booster shots

AMA Update 224: RSV, flu trends plus COVID predictions with Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH

AMA Vice President of Science, Medicine and Public Health Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH, shares the latest post-Thanksgiving «tripledemic» trends, as well as findings from a new CDC study on how the updated boosters performed in the real world. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

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AMA Update 142: Which airlines and public transit require masks with Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH

AMA CXO Todd Unger reviews changes to the national mask mandate with AMA Director of Science, Medicine and Public Health Andrea Garcia, including which airlines no longer require masks and the cities still enforcing mask mandates on public transit. Also covering the emerging subvariants BA.2.12 and BA.2.12.1, a new COVID breath test, and why Americans over 60 should get a second booster shot.

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AMA Update 100: Bechara Choucair, MD, discusses the nation’s vaccination strategy

AMA CXO Todd Unger talks with Bechara Choucair, MD, vaccinations coordinator on the White House COVID-19 Response Team in Washington, D.C., about the nation’s vaccination strategy, including vaccine requirements, pediatric vaccination and boosters.

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AMA Update 71: Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH, discusses Delta variant impact on both the young and the old

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.

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