Public Health and the Pandemic Two Months In with Dr. Josh Sharfstein

Factually! with Adam Conover

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4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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We're two months in to the pandemic, and some states are starting to reopen. Are we anywhere close to where we need to be to do so safely? Dr. Josh Sharfstein, current Vice Dean for Public Health Practice at Johns Hopkins and former principal deputy commissioner of the FDA, joins Adam to discuss the state of our fight against the pandemic, the importance of public health to our communities, and reinventing the world we used to know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This is a HeadGum Podcast. I don't know what to think
0:13.0	I don't know what to say
0:16.0	you're the got to right
0:19.0	yeah that's okay
0:21.0	I don't know anything.
0:28.0	Hello, welcome to factually, I'm Adam Conover and let's talk pandemic right?
0:34.0	Let's do it because we are still in it and I'm going to be brutally honest with you
0:40.0	okay? Things are not quote going back to normal anytime soon.
0:44.8	You know all those tweets, you see, like, when this is all over,
0:48.2	I'm gonna get all my friends together and we're all get in a big pool and drink white claws
0:52.1	and touch each other's faces. I can't wait for that day to come.
0:55.2	Well, that day is not coming.
0:58.2	COVID-19 is an event as seismic in our lives as September 11th or Pearl Harbor.
1:03.4	Okay, there is no winding the clock back and just going back to the way things were before.
1:08.6	We live in this world now and this world is going to be different from the old one forever.
1:15.2	And I know that's bleak. I know that's a bleak thing to say to you, but I do want to stress
1:20.5	that that doesn't mean that things are going to be like this forever, right?
1:24.7	Things are going to change and hopefully they're going to change for the better.
1:29.6	And I have to be honest, it seems like we've started to move into a new phase of the pandemic right things
1:35.3	that start to change kind of work the beginning of the pandemic is over that we finished
1:40.8	the first inning right now we're in the second inning,
1:44.5	and we're starting to realize that this baseball game
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