002 - Understanding the Spread of COVID-19
Public Health On Call · Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Show Notes
Dr. Josh Sharfstein interviews infectious disease epidemiologist Dr. Justin Lessler on the features of viruses that lead to worldwide contagion, how COVID-19 compares with the flu in terms of speed, and where the evidence now points for this novel coronavirus.
Dr. Justin Lessler is an Associate Professor in Epidemiology. Dr. Josh Sharfstein is the Vice Dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and former secretary of Maryland's Department of Health.
More information: jhsph.edu/covid-19
KEYWORDS: asymptomatic, influenza, transmission