I feel so self-conscious listening to myself talk, but I really enjoyed participated in @bmj_latest's Talk Medicine podcast on the #publicheath response to COVID19. "The reality is, if you don't protect public health, you are going to tank the economy." https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/the-public-health-response-to-covid-19

~19:50: "Even if the priority is the economy, you absolutely have to act to prioritize public health & protect human life. Because you are not going to have much of an economy if your workers are sick & people don't feel safe to go out & make purchases & partake in public life."

~26:50: "The nature of the actions that are required by social distancing are so profoundly disruptive & profoundly dependent on trust....anything to erode that public trust in either government officials or public health authorities is a real concern for our ability to respond"

~35:30: "We are in this for the long haul, and in the absence of a vaccine, which will take an absolute minimum 12-18 months, we are going to have to make some really difficult decisions... so leaders who are transparent about that is going to be incredibly important." #COVID19

"Some of these decisions are going to have to be made with uncertain data...We will need for decision makers to be very transparent about what evidence they are making decisions on and also what we still don't know yet...I think that's profoundly important for public trust..."

"The last point I would add is that the intense lockdown or social distancing is absolutely necessary right now to delay the spread of this virus, but we also have to be making the best use possible of the time we're buying for ourselves because it does have profound costs."