BONUS - A Doctor's Perspective from Wuhan
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Bin Cao, vice president and director of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine at the China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing, has worked on the front lines of patient care in Wuhan for the past few months. By closely monitoring the disease, he and his team are beginning to unlock some of its secrets. Cao talks to Dr. Josh Sharfstein about how the situation has changed in Wuhan, what we can learn about safeguarding providers, the primary risk factors for death, and ongoing research.
Learn more: https://www.jhsph.edu/covid-19/articles/public-health-on-call-bin-cao-a-brand-new-virus.html
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a new podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:12.7 | Our focus is the novel coronavirus. |
| 0:15.2 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, a faculty member at Johns Hopkins, and also a former secretary of Maryland's health department. |
| 0:21.6 | Our goal with this podcast is to bring evidence and experts to help you understand today's |
| 0:26.9 | news about the novel coronavirus and what it means for tomorrow. |
| 0:30.5 | If you have questions, you can email them to public health question at jhh.edu. |
| 0:36.3 | That's public health question at jh.h. That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:42.3 | Today, I'm speaking with Dr. Bin Chow, Vice President and Director of Respiratory and Critical |
| 0:48.3 | Care Medicine at the China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing. |
| 0:52.3 | Dr. Chow has been working in Wuhan, China, |
| 0:55.7 | responding to COVID-19 for the past two months. |
| 0:59.1 | In this interview, he speaks about how the situation |
| 1:01.7 | has changed in Wuhan over this last two months, |
| 1:05.3 | about protecting health care workers from infection, |
| 1:08.2 | about the risk factors for death from COVID-19 in Wuhan, and about ongoing |
| 1:12.9 | research to identify treatments. Let's listen. Dr. Chow, thank you very much for joining me today |
| 1:19.5 | from Wuhan, China. How are you doing today? Fine. Great. So let me just make sure I understand. You |
| 1:27.4 | usually work in Beijing. |
| 1:29.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.4 | But for the last two months, you have been in Wuhan, |
| 1:33.0 | both taking care of patients and doing research. |
| 1:36.5 | Is that correct? |
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