Season 1 · Episode 40
040 - Historian John Barry on COVID-19
Public Health On Call · Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
April 13, 202017m 51s
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Show Notes
The historical context of 1918 shaped much of the response to the flu pandemic in the US—just it will with COVID-19. Dr. Paul Spiegel, director of the Center for Humanitarian Health, talks with historian and author John Barry about how an absence of credible leadership and messaging hindered response efforts then and what lessons we can apply today.
Learn more: jhsph.edu/covid-19