520 - A COVID Snapshot with Dr. Tom Inglesby: Where We've Been, Where We Are, and Where We're Headed
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Tom Inglesby, director of the Center for Health Security returns to the podcast to talk with Josh Sharfstein about the current state of COVID. They discuss the pandemic situation in the US and around the world, and how they are managing their own lives at a moment when it seems like most people are ready to move on.
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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. |
| 0:25.4 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jh.h.org |
| 0:29.6 | That's public health question at jh.hu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:40.4 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer, Public Health on Call. |
| 0:45.6 | Today, Dr. Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, |
| 0:50.8 | joins Dr. Josh Sharfstein to talk about, wait for it, COVID. |
| 0:56.3 | They discuss everything from the situation in the U.S. and the world this fall to how they themselves are managing their own lives. Let's listen. Tom Ingleby, it's good to see you and ask you |
| 1:03.9 | about the state of COVID here in September 2022. Great, Josh. It's good to be back with you. |
| 1:13.2 | So where would you start? How would you explain to, let's just say, a Martian landing on planet Earth where things stand now? |
| 1:20.9 | Yeah, well, I think there is a lot of good news in the directions that we're heading. We're seeing within the prism of the |
| 1:29.7 | United States in general. We're seeing things move in good directions. Overall case numbers are |
| 1:36.6 | trending downward. Hospitalizations are trending downward. Deaths are beginning to come down |
| 1:42.3 | after being stubbornly far too high for far too long |
| 1:48.3 | and if you look across the country all the numbers |
| 1:53.7 | across the different regions of the country |
| 1:55.8 | are all moving downwards some faster than others |
| 2:00.4 | there are some there are some dark spots though are all moving downwards, some faster than others. |
| 2:07.3 | There are some dark spots, though, in the overall story and some important warnings that we ought to kind of continue to keep in front of mind. |
| 2:11.1 | There are a couple of states that still have rising case numbers. |
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