Johns Hopkins University’s Dr Amesh Adalja: “We failed miserably”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The Sunday Times tech correspondent brings on Dr Amesh Adalja, senior scholar at Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Health Security, to talk about what we’ve learned about coronavirus (2:55), why we should be wearing face shields (8:25), whether we should sanitise our groceries (11:05), why outdoors is better (12:25), the second wave (13:45), lockdowns (15:05), the differences from 1918 (18:25), how who is getting sick influences the response (23:00), why he’s confident a vaccine is coming (26:45), living with risk (29:25), the importance of leadership (33:00), and what we know about immunity (36:40).

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0:00.0	Yo, technology.
0:02.0	What is it all about?
0:04.0	I do think this is going to be the new normal and people have to realize that this is now going to be a risk every time they step out the door.
0:10.0	Nothing is going to be completely safe. It's just going to be what your risk tolerance is.
0:14.0	And I do think that you're going to see people take different approaches to this.
0:20.9	Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley.
0:24.3	I am your host, Danny Fawkinson, West Coast correspondent for the Sunday Times.
0:29.3	Thank you for tuning in.
0:31.7	And yeah, we have a special bonus episode for you this week.
0:36.0	About a week ago, I got on the phone with Dr. Amish Adulja.
0:40.2	He is an epidemiologist.
0:42.5	He has been right at the forefront of all things coronavirus.
0:46.1	He is a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security.
0:53.4	So if you have been watching the numbers around the world for coronavirus,
0:59.2	chances are you have been on Johns Hopkins Coronavirus website,
1:04.4	which has all the stats,
1:06.3	everything you would ever want to know about the coronavirus in one place.
1:09.1	It is kind of the go-to point of reference. I wanted to talk to Dr. Adalja. This was a week ago, mind you. So in that
1:18.1	week, obviously, a lot has happened. So we are now in the midst of a full-on, quite scary resurgence,
1:27.2	or kind of a second wave of the first wave here in the
1:31.1	United States and it's happening lots of different places lots of flare-ups elsewhere but here
1:35.6	it's really kind of going crazy so I just want to give you that context he and I spoke about a week
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