4.20 Vaccinating Kids and College Students, Boosters, Outdoor Masking, Bangladesh RCT, & more!

Plenary Session

Vinay Prasad, MD MPH

Health, Medicine, Policy, Oncology, Science & Medicine

4.7 • 789 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Today we take a brief break from our #zerocovid mantra to offer you our thoughts on current events. We cover a variety of topics, including: medical doctors in academia, cancelling conferences even for the vaccinated, masking 2-year-olds, equipoise, the CDC Georgia study, myocarditis, booster shots, outdoor masking at Duke, no more zero COVID in Australia, the Bangladesh cluster RCT on masks and its implications for kids in the USA, the resignation of two senior FDA officials, LA schools mandating vaccines, vaccinating college students, and more. 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.
0:55.4	It helps new listeners find the show.
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1:00.2	You can email us at plenary session podcast at gmail.com.
1:03.5	Give us your suggestions on what we should be covering.
1:06.2	And if you really love this show, you can back us on patreon.com.
1:10.9	There are a lot of doctors who work at universities, and there are a lot of doctors who are
1:14.5	called professor.
1:15.6	But shockingly, there are very few real academics.
1:19.8	See, what's the difference between a real academic and somebody who merely has the trappings
1:24.2	of being an academic?
1:25.1	Well, most people in the academy, even to this
1:28.0	day, pick up their beliefs and cues from people around them. They see what their
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