479 - Another COVID Summer—What's Changed and What Hasn't
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Kicking off our third pandemic summer looks a lot different than the last two….or does it? With more than five times as many COVID cases as this time last year, have we given up on trying to protect ourselves? What should we be focusing on, and does this mean we're truly learning to live with COVID? Experts Keri Althoff and Elizabeth Stuart return to the podcast to talk with Stephanie Desmon about where we are this pandemic summer, what's changed, what hasn't, and where we might be headed.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, |
| 0:17.0 | and a former health commissioner here in Baltimore. |
| 0:19.7 | Our goal is to bring evidence and experience to illuminate critical public health issues. |
| 0:24.6 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to Public Health Question at jh.h. |
| 0:29.6 | That's Public Health Question at jhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:36.6 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of Public Health on Call. |
| 0:40.7 | Today, Stephanie Desmond welcomes back Carrie Altof and Elizabeth Stewart of the Johns Hopkins |
| 0:45.4 | Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:47.3 | They talk about how to approach our third COVID summer and what to do as we see rampant |
| 0:52.5 | increases in cases and continue disruptions in our |
| 0:55.6 | communities. Let's listen. Carrie Altaff and Elizabeth Stewart, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:02.8 | Thanks for having us, Stephanie. Great to be here. So let me start with you, Carrie. Here we are. |
| 1:08.9 | It's not long after Memorial Day. and we had, I read somewhere, |
| 1:14.0 | five times more cases this Memorial Day than last. And I guess I'm wondering, have people |
| 1:19.7 | given up on protecting themselves from COVID? Well, I think we have to be a little more nuanced |
| 1:24.8 | in the question. What are we trying to protect ourselves from? |
| 1:28.3 | So are we trying to protect ourselves from infection? I think the answer that most people are resigned to now is no. |
| 1:35.8 | We're not actually trying to prevent that, just the way we typically don't prevent an infection with a SARS virus that causes a common cold. |
| 1:44.2 | But one thing that we are a little bit more concerned about is looking at our ability to |
| 1:52.1 | protect ourselves against hospitalizations and death. |
| 1:54.7 | And, you know, we know how to do that. |
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