Episode 12 - Jordi Borrell Pique - 27 Cases of Pneumonia

ECDC: On Air

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

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5 • 3 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The 31st of December 2019 began as normal for Jordi Borrell Pique, the Epidemic Intelligence Officer on duty for ECDC. Soon, media reports began to arrive of patients showing signs of a ‘pneumonia of unknown etiology’ linked to a wet market in Wuhan. For this episode, we sit down with Jordi to recount those early days of COVID-19 at ECDC and remember how quickly things changed. For more information about COVID-19 and ECDC, please visit us at ecdc.europa.eu or follow us on social media.

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0:00.0	ECDC on air.
0:05.8	The podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
0:09.3	Keeping up to date with European epidemiology.
0:14.0	Hello, welcome and thanks for tuning in to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control
0:18.2	audio series, ECDC on air.
0:21.8	I'm your host Lee,
0:26.7	recording from our headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. Through the past year and a half, you may have heard of ECDC being mentioned here and there, but you may be unfamiliar with what actually
0:30.6	goes on here in Stockholm when we're not talking about the COVID-19 pandemic. As an EU agency,
0:36.6	ECDC aims to strengthen Europe's defences against infectious diseases.
0:40.7	We cover a wide range of subjects, including surveillance, preparedness, epidemic intelligence,
0:45.8	and response measures. We provide scientific advice, give public health training, and raise awareness
0:51.1	through our disease programs. Put simply, we do quite a lot.
0:55.4	Earlier this year in our second episode titled Looking for Signals,
0:58.9	we spoke with Tom Armole about epidemic intelligence and how it works at ECDC.
1:04.3	Today, we're taking a look back at the 31st of December 2019
1:08.1	and how the EI officer on duty that day reacted to reports of patients
1:12.7	showing signs of a pneumonia of unknown etiology.
1:16.2	It is easy to forget what things were like two years ago.
1:19.2	In one sense, it doesn't seem all that long ago, but things were very different for everyone,
1:23.3	including us here at ECDC.
1:25.7	Jordi Borrell Piquet was on duty for that final week of 2019,
1:29.7	and with the second anniversary of COVID-19 soon upon us,
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