Bonus - Caring for Kids with COVID-19 in Florida
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Caring for Kids with COVID-19 in Florida. There are more children sick with COVID-19 in Florida today than ever before. Joseph Perno is an emergency department physician and the chief medical officer of Johns Hopkins All-Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg. He speaks to Dr. Josh Sharfstein about why the rising number of sick children has yet to change many minds about measures to combat the pandemic.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 4 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former Commissioner of Health in Baltimore City. |
| 0:20.0 | Our goal is to bring |
| 0:21.7 | scientific evidence and experience to current topics in public health through engaging interviews |
| 0:27.1 | with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. |
| 0:32.8 | If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question at jhhhu.edu. |
| 0:40.4 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:46.7 | Today, we head to Florida. I speak to Dr. Joseph Pernault, the chief medical officer and a pediatric |
| 0:54.0 | emergency medicine physician |
| 0:55.8 | at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg. |
| 1:01.6 | Let's listen. |
| 1:03.7 | Dr. Perna, thank you so much for joining us on the podcast. |
| 1:07.1 | What is the situation right now for children and COVID in the state of Florida? |
| 1:13.2 | Yeah, the situation is not good and unfortunately getting worse by the week. We were in a really |
| 1:20.3 | good position in June, thinking that we had gotten through the worst of the pandemic and we'd seen |
| 1:26.4 | a record low number of cases |
| 1:28.3 | in our pediatric patients, and then everything sort of exploded in July. |
| 1:32.8 | Each week since the beginning of July, we've seen more cases of COVID than we have at all |
| 1:38.5 | during the pandemic, and each week breaks a new record, and including into early August, |
| 1:42.9 | where we're still seeing the most number of |
| 1:44.7 | overall positives of COVID pediatric patients. |
| 1:48.3 | So what does that mean for a typical emergency room shift for you? |
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