3.47 COVID-19 Vaccine Results, Messaging on a Patient Level, & Schools with Dr. Monica Gandhi

Plenary Session

Vinay Prasad, MD MPH

Health, Medicine, Policy, Oncology, Science & Medicine

4.7 • 789 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Today we interview Dr. Monica Gandhi, Associate Division Chief of the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at UCSF/ San Francisco General Hospital, and medical director of the HIV Clinic at SFGH, on COVID-19 interventions. We talk about results from the vaccine studies and how vaccination is perceived by the public. We talk about her new paper out now in The Lancet Infectious Disease on the importance of non-pharmaceutical interventions (masking, social distancing, ventilation, hand-washing) in controlling COVID-19. We also talk about the stark difference between messaging created from the point of view of an epidemiologist vs the public health messaging that frontline health care workers deliver directly to patients. We end the interview by talking about schools and the need to re-open them. Importance of non-pharmaceutical interventions: doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30982-8 Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew

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0:00.0	Welcome. I'm Dr. Vinay Prasad. I'm a hematologist, oncologist, and I'm associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. In my professional life, I see patients, I teach trainees, and I do research in health care policy. This is Plenary Session. Plenary session is a
0:24.0	podcast at the intersection of medicine, oncology, and health policy. And you're listening to
0:28.5	Season 3 on this week's episode. This week on Plenary Session, I'm back in the studio with Dr. Monica
0:36.1	Gandhi. Something Gandhi. Something
0:37.5	happened. Something deeply unfortunate happened. Monica Gandhi has a lousy surge protector.
0:43.7	I blame it on the Surge Protector because the plug came unplugged and we lost two bits of conversation.
0:51.0	We have four parts to this Plenary Session podcast and two have been erased forever.
0:56.6	So you get two parts.
0:57.8	So it is a bit of discontinuous conversation.
1:02.0	But I think it's still worth it.
1:04.3	It's still quite satisfying.
1:05.5	Hope you enjoy.
1:08.2	If you like this podcast and want more content, follow me on Twitter at Viprasad MDMPH.
1:14.7	Check out the YouTube channel, Vinay Prasad, MDMPH.
1:18.9	Patreon backers will get access to the slides for lectures I give on plenary session.
1:23.5	Want to hear from us?
1:24.7	Email us your question at plenary session podcast at gmail.com.
1:37.4	Okay, we're back.
1:39.6	Monica Gandhi just unplugged me.
1:43.4	So we can say lots of things.
1:45.1	Uh-huh.
1:45.3	So now she's back on the record.
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