485 - The NBA and COVID-19
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In 2020, scientists working on injury analytics expanded to COVID-19 epidemiology to help create and monitor the NBA bubble. Dr. Christina Mack, an epidemiologist with IQVIA Real World Solutions, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about how the team continues to monitor the health and safety of players and staff, and some of the findings with real-world implications such as how long people can shed COVID-19 virus, if people with asymptomatic infections are less likely to transmit COVID, and whether boosters really work.
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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, |
| 0:16.9 | and a former health commissioner here in Baltimore. |
| 0:19.7 | Our goal is to bring evidence and experience |
| 0:22.1 | to illuminate critical public health issues. If you have questions or ideas for us, please |
| 0:27.5 | send an email to public health question at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jhut.edu for future |
| 0:35.4 | podcast episodes. Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call, and today it is time to talk some hoops. |
| 0:43.1 | That's right. Our topic is the National Basketball Association and COVID-19. |
| 0:48.0 | Dr. Sharfstein speaks with Dr. Christina Mack, an epidemiologist with IQVIA Real World Solutions, |
| 0:55.5 | who's been working to keep the NBA safe since the start of the pandemic. Let's listen. Dr. Mack, thank you so much for |
| 1:01.4 | joining me in public health on call. And you've got a pretty interesting job doing epidemiology |
| 1:06.1 | with the National Basketball Association. I do. It's been an honor and really glad to be here. |
| 1:11.8 | So how did you get involved with the NBA? |
| 1:14.7 | So my team at Ikevia is a team of epidemiologists and data scientists. |
| 1:19.0 | And we've actually been working with the NBA for about seven or eight years on their |
| 1:23.7 | injury analytics and surveillance work. |
| 1:26.5 | And so as we, as our season was disrupted by the pandemic in 2020, |
| 1:32.3 | we expanded the work that we've done with them |
| 1:34.8 | to help them create and operationalize the bubble |
| 1:38.4 | and have continued to work with them on COVID-19 ever since. |
| 1:41.3 | Now, we did a podcast on the bubble a while ago. |
| 1:45.0 | Could you remind our listeners what was the bubble? |
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