Welcome to Season 4 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former Commissioner of Health in Baltimore City.

Our goal is to bring

scientific evidence and experience to current topics in public health through engaging interviews

with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more.

If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question at jhhhu.edu.

That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes.

Hey, public health on call listeners. You're invited to join us virtually on Wednesday, November 10th,

for the 2021 Bloomberg American Health Summit.

This year's theme, Public Health Visible. You'll hear from great speakers and take in provocative

discussions about major challenges facing health in the United States, including COVID,

overdose, violence, climate, health problems facing immigrant children, and the

broken food system.

You can join the live stream at 9.30 a.m. Eastern Time on November 10th.

Learn more at Americanhealth.j.j.u.edu.

That's Americanhealth.j.j.u.

Today, we're bringing you another Friday Q&A. Dr. Amesh Adalja from the

Center for Health Security and Dr. Josh Sharfstein answer your questions sent to our email address,

public health question at jhhu.edu. Let's get right to it. Dr. Adalja, thank you so much for coming back to public health on call

to answer some questions from our listeners. How are you doing? I'm good. Thanks for having me back.

You're still out there seeing patients in hospitals who have COVID? Yes, I just worked yesterday,

and there are still primarily unvaccinated individuals getting hospitalized with COVID. I think it

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