BONUS: Inside a COVID-19 Field Hospital
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The Baltimore Convention Field Hospital was established in the spring of 2020 by the state of Maryland, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Maryland to fight COVID. A few weeks ago, Dr. Josh Sharfstein was invited inside the 100,000 square foot field hospital's command center to meet with Director Dr. Jim Ficke and Deputy Director Dr. Chuck Callahan. He also speaks with Dr. Mindy Kantsiper, Dr. Sophia Purekal, Dr. Zishan Siddiqui, John Fickel, and Laura Wortman. They talk about what the last year has been like, how lessons from the military-inspired design and logistics, and how this field hospital now responds to COVID on four fronts: testing, patient care, monoclonal antibody treatment center, and vaccinations.
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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. |
| 0:47.0 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of Public Health on Call, and today is a special |
| 0:52.0 | bonus episode. We're going inside the Baltimore Convention Center |
| 0:56.3 | Field Hospital, established last year by the state of Maryland, Johns Hopkins, and the University of |
| 1:01.9 | Maryland to fight COVID. A few weeks ago, Dr. Josh Sharfstein grabbed a recorder and met the director, |
| 1:08.1 | Dr. Jim Fickey, and the deputy director, Dr. Chuck Callahan. |
| 1:12.6 | They took him inside the command center, where he just started talking to the people there about what the last year has been like. |
| 1:19.1 | We'll hear from Dr. Mindy Kantzipper, Dr. Sophia Pirokel, Dr. Zishan Siddiqui, John Fickle, and Laura Mortman. |
| 1:28.4 | Let's listen. Hello, Dr. Fishan Siddiqui, John Fickle, and Laura Mortman. Let's listen. |
| 1:33.0 | Hello, Dr. Fickey. Hello, Dr. Callahan. |
| 1:34.8 | Good morning, Dr. Sharfstein. |
| 1:36.8 | And good morning. Yeah, thanks for joining us today. |
| 1:41.8 | Here we are on the street here in Pratt Street and Baltimore. Why don't we head into the convention center? |
| 1:51.9 | Now, usually I'm here for, like like a pediatrics convention or maybe the Orioles fan day or something like that, |
| 1:56.0 | but this whole part of the convention center has been converted to a field hospital. |
| 2:19.3 | That's correct. In the middle of March 2020, the governor is part of his plan to respond to the coronavirus pandemic called out people from Baltimore, from the city, from the state, from University of Maryland and from Hopkins to partner in a public-private partnership to create a Baltimore Convention Center Field Hospital. That is where we are right now in the middle of Baltimore City. |
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