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BONUS - How Worried Should the Vaccinated be About Delta?
Season 3
With so much news about the Delta variant and calls for many vaccinated people to mask up again, Gigi Gronvall of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health…
5 years, 1 month ago
354 - A Public Health Official Is Fired in Tennessee
Season 4 Episode 354
Until recently, Dr. Michelle Fiscus served as the Medical Director for Immunization Programs at the Tennessee Department of Health. But after sending…
5 years, 1 month ago
353 - How Delta and Low Vaccination Rates are Feeding a Deadly Surge of COVID-19 in Missouri
Season 3 Episode 353
After a drop in COVID hospitalizations and deaths over the spring and early summer, hospitals in southwest Missouri are at capacity again. Steve Edwa…
5 years, 1 month ago
352 - COVID-19 Research Update: The Delta Variant
Season 4 Episode 352
In this episode, Dr. Josh Sharfstein talks with researchers who break down three papers about the delta variant. Carli Jones, a PhD student at Hopkin…
5 years, 2 months ago
351 - A Vaccine with that Haircut? Barber Shops and the Fight Against COVID-19
Season 4 Episode 351
Dr. Stephen Thomas, the director of the University of Maryland Center for Health Equity, works with barber shops in the African-American community to…
5 years, 2 months ago
350 - Book Club: A Meningitis Outbreak from Pharmaceutical Compounding
Season 3 Episode 350
Dr. Joshua Sharfstein speaks to Jason Dearen, author of the book Kill Shot: A Shadow Industry, A Deadly Disease. The book covers the nationwide menin…
5 years, 2 months ago
349 - Mucormycosis: The Black Fungus Killing COVID-19 Patients in India
Season 4 Episode 349
Fungal diseases are rare but, once diagnosed, incredibly hard to treat and often fatal. The overwhelming surge of COVID-19 cases in India has given r…
5 years, 2 months ago
348 - Mental Health Before, During and After the Pandemic
Season 3 Episode 348
The pandemic has caused trauma, grief, and stress leading to depression, anxiety, and worsening of other mental health conditions. Dr. Adam Karpati, …
5 years, 2 months ago
347 - COVID-19 Vaccines Update: Boosters, FDA Approval, New Vaccines, and More
Season 4 Episode 347
Will we need COVID-19 booster shots and, if so, when? Where is the FDA in its approval process of the vaccines currently under emergency use authoriz…
5 years, 2 months ago
346 - Vermont’s Response to COVID-19
Season 3 Episode 346
Vermont has had far fewer COVID cases, hospitalizations, and deaths than many other states, and health commissioner Dr. Mark Levine credits a number …
5 years, 2 months ago