361 - Friday Q&A With Dr. Amesh Adalja
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
I am fully vaccinated with the Moderna vaccine. If I catch the delta variant will I acquire additional immunity—in addition to the immunity to the vaccination? If I received the COVID-19 vaccine and I'm now breastfeeding, will my baby receive antibodies? Do masks get less effective depending on how long they're worn?
Dr. Amesh Adalja of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security addresses your questions submitted to publichealthquestion@jhu.edu.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 4 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former Commissioner of Health in Baltimore City. |
| 0:20.0 | Our goal is to bring |
| 0:21.7 | scientific evidence and experience to current topics in public health through engaging interviews |
| 0:27.1 | with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. |
| 0:32.8 | If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question at jhhhu.edu. |
| 0:40.4 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:46.6 | Today we return to a tradition at public health on call, the Friday Q&A episode. |
| 0:51.8 | I speak with senior scholar from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health |
| 0:55.5 | Security, Dr. Amish Adalja. I pose a whole bunch of questions we received through public |
| 1:02.8 | health question at jh.hu.edu. Let's listen. Dr. Amish Adalja, thank you so much for joining me for |
| 1:10.3 | a question and answer podcast. |
| 1:13.2 | We haven't done one of these in quite a while. |
| 1:15.7 | How are you doing these days? |
| 1:17.6 | I'm doing good. |
| 1:18.6 | COVID is still a busy topic that takes up almost all of my time, but from a patient care |
| 1:24.0 | perspective and I practice in Pittsburgh, it's been pretty good. |
| 1:27.1 | And I think that's because |
| 1:28.0 | Pittsburgh is a place that we have a lot of people, especially the high risk individuals vaccinated. |
| 1:33.5 | So we have cases, but we don't necessarily have hospitalizations, which I think is the best |
| 1:38.0 | scenario to hope for. Well, I'm glad to hear that. You ready to jump in? |
| 1:43.0 | Sure. All right. First question from one of our listeners, I'm glad to hear that. You ready to jump in? Sure. All right. |
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