503 - What's Happening With COVID Globally—Variants, Second-Generation Vaccines, and a Worrying Flu Season Down South
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Vaccine experts Drs. Anna Durbin and Bill Moss return to the podcast to talk with Lindsay Smith Rogers about the global state of COVID-19. They discuss vaccine coverage around the world, second-generation or bivalent vaccines, a new variant of concern, and what a worrying flu season in the southern hemisphere could mean for us this winter.
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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, |
| 0:17.1 | and a former health commissioner here in Baltimore. |
| 0:19.7 | Our goal is to bring evidence and experience |
| 0:22.2 | 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 jhhu.edu for |
| 0:35.1 | future podcast episodes. Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith Rogers, producer of public health on call. |
| 0:41.4 | Today, I talk with vaccine experts Anna Durbin and Bill Moss about the global state of COVID-19 in terms of vaccine coverage, second generation vaccines coming this fall, a new variant of concern, and what a worrying flu season in the |
| 0:55.8 | southern hemisphere could mean for us this winter. Let's listen. Bill Moss and Anna Durbin, thank you so |
| 1:02.9 | much for joining us again on public health on call. We're here today to talk about the global state |
| 1:08.4 | of COVID. What is happening? So, Anna, let's start with you. What's going on |
| 1:12.8 | with COVID worldwide? Hi, Lindsay, and thanks for having us today. Well, I think what we're seeing |
| 1:18.3 | globally is continued cases of El Macron, although I think there is some encouraging news or numbers |
| 1:24.6 | lately. We're seeing sort of flattening of new cases. I will say that the cases |
| 1:28.9 | that are being reported are likely grossly undercounted due to home testing and such. But the good |
| 1:34.9 | news is that we haven't seen the huge spike in hospitalizations that we saw earlier in January |
| 1:40.7 | with the first Omicron surge. And deaths are fairly steady as well. So it does look |
| 1:46.7 | as though even though we're seeing continued numbers of cases, we're not seeing hospitals overrun, |
| 1:52.4 | and we're not seeing increases in death. And I will say that's probably most likely due to the fact |
| 1:57.7 | that most of the population has some immunity to COVID, either through vaccination |
| 2:02.3 | or infection. But I do think we're going to continue to see cases, unfortunately, of COVID. |
| 2:07.8 | It's not going away anytime soon. I think it is here to stay. So we just have to continue to be |
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