4.15 #AllCOVID-19: the Tough Questions About Policies Concerning the Delta Variant of COVID-19

Plenary Session

Vinay Prasad, MD MPH

Health, Medicine, Policy, Oncology, Science & Medicine

4.7 • 789 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Today we're compiling all our recent monologues on COVID-19. That's right -- we're taking a break from #zerocovid to give you an episode that's #allcovid! We cover a whole range of news and opinions covering the Delta variant. We give an evidence-based-medicine doctor's take on the question: Are RCTs necessary in the age of COVID19? We also talk about how the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) lost the narrative. We detail how America failed kids because the AAP, CDC, & the teachers unions all hate Trump more than they love kids. We cover vaccine boosters: are they justified? Is there enough evidence? We detail how to run a randomized controlled trial of a policy intervention. And, finally, we confront the New York Times opinion article "Actually, Wearing a Mask Can Help Your Child Learn". We confront the tough questions: Do children really need to see faces? Why do we even have faces? 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 to plenary session.
0:08.0	I'm Vinay Prasad.
0:09.0	I'm an associate professor with University of California, San Francisco.
0:12.0	I'm a practicing hemank doctor, and my interests are medicine, oncology, and health policy.
0:16.0	And that's what you're going to get on plenary session.
0:19.0	This week on plenary session, in honor of Delta, we're going to take a break from our planned, hashtag zero COVID, and we're going to cover SARS-CoV-2.
0:28.6	I'm going to put together all of the clips I've been putting out on the YouTube channel into one episode.
0:33.6	And if you want to keep up with all of the content, you're going to have to go to YouTube and subscribe and I Prasad MDMPH. Check it out there. And without further ado,
0:43.2	this is a special episode. It's in violation of season four rules, but it is in fact,
0:48.0	hashtag all COVID, hashtag Delta. If you like this podcast, leave us a rating or write us a review.
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1:03.4	Give us your suggestions on what we should be covering.
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1:11.3	When are randomized control trials necessary and when are they superfluous?
1:15.2	I've been looking on Twitter and I see people don't know what they're talking about.
1:18.5	So let me walk you through randomization.
1:21.2	I think the easiest way to conceptualize this is to think of a spectrum.
1:24.8	On one end, we have the absolute worst thing you can do to somebody. And on the other end, you have the absolute worst thing you can do to somebody,
1:28.2	and on the other end, you have the absolute best thing you can do to somebody. And in the middle
1:32.0	is a line of neutrality, all the things in life we do to somebody that doesn't matter one way or the
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