What Really Happened at the CDC

About this episode

Abdul and Katelyn discuss recent public health developments and interview Dr. Annette Campbell-Anderson about school cell phone bans.

Abdul and Katelyn discuss the week in public health, which includes: Former CDC Director Susan Monarez’s Senate testimony, where she revealed a series of bombshell revelations about the chaos in the department This week's ACIP meeting, and how it might affect access to the Hepatitis B vaccine The good news that private insurers will be covering the cost of vaccines as normal The Trump Administration’s move to clamp down on pharmaceutical ads Then Abdul sits down with Dr. Annette Campbell-Anderson, Deputy Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, to discuss why more schools across the country are implementing cell phone bans. Check out our shop at store.americadissected.com for our new America Dissected merch – including logo shirts, hoodies and mugs. And don’t miss our “Vaccines Work. Science Matters.” t-shirts! This show would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors. America Dissected invites you to check them out. This episode was brought to you by: Incogni: Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code DISSECTED at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: https://incogni.com/dissected NPR Life Kit: Listen now to the…

People in this episode

Hosts: Abdul, Katelyn

Guest: Dr. Annette Campbell-Anderson

Topics covered

• public health
• CDC testimony
• vaccine access
• pharmaceutical ads
• cell phone bans
• school policies

Keywords

• CDC
• vaccine
• public health
• cell phone bans
• pharmaceutical ads
• Hepatitis B
• Senate testimony

Sponsors

Incogni, NPR, ExpressVPN

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CDC, ACIP, Trump Administration

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