BONUS - Debunking the "Herd Immunity" Strategy
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
This week, senior White House officials embraced the Great Barrington Declaration, a statement funded by a libertarian think tank that calls for an end to most COVID-19 response measures. In this two-part bonus episode, Dr. Josh Sharfstein talks with epidemiologists Dr. David Dowdy and Dr. Amber D'Souza about the harm this strategy would cause. Part two is an excerpt from Sharfstein's conversation with immunologist Dr. Gigi Gronvall, who crunches the numbers and looks at key players behind the declaration.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 2 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins |
| 0:11.6 | Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, |
| 0:18.8 | and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. |
| 0:21.9 | Our goal is to bring scientific evidence and experience to the public health news of the day |
| 0:27.3 | through informative interviews with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public health |
| 0:32.7 | officials, clinicians, and more. If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at |
| 0:39.8 | Public Health Question at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future |
| 0:47.2 | podcast episodes. In this special bonus episode, I speak with three experts about the Great |
| 0:53.5 | Barrington Declaration, |
| 0:55.0 | a statement funded by a libertarian think tank. The declaration calls for an end to COVID-19 |
| 1:01.0 | response measures for most people, including an end to social distancing and mask wearing. |
| 1:07.0 | Leading public health experts and organizations have called this statement dangerous and irresponsible. |
| 1:13.6 | In part one, I speak with infectious disease epidemiologists David Dowdy and Amber DeSouza of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 1:22.6 | In part two of this bonus episode, I ask a couple extra questions to Gigi Granval from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. |
| 1:31.5 | Let's listen. |
| 1:33.2 | Dr. Daudi, Dr. D'Souza, thank you for jumping on the podcast with me to talk about this great Barrington declaration, which is calling for pretty much an end to a lot of the public health |
| 1:47.5 | policies in place to control coronavirus infection in the United States. |
| 1:52.0 | Maybe I'll start with you, Dr. Doughty. |
| 1:53.4 | Could you explain what this is calling for? |
| 1:56.6 | Sure. |
| 1:57.6 | And thanks for having us on, Josh. |
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