Episode Details

“Travel is in our nature. We’ll have to counterbalance our new ‘normal’ when borders reopen to weigh in an extra element of risk.” –Dr. JP Santiago

In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Dr. JP Santiago talk about how to make sense of the misinformation about COVID-19 that has flooded social media, and how American cultural attitudes toward the pandemic differ from those in Asia (2:10); how COVID-19 affects its victims, and what data doctors are looking for about the pandemic (12:00); how the virus replicates itself, the duration of its incubation period, and how to stay healthy in public places (17:45); the importance of social distancing and self-quarantine for sick people, and how to keep from transmitting sickness to health workers (22:00); reliable online sources for information about the COVID-19 virus (29:00); how the pandemic has affected travel, and how travelers can stay healthy moving forward (32:00); what happens next with the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide, our efforts to create a vaccine, political foresight, and how the virus will affect human behavior moving forward (38:20).

JP Santiago has been a family medicine physician in private practice in Dallas/Fort Worth for nearly 20 years. He earned his medical degree in 1997 from the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, and did his residency training and was chief resident at the University of Kansas Medical Center before returning to Texas. He will be retiring from private practice in April to work for the Indian Health Service to provide medical care to Native American reservations as a traveling physician. His wife is a physician as well and he has four children. He maintains an aviation magazine online at: https://theavgeeks.com/

Notable Links:

• World Health Organization COVID-19 updates (website)
• JP’s updates on the COVID-19 pandemic (Facebook posts)
• Ajit Pai (FCC chairman under Donald Trump)
• 2020 COVID-19 pandemic (global viral outbreak)
• Social distancing (anti-contagion action)
• Intubation (medical procedure)
• Acute respiratory distress syndrome (lung inflammation)
• 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic (global viral outbreak)
• 2003 SARS outbreak (global viral outbreak)
• 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic (global viral outbreak)
• 2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome (global viral outbreak)
• CDC Travelers’ Health (website resource)
• Joshua Lederberg (American molecular biologist)

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