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AMA Update 233: Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, on healthy holidays, bivalent boosters, vaccine inequities & kids and COVID

How to stay healthy during the holidays with infectious disease expert, Peter Hotez, MD, PhD—who breaks down the «septo-demic» of: coronavirus, influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), metapneumovirus (HMPV), parainfluenza viruses (HPIVs), rhinovirus and numacocle pathogens. Dr. Hotez also shares details about fighting vaccine disinformation and his new book: “The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: How Health Freedom Propaganda Endangers the World.”

Dr. Hotez is dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development in Houston. He and his science partner, Maria Elena Bottazzi, PhD, have been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

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AMA Update 225: AMA President Jack Resneck Jr., MD, responds to disinformation, politicization of medicine

AMA President Jack Resneck Jr., MD, believes «we need to fix what’s broken—and it’s not the doctor.» This episode details the challenges facing physicians, their patients, and how now is the time for physicians to stand together in the fight for #HealthcareReform. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

Watch Dr. Resneck’s full speech here: https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/speeches/jack-resneck-jr-md-address-2022-interim-meeting-hod

Learn how the AMA is #FightingForDocs and access resources from the AMA Recovery Plan for America’s Physicians by visiting: https://www.ama-assn.org/recovery

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AMA Update 132: AMA President Gerald Harmon, MD, on fixing our health system and rebuilding trust

AMA CXO Todd Unger talks with AMA President Gerald Harmon, MD, a family medicine specialist in Pawleys Island, S.C., who shares five actions we can take now to fix our ailing health care system and rebuild trust.

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