819: An Expert's View on Covid-19, Masks, and Vaccines
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🗓️ 14 September 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
John is back for the 3rd time to give us an update on where we're at with all things Covid-19. Wearing masks, the future vaccine, what should churches do, where will this whole thing end up?
John is a Senior Biosafety Officer for The University of Chicago – Howard T. Ricketts Laboratory, a Regional Biocontainment Laboratory, as well as a Registered Biosafety Professional with ABSA International (American Biological Safety Association). John was a lead trainer with the Duke Infectious Disease Response Training (DIDRT) Program, funded through an NIEHS-NIH Grant, that was designed to prepare workers at risk of infectious disease exposure. Additionally, he is a certified HAZWOPER/HAZMAT Trainer.
John has over 15 years’ experience working in high containment laboratories (BSL3) with high consequence pathogens (i.e. anthrax, plague, highly pathogenic avian influenza, Brucella abortus), with an effective history of training lab workers, clinical care workers, first responders, first receivers and custodial workers to safely work with and control high consequence pathogens such as MERS, SARS and Ebola.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw I want to let you know that I am going to go back to |
| 0:06.0 | podcasting once a week I did the two twice a week thing for the summer because of mmm COVID and |
| 0:20.0 | societal upheaval and people are at home and I and to be honest I just had some extra time over the summer and I had some amazing conversations with people and I couldn't I just couldn't wait to get them out |
| 0:25.2 | if I kind of trickled them out over you know one week at a time or whatever so |
| 0:30.9 | but we've gone back to one week because I don't I just can't sustain that pace so one we one podcast a week every Monday |
| 0:37.4 | In this episode we have John C. Bivona back for the third time |
| 0:41.1 | John as you will hear he's been on twice already. He is an expert in |
| 0:47.0 | infectious diseases and I just have kind of made it a habit every couple months to |
| 0:50.4 | check in with John to get an update on where are we at in the |
| 0:55.0 | science what is actually going on so we talk about masks all quite a bit |
| 0:58.8 | because that seems to be something that just keeps kind of flaring up in the media in society. |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, anyway, so we get the truth about masks and see, you know, what kind of recent studies have been done to either show that masks are helpful, unhelpful, or, you know, are they a life |
| 1:18.9 | saver, are they irrelevant, and on and on. |
| 1:21.7 | So we talk about masks masks we also talk about the vaccine |
| 1:25.8 | where are we at with the vaccine what's that going to look like and then we just |
| 1:30.1 | talk about how COVID is affecting society as a whole. This was pre-recorded |
| 1:34.8 | about a month ago so it is a little hopefully it's not dated hopefully John's |
| 1:40.4 | still alive hopefully he's hasn't renounced everything he talked about this episode. Hopefully John C. Babin. Bovona. |
| 2:11.0 | John C. Bovona. John is a third time guest on theology and |
| 2:14.8 | morale that puts you in a really elite class. A lot of you guys |
| 2:19.8 | know who John is if you've been listening to this podcast at least the last few months. |
| 2:24.3 | He's been on a couple times in the last few months. |
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