539 - When Surges of Respiratory Disease Meet a Mental Health Crisis
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Disappointing rates of child and adolescent vaccination for COVID are colliding with an intensifying seasonal storm of viral illnesses including flu and RSV. ERs and pediatric ICU beds are already filling up in some areas and many more kids will miss precious school time on top of pandemic learning loss. Pediatrician Dr. Megan Tschudy talks with Stephanie Desmon about the importance of vaccination in prevention and protection, a worsening child and adolescent mental health crisis, and why the pandemic's lingering aftershocks are far from over.
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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 |
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| 0:35.1 | future podcast episodes. |
| 0:40.8 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer, Public Health On Call. |
| 0:45.4 | Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Dr. Megan Chetty, a Johns Hopkins pediatrician, |
| 0:51.6 | about the importance of getting COVID vaccines and boosters to kids where vaccination rates are extremely low. |
| 0:57.0 | She also warns of a tridemic that is coming as COVID, flu, and RSV-Phil Children's Hospital ICU beds. Let's listen. Megan Chudy, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:05.2 | Thank you for having me. I'm looking forward to this conversation. Yeah, we really need a pediatric |
| 1:09.6 | perspective at the moment because we're hearing so much |
| 1:13.1 | about COVID and booster shots and we're hearing that not a lot of kids have been getting |
| 1:19.5 | their COVID vaccines. |
| 1:21.0 | Talk to me about that. |
| 1:22.0 | What are you seeing? |
| 1:23.0 | Sure. |
| 1:24.0 | So I work as a general pediatrician and we can start with where I talk to my patients, really about |
| 1:27.9 | prevention and protection, and we need both of those together. So the American Academy of Pediatrics |
| 1:33.6 | and every major medical association and the CDC have all talked about COVID vaccination |
| 1:39.3 | being the single best way for that protection that I talked about, so to protect people from |
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