Josh Sharfstein on Coronavirus

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🗓️ 14 March 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Josh Sharfstein is the vice dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He also served as the secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. He was the principal deputy commissioner and at some point, the acting commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and he was the Commissioner of Health for the city of Baltimore. He is remarkably well qualified to talk about coronavirus crisis response at the federal, state, and local levels. He's even written a book about managing public health crises, and he's hosting a daily podcast of his own on the coronavirus crisis. He joined Benjamin Wittes in the virtual Jungle Studio to talk about the role of coercion in managing these crises, how the U.S. government has performed (and not performed), and what we should be doing differently to get the corona crisis under control.

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0:25.6	no bull and the aftermath.
0:34.1	This is a global challenge.
0:36.4	This is humankind versus virus.
0:39.9	And this isn't one country versus another.
0:43.5	And the global cooperation is critical for so many of these issues to stand up clinical
0:48.6	trials, to work with regulators and other countries to identify strategies that work,
0:55.0	and strategies that don't work.
0:56.0	I mean, this should be a period of the world coming together, not coming apart.
1:00.4	We should be helping other places.
1:02.7	We should be getting help where we can from other places.
1:08.5	I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast March 14th, 2020.
1:15.8	Josh Arthstein is the vice dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
1:22.6	He also served as the secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
1:28.8	He was the principal deputy commissioner and at some point the acting commissioner of
1:34.0	the US Food and Drug Administration and he was the commissioner of health for the city
1:39.0	of Baltimore.
1:41.0	He is remarkably well qualified to talk about coronavirus crisis response at the federal,
1:49.8	state and local levels.
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