459 - Advances in Treating Hospitalized COVID Patients
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In-patient treatment for severe COVID has come a long way since 2020 thanks, in part, to the rare opportunity of real-time data collection from so many people sick with the same disease at the same time. Dr. Brian Garibaldi, director of the Johns Hopkins Biocontainment Unit, returns to the podcast to talk with Stephanie Desmon about treating severely ill COVID patients, advances in therapeutics like antivirals and anti-inflammatory treatments, and why vaccines remain "the most astounding achievements."
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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 jhhut.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:42.9 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call. Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to |
| 0:48.0 | Dr. Brian Garibaldi, a pulmonologist at Johns Hopkins, about how treatment for COVID patients in the ICU has evolved |
| 0:55.8 | from two years ago. They discuss how the pandemic has offered the unique opportunity to study a |
| 1:01.1 | disease in real time, what doctors have learned about treating COVID, and how those lessons |
| 1:06.1 | will help going forward. Let's listen. Brian Garibaldi, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:11.6 | That's a pleasure to be back. |
| 1:13.6 | So you and I last spoke in April 2020 |
| 1:16.6 | at the beginning of the pandemic, |
| 1:18.6 | and I asked you about what COVID looked like in the hospital, |
| 1:23.6 | and you spoke of the urgency of trying to figure out |
| 1:26.6 | how to treat people with this new disease. |
| 1:29.9 | And I'm curious what sort of roller coaster we have seen and what we have learned. |
| 1:36.5 | Wow, I can't believe it's been over two years since we last spoke. |
| 1:40.2 | It is amazing to think about what we've learned over the last two years with this new disease. |
| 1:45.5 | And, you know, I say that both from a pharmacologic perspective, you know, the medicines that we now have to both treat, but also to prevent disease, but also the way that we're able to approach caring for these patients in real time. |
| 1:58.7 | And even, you know, at the level of research, what we've been able to accomplish in terms of learning |
| 2:03.5 | from the patient data that we've collected to try to understand the effectiveness of different |
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