health expert Elizabeth Stuart return to the podcast to talk us through yet another phase of the pandemic. They speak with Stephanie Desmon about where we are now and why there are reasons to be cautiously optimistic, how families can navigate mask-wearing, the CDC's new approach to monitoring risks, and why the COVID response is a dial, not an "on/off switch."
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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 |
| 0:19.1 | 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. |
| 0:42.0 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith Rogers, producer of public health on call, and today Stephanie |
| 0:46.0 | Desmond welcomes back Carrie Altoff and Elizabeth Stewart of the Johns Hopkins |
| 0:50.2 | Bloomberg School of Public Health. They discuss how to navigate life where masks are becoming |
| 0:54.9 | optional and COVID-19 cases are down, but one that isn't quite risk-free, especially for the |
| 1:00.6 | young and the sick. Let's listen. Carrie Eltoff and Liz Stewart, thanks so much for joining me again. |
| 1:06.7 | Thanks for having us. So here we are March 2022, and it feels like the world is reopening, |
| 1:13.8 | right? Masks are optional in schools, at the mall, in the movie theater. Cases are way down |
| 1:19.3 | from their recent peaks. Are we done with COVID? We are definitely in a good spot right now, |
| 1:25.2 | but we're unfortunately not done with COVID or maybe COVID |
| 1:28.8 | isn't done with us. I think many of us, as you just said, are starting to really see that the next |
| 1:34.9 | period of time, I don't know how long that will be, but we're in a good spot in general right now |
| 1:40.0 | in the United States. Cases are down. Many people are vaccinated, not as many as we might want. |
| 1:46.8 | And so I know even myself and many others are starting to do more than we have for the past |
| 1:52.4 | couple of years going out, etc. I think that the thing to remember and sort of where COVID |
| 1:58.0 | isn't necessarily done with us is that this might change. |
| 2:01.5 | And so we should enjoy the time we have now. |
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