Informed & Inspired: SmartHER on COVID with Pulmonary and Critical Care Dr. Jamie Rutland
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Jenna Lee
5 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Dr. Rutland shares his unique experience as a pulmonologist who also specializes in autoimmune disease. This wide-ranging conversation covers the basics of the new coronavirus, bringing us rare insight into a body battling COVID-19 and what we should know a year after the first headlines, answering new questions about double-masking, vaccines and variants.
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| 0:00.0 | Here's what a lot of people don't understand about disease in general. |
| 0:03.6 | A lot of people look at disease and they're like, oh my God, it's this bacteria, it's this virus, |
| 0:10.3 | it's this fungus that causes a severe disease. |
| 0:13.2 | That's not the case. |
| 0:14.7 | It's actually the immune system that causes disease. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello from the Heartland. My name is Jenna and this is smarter news, news when it |
| 0:25.6 | matters and why it matters. Our Smarter series features unique people who help us think and live |
| 0:32.2 | smarter. So Dr. Rutland, do you remember where you were when you first heard about the new |
| 0:42.8 | coronavirus? |
| 0:44.0 | When I first heard about the new coronavirus, I was at home and I was in my backyard right behind me here and I was like sitting on the steps |
| 0:59.5 | and I started to read about it. And when I first heard about it, just because it's a, you know, |
| 1:05.6 | it's a long thing. It's a lung issue. I started to read up on it a little bit. And I first, I'm not going to lie. |
| 1:12.3 | Like, I was like, oh, it's no big deal. There's only four cases in the United States. It'll be |
| 1:18.0 | nothing. And one of the first YouTube's I ever did on it, I kind of sound like that. Like, I knew |
| 1:23.1 | not to be too laxadaisical about it, like not care about it. But I was like, |
| 1:32.1 | ah, don't worry about it. Influence is much worse. We're going to see a lot more of that. |
| 1:37.9 | And, you know, who knew? So what when you, how quickly did you go from that first reaction of saying, okay, let's gather a little bit more information, put some puzzle pieces together to, to then realizing, wait, this is actually something different. |
| 1:53.5 | About two weeks, I think, took about two weeks. Because I was reading all about it because I'm kind of a geek. And so like I was reading about the coronaviruses and I was reading about what cells that they bound to and how they bound. And then, |
| 2:07.9 | like, I remember that second week we had something like 117 cases in New York. And then it just, |
| 2:14.3 | like, boom, exploded. And I was like, whoa. |
| 2:19.1 | And then I started to read more and more about it. |
| 2:22.1 | And all the studies were from China, right, from Wuhan because they had already seen it. |
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