Did You Wash Your Hands?

Johnny Edwards, an investigative reporter with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has been speaking with people inside and outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who worry the agency's response to the COVID-19 pandemic has harmed its public reputation.

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Jenesta Hadley, who works at a healthcare laundry facility in south Georgia, is one of the many people who's job keeps the healthcare industry running in the midst of the pandemic. She says her job has become even more dangerous in the time of the coronavirus.

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Kathleen Hartnett, an epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says visits to hospital emergency departments dropped sharply in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and patients delaying emergency care could face serious health complications.

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Dr. Howard Markel, physician and historian of medicine at the University of Michigan, says recent protests and the tactics used to stop them could spread the coronavirus. He says similar situations occurred during the 1918 flu pandemic.

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Ivan Oransky has been tracking questionable studies on COVID-19 for the blog "Retraction Watch", which he co-founded (https://retractionwatch.com/retracted-coronavirus-covid-19-papers/). He shares his tips on telling the good research on the coronavirus from the not-so-good.

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Turgay Ayer, who studies healthcare analytics at Georgia Tech, helped build The COVID-19 Simulator (https://covid19sim.org/), which predicts how the coronavirus will spread as states start to lift restrictions on movement and activity. It predicts, the more states open, the more COVID-19 will spread.

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Molly Samuel, who covers the environment for WABE, says the state's farmers were still recovering from Hurricane Michael when the coronavirus struck, forcing them to innovate.

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Dr. Andi Shane, Medical Director of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, says physicians are still learning a lot about Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), a new condition possibly linked to the coronavirus. Also, how the pandemic is affecting childhood vaccination rates.

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Willoughby Mariano, a reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, says the Georgia Department of Public Health's handling of coronavirus data has made it harder for people to trust public officials.

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Dr. Kathleen Toomey, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health, talks about her agency's efforts to hire an army of disease detectives, to track down the contacts of everyone in Georgia who tests positive for COVID-19. She also addresses recent issues with her agency's COVID-19 data.

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