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Special Conversation: COVID-19 Update for 7/16/20 with Dr. Andy Elsberg

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4.9152 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this Special Conversation, Cody catches up with Dr. Andy Elsberg for an update on where Alaska is with COVID-19. The last time they talked, Alaska had been in quarantine for over a month. Since then, many businesses have re-opened and many non-essential employees are back at work, but social distancing and wearing masks is encouraged. Andy is an emergency room doctor in Anchorage, Alaska.

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0:00.0

The Andy, welcome back.

0:13.0

Thank you. This Andy, welcome back.

0:23.4

Thank you.

0:24.4

This will be the third time you've been on to talk about where Alaska is with COVID-19.

0:30.2

Yeah.

0:31.2

The last time we talked was back on April 27th and at that point Alaska had been

0:38.6

quarantining for over a month and the Anchorage municipality was beginning to open back up again.

0:44.0

So we were like moving into phase two then right?

0:47.0

I think something like that, yeah.

0:49.0

Something like that.

0:50.0

That was over two months ago now.

0:52.0

What has changed since then and do we know anything now that we didn't know then?

0:59.2

First of all, what's changed is that it's summer now?

1:06.0

And that the summer's been amazing like you and I were talking about. I think that's been probably a mental lifesaver for

1:17.7

everyone around here. You know, we've had sunny days and some rainy days that keep the trails and everything else in good shape and tons of people are getting outside.

1:25.0

I mean, it's been amazing to see all aspects of Anchorage, of the Anchorage community using the outdoors.

1:35.8

I feel like the hunker down pushed everyone

1:38.1

into the outdoor space and at first I felt like

1:41.9

amongst the normal trail user crew there were some complaints about that, but I just think it's just amazing to see all aspects of the Anchorage community get outdoors and be enjoying it. It's super cool and I hope

1:56.7

that that's something that just sticks with our community because it's healthy for all of us.

2:03.2

In terms of, so I'm an ER doc and I focus on treatment.

2:09.7

In terms of what we learned for treatment early on with COVID, especially as there were, you know,

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