Bonus - The COVID-19 Pandemic's Transition Phase with Dr. Monica Gandhi: What Questions Do We Need to Ask and What Answers Do We Need to Find in 2022?
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Infectious disease specialist Dr. Monica Gandhi returns to the podcast to talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about what the COVID pandemic might look like on the other side of omicron peaks. They discuss how to rethink our safety approaches to move towards accepting COVID as endemic, managing other respiratory viruses like flu, and searching for consensus in the path forward. They also discuss an interesting theory about omicron's origins.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 5 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former health commissioner here in Baltimore, Maryland. |
| 0:21.7 | Our goal with this podcast is to bring scientific evidence and experience to shed light on critical |
| 0:27.5 | health issues. If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health |
| 0:33.0 | question at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jh.h.u.d.u for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:42.4 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call. Today, infectious disease |
| 0:47.0 | specialist Dr. Monica Gandhi returns to the podcast to talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about what the |
| 0:52.8 | pandemic will look like in 2022. |
| 0:55.4 | Let's listen. |
| 0:56.9 | Dr. Monica Gandhi, thank you so much for coming back to Public Health on call. |
| 1:00.8 | I remember vividly your episode where you talked about the benefits of masks |
| 1:04.9 | and your episode where you talked about the benefits of vaccines. |
| 1:08.6 | This is a difficult time for the country in the middle of this |
| 1:11.0 | amacron surge. What do you think is the key issue today? So, you know, a lot is happening |
| 1:18.6 | right now, like you said. We essentially are going through the highest number of cases |
| 1:23.6 | that we've ever had. And we're trying to ramp up testing. |
| 1:29.3 | On the other hand, in places that are highly vaccinated, like my own in California, |
| 1:34.3 | hospitalizations are staying manageable. |
| 1:37.3 | There are a lot of incidental hospitalizations because we have COVID in the nose and we're kind of different states, just like we were through the |
| 1:45.3 | Delta surge with different rates of vaccination, different styles of masking, different ways of |
| 1:50.2 | masking, different mask mandates. |
| 1:52.5 | And it's sort of a mess right now. |
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