BONUS - Where We Are in the Pandemic: A Check-In with Epidemiologist Dr. David Dowdy

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

News, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

1 in 3 Americans believes the pandemic is over, but waves of illness and hospitalizations continue to cause signifiant disruption and death. Dr. David Dowdy returns to the podcast to talk with Lindsay Smith Rogers about how COVID-19 is impacting both vaccinated and unvaccinated people, why there were so many deaths of vaccinated people from omicron (hints: sheer numbers and outsize impacts on older and immunocompromised individuals), and a look at where we are now and what we can expect in the coming months.

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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
0:19.1	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 jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes.
0:42.1	Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call. We'll be off for Memorial Day
0:47.2	and return on June 1st with season 6. This summer, we'll continue to talk about living with COVID
0:53.2	and the shift from pandemic crisis to endemic virus.
0:56.8	We'll also continue to follow breaking news around new variants, the future of reproductive health and the Supreme Court, and humanitarian crises in Ukraine and around the world.
1:07.0	We'll look at other urgent public health issues, including racism, gun violence, mental health, climate change, and overdose.
1:14.6	And, of course, we'll continue to cover the need for investments in public health infrastructure and surveillance for future pandemic threats.
1:22.4	As we wind down season five, we have a few thank yous.
1:25.9	First, huge thanks to our interns, Crystal Allen,
1:29.3	Hannah Bennett, Maisie Conrad, and Caroline Wang, who bring fresh ideas and much-needed support
1:34.5	for the podcast. We'd also like to thank you, our listeners, for sharing your ideas and questions,
1:40.8	and for downloading this podcast more than seven million times. We appreciate all the
1:46.3	great ideas and questions that come from our listeners. So keep writing to us at public health
1:51.0	question at jhhu.edu. That's public health question at jhu.edu. And thank you for being part of this
1:59.5	podcast.
2:04.5	Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call.
2:10.3	And today in a bonus episode, I speak with epidemiologist Dr. David Dowdy about how COVID-19 is impacting vaccinated and unvaccinated people.
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