Welcome to Getting Curious

I'm Jonathan Van Ness and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious

On today's episode I'm joined by Dr Adam Ratner, director of the Division of Pediatric

Infectious Diseases, and Hasn'tfeld Children's Hospital at NYU Langon Health, where we discuss

what germs are, how they make us sick, and whether I should be

cleaning with bleach wipes the entirety of my in public spaces I come in contact with.

I'm very excited you guys for this episode. We have Dr. Adam Ratner. He is the

director of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. It Hasn't Fell Children's

Hospital at NYU Langon Health.

Bienvenitos.

Thank you.

Great to be here.

Thanks so much for coming.

So you're a literal doctor, and you are a doctor of infectious diseases and this is why you're here because it

started off I was thinking that the title would be like this. Is it weird that or do you think that people think that I'm weird when I get on an airplane and immediately start wiping down my whole station with like those disinfecting like wet ones wipes? Because that started happening to me and I was like I wonder

if people are thinking that I'm you know a little intense with with that and then I was like

that title might be too long when I was talking to my friend Emily who is who helps us book the show and

so I was like I think anything an infectious disease doctor to talk about like how do

germs work?

Absolutely so first of all you are not the only one wiping down your seat like that, I am sure.

And the short answer about do you need to do that is probably not, although if it makes you feel better, it is okay to do that is probably not although if it makes you feel better it's it is okay to do well

because here's the thing okay obviously airplanes are not real life all the time

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