446 - California's New COVID-19 Approach
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
California has had a reputation as one of the more vigorous in terms of COVID-19 mitigation tactics and now, two years later, the state is changing tack. Dr. Mark Ghaly, California's Secretary of Health and Human Services, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the state's new and more nimble S.M.A.R.T.E.R. approach which focuses on key metrics and broad surveillance to know what responses are needed where. They also talk about what it's been like to lead in this role during the pandemic.
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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. |
| 0:42.2 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call, and today we head to California. |
| 0:47.6 | Dr. Mark Galley, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, talks to Dr. Josh Sarfstein about the state's new COVID strategy. Let's listen. |
| 0:56.5 | Dr. Mark Galley, thank you so much for joining me on public health on call. How are you doing today? |
| 1:02.4 | I'm great, Josh. It's great to be with you. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:06.7 | So I read recently that California has a new plan for COVID-19, a plan to consider this disease a manageable risk, not an emergency. |
| 1:18.4 | Can you tell me a little bit more about what you have in mind? |
| 1:23.5 | Yeah, Josh, you know, two years in, we've learned so much about COVID, about our capability to respond, about the difficulties we have as communities and states managing what has been just a really difficult emergency. |
| 1:43.7 | And for California, we call the plan. California smarter. just a really difficult emergency. |
| 1:45.0 | And for California, we call the plan. |
| 1:47.0 | California smarter is an acronym. |
| 1:49.0 | I'll spend a few minutes on that. |
| 1:51.0 | But really, it's a recognition that California's best strategy moving forward is to be really prepared |
| 2:00.0 | for whatever this virus throws our way and to |
| 2:05.1 | really communicate clearly to our communities that we will be prepared and we're not moving |
| 2:12.9 | on but we're moving forward. |
| 2:14.5 | So California has a refutation for being one of the states that has responded most aggressively |
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