Instagramming the Pandemic

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Infectious disease researcher Laurel Bristow has made a name for herself disseminating helpful, pandemic-related information on Instagram, and that name is @KingGutterBaby. She talks to CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta about her rise to fame, the pressures that come with it, and what her username means. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So your Instagram handle is at I mean I'm sure everyone's actually this King
0:07.6	gutter baby King gutter baby in March of last year Laurel Bristos Instagram
0:14.7	account with the unusual handle at King gutter baby was private just family and
0:21.2	friends she had fewer than a thousand followers then coronavirus struck and
0:25.6	Bristos career and infectious diseases made her more informed than most so she
0:31.6	started sharing some knowledge and some tips on her private Instagram her
0:35.6	followers found it so useful they asked if she would make her account public so
0:40.4	they could send her post to others and today Bristos has nearly 350,000
0:48.2	followers today we are talking about escapism now I don't mean looking at
0:53.1	talk for six hours instead of being left alone with your thoughts I'm talking
0:56.7	about viral variations escaping our immune response she answers their
1:01.4	questions about therapeutics risk assessment masks and everything in between all
1:06.8	of it while holding down her day job as a clinical research coordinator at
1:11.0	emery's vaccine and treatment evaluation unit today she's gonna join me to
1:16.0	talk about her rise to Instagram fame the pressures that come with that and
1:20.8	the reason she didn't change her username I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta seen
1:26.6	ends chief medical correspondent and this is coronavirus fact versus fiction
1:37.7	tell me a little bit about yourself and your work pre-COVID pre-pandemic yeah so
1:43.8	I have a master's of science and the control of infectious disease and I've
1:47.3	been started working in HIV in San Francisco and then I moved out here to
1:53.2	Atlanta to work for the hope clinic at emery which is a vaccine and treatment
1:56.7	evaluation unit and so when I was out here I was hired because they wanted to
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