BONUS - An Update on COVID-19 Immunity with Arturo Casadevall
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Arturo Casadevall—head of the convalescent plasma research project at Johns Hopkins—talks through the WHO's recent statement that there's no evidence of COVID-19 infection leading to short- or long-term immunity. Casadevall and Dr. Josh Sharfstein also discuss how COVID-19 is not like HIV or pneumonia, and what we currently know about new strains of the novel coronavirus.
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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.u.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:42.4 | Today, I'm talking to Dr. Arturo Casa de Val, the chair of the Department of |
| 0:47.1 | Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public |
| 0:51.8 | Health. |
| 0:52.6 | We first spoke to Dr. Casa de Val about the idea of using |
| 0:55.9 | antibodies from people who have recovered from COVID-19 as therapy for others. Those studies |
| 1:02.2 | are now in process with the results still pending. Today I'm speaking with Dr. Casa de Val about |
| 1:08.1 | whether people who have been sick with COVID-19 will develop immunity. |
| 1:12.7 | Let's listen. |
| 1:14.4 | Dr. Casadabal, thank you so much for taking time from your work to join me for a minute. |
| 1:19.4 | Dr. Schiavary's news, thank you for having me. |
| 1:21.8 | So I want to follow up on this discussion that's been raging about whether or not there is immunity that develops |
| 1:30.8 | to COVID-19. |
| 1:32.7 | And recently, the World Health Organization made a statement. |
| 1:36.5 | Maybe, could you explain what the World Health Organization said? |
| 1:40.1 | So they put out a statement yesterday, |
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