Bonus - Microchipping, Conspiracy Theories, Ivermectin, and More: Dr. Josh Sharfstein Answers Viewer Questions Live on C-SPAN

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Medicine, News, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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In April, Dr. Josh Sharfstein appeared on the Washington Journal segment of C-SPAN to talk about the podcast and answer questions from callers live on TV. Many of the questions stemmed from misinformation that's proliferated online, but all COVID questions deserve answers. In this bonus episode, we share some of those questions and Dr. Sharfstein's responses—live and unscripted.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
0:12.0	I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement,
0:17.1	and a former health commissioner here in Baltimore.
0:19.7	Our goal is to bring evidence and experience
0:22.4	to illuminate critical public health issues.
0:25.5	If you have questions or ideas for us,
0:27.4	please send an email to public health question at jh.h.edu.
0:31.6	That's public health question at jh.u.edu.
0:35.0	For future podcast episodes. Hi, listeners. This is Lindsay Smith Rogers, producer of the podcast. Have you ever been
0:42.3	asked a question about COVID that has no basis in reality? On April 2nd, Josh Sharfstein appeared
0:48.8	on the Washington Journal segment of C-SPAN to talk about the podcast and answer questions from
0:53.4	callers live on TV.
0:55.3	These questions were not vetted in advance, and many stem from misinformation that's
0:59.8	proliferated online. Every question deserves an answer, and so we thought you might like to hear
1:05.1	how Dr. Scharstein responded, live and unscripted. Today, we're replaying parts of the C-SPAN broadcast
1:11.4	as part of a bonus episode.
1:13.6	Let's listen.
1:15.3	I'm going to have questions.
1:17.1	Why the hell do we need the vaccine?
1:19.0	The first people through sorcery.
1:21.5	Which crap.
1:22.0	This is all written in the Bible.
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