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Discussion with AMA’s Director of Science, Medicine & Public Health, Andrea Garcia, to review COVID-19 vaccine numbers and trending topics related to the pandemic over the past week. Also covering challenges faced by southern states in the wake of Hurricane Ida, and the U.S. returning to a daily average of more than 100,000 COVID-19 patients hospitalized.
A discussion with Dr. Paul Offit, the director of the Vaccine Education Center and an attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, about the importance of getting vaccinated and what physicians need to know about COVID and kids.
A discussion with LaShyra “Lash” Nolen, founding executive director of the We Got Us Empowerment Project and president of her medical school class at Harvard Medical School, about how she’s empowering Black communities to make decisions about COVID vaccines by providing accurate, culturally sensitive information in unique ways.
AMA president and family medicine specialist, Dr. Gerald Harmon, dives into the details about the FDA’s full approval of the Pfizer vaccine—and what it means for physicians and patients.
Discussion with AMA’s Director of Science, Medicine and Public Health, Andrea Garcia, to review COVID-19 vaccine numbers and trending topics related to the pandemic over the past week. Also covering the FDA’s full approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, booster shots and vaccine mandates.
A discussion with with Jordan Tralins, a rising junior at Cornell University and founder of the COVID Campus Coalition, about her work to address vaccine hesitancy among young adults.
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Dr. Sandra Fryhofer, AMA’s liaison to ACIP and a member of ACIP’s COVID-19 Vaccine Workgroup, discusses what physicians need to know about the recent FDA authorization for a third COVID vaccine dose for immunocompromised patients.
Discussion with AMA’s Director of Science, Medicine and Public Health, Andrea Garcia to review COVID-19 vaccine numbers and trending topics related to the pandemic over the past week. Also covering third dose vaccines for the immunocompromised, vaccine recommendations for pregnant people, and state-level approaches for students headed back to school this fall.
Discussion with AMA’s Director of Science, Medicine & Public Health, Andrea Garcia, to review COVID-19 vaccine numbers and trending topics related to the pandemic over the past week. Also covering global COVID-19 milestones, booster shots, and more detail on «younger, sicker, quicker» phrase/trend.