VIDEO: A clinician’s perspective of the early days of COVID-19

In this video, Amesh A. Adalja, MD, a senior scholar in the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, describes his experiences during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
“As soon as I realized that there was sustained human-to-human transmission ... that’s when I realized that COVID-19 was not going to be a containable virus and that a pandemic was going to occur,” he said.
Adalja also explains what topped his list of global health threats before the pandemic — no surprise, it’s also a respiratory virus — and what it was like caring for

In this video, Amesh A. Adalja, MD, a senior scholar in the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, describes his experiences during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
“As soon as I realized that there was sustained human-to-human transmission … that’s when I realized that COVID-19 was not going to be a containable virus and that a pandemic was going to occur,” he said.
Adalja also explains what topped his list of global health threats before the pandemic — no surprise, it’s also a respiratory virus — and what it was like caring for