Sponsored message
Logged in as
Audience-funded nonprofit news
radio tower icon laist logo
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
 — 
See All Episodes
Subscribe

Hey, LA listener!

Download our app for the optimal streaming experience

Apple Store logo Google play logo
  • Listen Now Playing Listen
  • Listen Now Playing Listen
AirTalk

COVID-19 AMA: CDC Issues New Guidelines On Distancing At Schools, CA Breaks Its Weekly Vaccination Record

By AirTalk Staff
Published Mar 19, 2021
Students work on their laptop computers at St. Joseph Catholic School in La Puente, California on November 16, 2020, where pre-kindergarten to Second Grade students in need of special services returned to the classroom today for in-person instruction. - The campus is the second Catholic school in Los Angeles County to receive a waiver approval to reopen as the coronavirus pandemic rages on. The US surpassed 11 million coronavirus cases Sunday, adding one million new cases in less than a week, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)
Students work on their laptop computers at St. Joseph Catholic School in La Puente, California on November 16, 2020, where pre-kindergarten to Second Grade students in need of special services returned to the classroom today for in-person instruction.
(
FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images
)
Listen 23:00
COVID-19 AMA: CDC Issues New Guidelines On Distancing At Schools, CA Breaks Its Weekly Vaccination Record

In our continuing series looking at the latest medical research and news on COVID-19, Larry Mantle speaks with Dr. Annabelle De St. Maurice of UCLA/Mattel Children’s Hospital.

Topics today include:

  • CDC reduces physical distancing guidelines for schoolchildren

  • CA logs record-breaking week of vaccinations

  • Cost to vaccinate Californians rises amid changes to Blue Shield oversight

  • Concerns about increased transmission in Florida during spring break

  • New U.K. study finds slow walkers more likely to die of COVID

  • Moderna testing vaccines on young children (a few days old but I think it’d be worth bringing up, given your area of expertise)

  • More than 4 in 10 health-care workers have not been vaccinated, Post-KFF poll finds

  • AstraZeneca COVID-19 shots resume in Germany after EU declares vaccine safe

  • Why side effects are worse after a second dose of COVID-19

​Today, we had a question from a listener about how one could find out more about vaccine trials. Our guest, Dr. De St. Maurice, shared some links for more information on vaccine trials:

Guest:

Annabelle De St. Maurice, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics in the division of infectious diseases and the co-chief infection prevention officer at University of California Los Angeles/Mattel Children’s Hospital; she tweets