BONUS - The Latest from Louisiana: A COVID-19 Delta Surge + Hurricane Ida
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
How does a health department cope with a pandemic surge that coincides with one of the largest hurricanes to make landfall in 150 years? State health commissioner Dr. Joseph Kanter talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the challenges of dual emergencies, how the pandemic and storm responses impacted one another, and how the health department is coping nearly 19 months into the pandemic.
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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 jhh.edu. |
| 0:40.4 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:46.3 | Today, we head to Louisiana. I catch up with the state health commissioner, Dr. Joseph |
| 0:52.0 | Cantor, about experiencing a pandemic surge and a hurricane |
| 0:57.1 | at the same time. |
| 0:58.9 | Let's listen. |
| 1:00.1 | Dr. A Joke Cantor, you've had quite a month, |
| 1:04.3 | month and a half in Louisiana. |
| 1:06.3 | We have. |
| 1:06.8 | It does feel like we've turned a corner, |
| 1:08.6 | and that's thankful, but still have a couple months of hurricane season left. |
| 1:12.6 | So you never fully get out of the woods. |
| 1:14.9 | But we have. |
| 1:15.4 | We are coming down from our Delta surge, which had proven to be by far the most damaging and challenging surge that we have had to date. |
| 1:26.1 | It's our fourth surge in this pandemic. And right |
| 1:28.7 | in the middle of that, we were struck with Hurricane Ida, which is tied as the strongest storm by |
| 1:34.6 | wind speed to hit Louisiana in the past 150 years and cause a lot of disruption. So we feel like |
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