I heard about the Public Health On Call podcast while listening to the March 14, 2020 Lawfare podcast a couple of days ago. That one is heartbreaking (but well worth the listen) for the reasonableness and understanding of what, especially with the view from here and now, should be done (and what should have been done from the start) in this crisis.
Experts from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health offer science and evidence-based insights on the public health news of the day. The current focus is the novel coronavirus spreading around the world.
Josh Sharfstein, who last month started the podcast, is the host of Public Health On Call.
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.
The information and conversations are on a daily basis. They take emailed questions of all types-the- kind of questions the average person has. The programs aren’t long 15-20 minutes, so your not drowning yourself in obsessive virus news. I know from the few I’ve listened to already that I’ve learned a whole lot of things that make a big difference in my understanding, preparing (as we all need to make adjustments ongoing), and acting.
There are a whole lot of people who know what they’re doing and are ready and willing to work ,and in fact, are working hard for the public welfare. And that in itself good to be reminded of. I know that there are governors and mayors out there that are actually listening to these people.
Anyway, I been playing it on Google and I can’t recommended it enough.