It’s the Midday Healthwatch, with Dr. Leana Wen.

COVID numbers are up, compounded by big increases in rates of influenza and RSV. Is there a full blown COVID surge on the way in the US? Experts fear that there may be a surge in China. Will highly transmissible Omicron variants prove to be too much for China’s zero-COVID policy to handle?

And the advances made in telemedicine during the pandemic made healthcare more accessible for millions of people. Will policy makers make sure that access continues?

Democrats and the Biden Administration have promised to lower the cost of prescription drugs. In a columnin the Washington Post, Dr. Wen profiled Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the first Black woman to lead the Center for Medicare and Medicaid, and the woman charged with overseeing the drug pricing program, and a host of other programs.

We'll discuss these and other topics today...

Dr. Wen is one of America’s most trusted and knowledgeable public health experts. She is a former health commissioner of Baltimore and an emergency physician. She teaches at the George Washington University's Milken Institute School of Public Health. She writes a column for the Washington Post.  She’s a medical analyst for CNN, a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health.

Dr. Leana Wen joins us on Zoom…

It’s the <a href="https://www.wypr.org/tags/midday-healthwatch">Midday Healthwatch</a>, with Dr. Leana Wen.
<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html">COVID numbers are up</a>, compounded by big increases in rates of influenza and RSV. Is there a full blown COVID surge on the way in the US? Experts fear that there may be a surge in <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/05/china/china-protests-loosen-restrictions-intl-hnk-mic/index.html">China</a>. Will highly transmissible Omicron variants prove to be too much for China’s zero-COVID policy to handle?
And the advances made in <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/08/telemedicine-public-health-emergency-covid-pandemic/">telemedicine</a> during the pandemic made healthcare more accessible for millions of people. Will policy makers make sure that access continues?
Democrats and the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/priorities/">Biden Administration</a> have promised to lower the cost of prescription drugs. In a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/16/biden-health-care-brooks-lasure-cms/">column</a> in the Washington Post, Dr. Wen profiled <a href="https://www.cms.gov/About-CMS/Leadership">Chiquita Brooks-LaSure</a>, the first Black woman to lead the Center for Medicare and Medicaid, and the woman charged with overseeing the drug pricing program, and a host of other programs.
We'll discuss these and other topics today...
Dr. Wen is one of America’s most trusted and knowledgeable public health experts. She is a former health commissioner of Baltimore and an emergency physician. She teaches at the <a href="https://publichealth.gwu.edu/departments/health-policy-and-management/leana-wen-md-msc_faaem">George Washington University's Milken Institute School of Public Health</a>. She writes a column for the<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/leana-s-wen/"> Washington Post</a>.  She’s a medical analyst for CNN, a non-resident Senior Fellow at the <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/experts/dr-leana-wen/">Brookings Institution </a>and the author of <a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250186249/lifelines">Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health.</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/drleanawen">Dr. Leana Wen</a> joins us on Zoom…

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Monday-Friday from noon-1:00, Tom Hall and his guests are talking about what's on your mind, and what matters most to Marylander's, the latest news, local and national politics, education and the environment, popular culture and the arts, sports and science, race and religion, movies and medicine. We welcome your questions and comments. E-mail us at <a href="mailto:midday@wypr.org">midday@wypr.org</a>

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Monday-Friday from noon-1:00, Tom Hall and his guests are talking about what's on your mind, and what matters most to Marylander's, the latest news, local and national politics, education and the environment, popular culture and the arts, sports and science, race and religion, movies and medicine.  We welcome your questions and comments. E-mail us at midday@wypr.org.

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