508 - Back to School: COVID, New CDC Guidance, Monkeypox, and More with Keri Althoff and Liz Stuart
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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How should parents be thinking about their kids returning to school in the context of updated CDC guidelines on COVID, the potential for monkeypox outbreaks, and an uptick in other viruses? Experts Keri Althoff and Liz Stuart return to the podcast to talk with Stephanie Desmon about what's new this school year, making sense of COVID risks and guidelines, vaccine mandates for kids age 12 and up, and thinking about a "more holistic approach to health" that takes prevention of other illnesses into account.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, |
| 0:17.1 | and a former health commissioner here in Baltimore. |
| 0:19.7 | Our goal is to bring evidence and experience |
| 0:22.2 | to illuminate critical public health issues. |
| 0:25.4 | If you have questions or ideas for us, |
| 0:27.4 | please send an email to public health question at jhh.edu. |
| 0:31.6 | That's public health question at jhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:37.8 | Hey listeners, it's Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call, |
| 0:41.6 | and we want to hear from you. |
| 0:44.1 | In more than 500 episodes since March 2020, |
| 0:47.3 | we've been bringing you the latest on urgent public health topics like COVID-19, |
| 0:51.7 | climate change, gun violence, monkeypox, racism, and more. |
| 0:55.9 | We'll continue to cover these, but we'd like to know what other public health topics |
| 1:00.2 | would you like to hear more about. |
| 1:02.2 | Plus, you can enter to win some amazing podcast swag, including the Beach Toat, |
| 1:06.8 | featured on our Twitter account. |
| 1:08.6 | Please go to publichealth.j.j.u.edu slash public health on call slash survey to take a |
| 1:16.5 | brief survey of potential future topics. |
| 1:19.3 | This will be open until September 9th, and that link is publichealth.j.j.u.edu slash public health |
| 1:27.3 | on call slash survey. We're excited to hear from you, |
| 1:30.8 | and thank you so much for listening. Today, Stephanie Desmond welcomes back Dr. Elizabeth |
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