DOC AMA: Johnson & Johnson Says Booster Shot Yields Strong Immune Response, Tracking Breakthrough Cases And More
In our continuing series looking at the latest medical research and news on COVID-19, Larry Mantle speaks with Dr. Tim Brewer from UCLA.
Today’s topics include:
- Delta variant in US has entered deadlier phase
- J&J vaccine booster shot raises antibody levels 9-fold, company says
- Pfizer and BioNTech release new booster trial results of their Covid vaccine
- Experts warn of twindemic, urge vaccine
- After signs of leveling, COVID-19 hospitalizations in L.A. County tick back up
- Delta airlines to impose $200 monthly surcharge for unvaccinated employees, add testing requirements
- Holes in reporting of breakthrough COVID-19 cases hamper CDC response
- Tracking California COVID-19 cases at local hospitals
- Hospitals are running out of ICU beds as severe COVID-19 cases soar
Postpartum Depression: The Warning Signs, Challenges And Long Term Impacts
Today on AirTalk, we talk with Eynav Accortt, research scientist and clinical psychologist who leads the reproductive psychology team in the OB GYN department at Cedars-Sinai about postpartum mental health, the serious impacts, the importance of screenings and more. We want to hear from you. How has postpartum depression impacted your life? Tell us your story by calling 866-893-5722.
A Tale Of Two Recalls: Comparing And Contrasting 2003 To 2021
In less than three weeks on September 14th, voters in California will decide for a second time this century whether they want to recall their Governor. Some are calling this déjà vu in reference to the 2003 vote which removed Gray Davis, and instead installed Arnold Schwarzenegger. In that race, more people voted for the actor than Davis, meaning the candidate with the most votes won. But even so, the state’s current recall is raising some familiar questions about its constitutionality and whether it violates equal protection rights of the incumbent governor and his supporters.
Today on AirTalk, we’re talking with Rob Stutzman, Republican political consultant and former deputy chief of staff to Governor Schwarzenegger, and Raphe Sonenshein, executive director of the Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs at Cal State LA, about how the 2003 race compares to the current one.
California Heat Standards Are Held Up As The Model. Has Climate Change Made Them Obsolete?
In the summer of 2005, a terrible three-week heat wave swept through the West, driving temperatures to scorching triple-digit levels. Four farmworkers working the fields of central California died.
Public health experts and federal workplace regulators consider heat-related illness and death to be 100% preventable, they say. But California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health — Cal/OSHA, the agency that enforces the heat standard — has been chronically underfunded and understaffed. The result, according to dozens of interviews, a review of government records and an analysis of worker heat death cases: Farmworkers, firefighters, construction workers and others required to work in hot environments continue to die.
Today on AirTalk, we’re joined by Jacob Margolis, KPCC/LAist science reporter, Brian Edwards, investigative fellow at Columbia University in New York and Marc Schenker, distinguished professor of public health sciences and medicine at UC Davis. He is also founding director of the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, the Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety, and the Migration and Health Research Center to learn more.
With files from LAist