BONUS - Evidence and Experience Matters
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2020
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Recently, the White House and HHS have undermined credibility of the top US experts on pandemic response. Dr. Josh Sharfstein reminds us that the battle we're fighting is not about Democrats vs. Republicans, nor about public health vs. the economy. The battle is humanity vs. the virus, and we need evidence and experience to prevail.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Josh Sharfstein with an extra message. Today, July 16th, 2020. For more than four months, a team at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has produced the Public Health on-call podcast, more than 100 episodes in total. We've been overwhelmed by the response, more than 1.5 million |
| 0:23.3 | downloads to date. We started this podcast to bring evidence and experience on a wide range of |
| 0:29.6 | critical questions about the COVID pandemic to a broad audience. We have interviewed |
| 0:34.7 | virologists such as Dr. Andrew Peckcosch, policy experts such as Dr. Tom |
| 0:38.8 | Inglesby, scholars of race and equity such as Dr. Lisa Cooper, clinicians such as Dr. Rick Redett, |
| 0:45.1 | and public health leaders such as Dr. Jornais Caldoun, as well as many, many others. We started this |
| 0:51.2 | podcast because we believe that evidence and experience matters. |
| 0:56.3 | This week, we've seen an extraordinary series of actions reflecting a different perspective, |
| 1:01.6 | the perspective that evidence and experience does not matter. |
| 1:05.2 | In just the last few days, the White House has distributed misleading information to undermine Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health and one of the most respected scientists in the world. |
| 1:21.7 | Also in the last few days, the leading spokesman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has repeatedly |
| 1:28.6 | disparaged the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, our nation's leading public health |
| 1:33.9 | agency. |
| 1:34.9 | In other words, the administration is now publicly questioning the credibility of the top |
| 1:40.8 | U.S. experts on pandemic response. |
| 1:43.8 | The very people with the skills and knowledge |
| 1:46.4 | to provide life-saving direction to the nation and to develop treatments and vaccines for us all. |
| 1:53.2 | In 1947, Albert Camus wrote this in his book The Plague, about a bacteria that causes |
| 1:59.2 | bubonic fever. What's natural is the |
| 2:02.3 | microbe. All the rest is a product of the human will of a vigilance that must never falter. |
| 2:09.8 | Nearly 75 years later, we find ourselves in a battle of life and death. It is not a battle |
| 2:15.0 | of Democrats versus Republicans. It is not a battle of public health |
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