Follow the Data Podcast

74. The Data Behind The Pandemic

Episode Summary

Cities and states are reopening, even as coronavirus cases are surging in the United States. Dr. Tom Inglesby and his team at the Center for Health Security of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health use research, data, and expert analysis to advise decision makers about public health practices to mitigate the effects of epidemics and disasters like COVID-19. In this episode, Dr. Inglesby sat down with Bloomberg Philanthropies public health program lead Dr. Kelly Henning to tell us more about how states are looking at data to inform school and office reopenings, whether we’re in the first or second wave of COVID-19, and the power of social media during the pandemic.