#99 - Peter Hotez, M.D., Ph.D.: Continuing the conversation on COVID-19

The Peter Attia Drive

Peter Attia, MD

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Fitness

4.7 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this episode, Dr. Peter Hotez M.D., Ph.D., Dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine Baylor College of Medicine, returns to continue the conversation on COVID-19. Dr. Hotez informs us on how we can gauge the number of infected people, behaviors to reduce the probability of becoming infected, and the inconsistency of hospitalizations among young adults between different countries. Dr. Hotez underscores the continued uncertainty in many virus-related developments, but ends with some points of optimism.

Disclaimer: This is information accurate as of March 19, 2020, when it was recorded.

We discuss:

- How to gauge true number of infected people [5:45]
- Reducing the probability of getting infected [22:45]
- Inconsistency by country in infected young people [27:15]
- Conferred immunity, seasonality, and repurposed therapeutics [30:30]
- Vaccine development [39:30]
- Practical behaviors to reduce risk of transmission [46:00]
- Mental Health resource and funding [51:00]
- Points of optimism [56:00]; and
- More.

Learn more: https://peterattiamd.com/

Show notes page for this episode: https://peterattiamd.com/peterhotez-2

Subscribe to receive exclusive subscriber-only content: https://peterattiamd.com/subscribe/

Sign up to receive Peter's email newsletter: https://peterattiamd.com/newsletter/

Connect with Peter on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to the Drive Podcast.
0:13.0	I'm your host, Peter Atia.
0:14.8	This podcast, my website, and my weekly newsletter, all focus on the goal of translating
0:18.7	the science of longevity into something accessible for everyone.
0:22.4	Our goal is to provide the best content in health and wellness, full stop, and we've assembled
0:27.0	a great team of analysts to make this happen.
0:29.4	If you enjoy this podcast, we've created a membership program that brings you far more
0:33.2	in depth content if you want to take your knowledge of this space to the next level.
0:37.3	At the end of this episode, I'll explain what those benefits are, or if you want to learn
0:41.0	more now, head over to peteratiamd.com forward slash subscribe.
0:46.3	Now without further delay, here's today's episode.
0:51.1	Welcome back to another COVID-19 special episode of the Drive Podcast.
0:55.1	And once again, joined by Dr. Peter Hotez, a renowned vaccine scientist, pediatrician,
0:59.9	and an expert on the current coronavirus outbreak.
1:02.5	We released an episode with Peter on March 14th, which received a lot of feedback.
1:08.7	People were very grateful for that, and wanted to have him back on with other questions.
1:14.2	It is difficult to immediately address questions that are posed in the aftermath of a podcast
1:19.0	that's five days old, because five days in this outbreak is an eternity.
1:23.6	So a lot of the stuff we talked about today is not actually stuff I thought I would
1:27.1	talk about with Peter at the time that we finished our last episode.
1:31.1	And again, that means it might not be germane a week from now.
1:34.5	But nevertheless, this was recorded March 19th in the late afternoon evening, and as such,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Peter Attia, MD, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Peter Attia, MD and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.