Measles news, new COVID study findings, plus Life in Media Survey on kids’ mental health and phones
Is flu season over? What helps allergies at home? Are there long-term effects of COVID? Do people get sick more often after COVID? Why kids should have phones?
AMA’s Vice President of Science, Medicine and Public Health, Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH, discusses the ongoing measles outbreak, latest study on COVID and the immune system, managing seasonal allergies, plus a new study about kids mental health and smartphone use. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.
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AMA Update April 14, 2025
00:00 Kids and smartphones
00:50 Measles outbreak
01:34 Measles Lubbock Texas
02:23 Measles Indiana
02:46 Measles Colorado
03:33 Flu, RSV and COVID wastewater data
04:31 New COVID study: Why do I keep getting sick after COVID?
05:33 After effects of COVID19 on human body (COVID hospitalizations)
06:45 Seasonal allergy tips
07:54 Nasal steroids: Seasonal allergy medicine
09:21 Life in Media Survey results
10:14 Kids mental health with smartphones
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Mobile phone use and harms: iโm currently seeing a lot of ads about radiation harms from cellphones and stick on gadgets to reduce them. Iโve also read that cellphone radiation is NOT harmful because itโs low grade non-ionising radiation, unlike ionising radiation from X rays etc. Any clarification?
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Thank you so much for posting this helpful information! going from 500-600 cases in one month for something as extremely contagious as measles, is very serious.
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Thumbs down if you love easily preventable communicable diseases!
This is not new information
Thank you for the continual updates.
What are the confounding factors in the cell phone study?
Has wealth been accounted for? Does social status drive cell phone usage in children?
Do family belief factors or family status affect the childs well being as well as phone ownership?
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I appreciate these updates. Thanks for mentioning the immune suppression resulting from SARS-CoV-2. People need to know.
Interesting finding regarding kids and smartphones…could the mere fact of smartphone ownership now signal wealth and status more? I remember when I was a kid, braces on one's teeth made one an object of ridicule. I only have anecdotal evidence of this, but braces can now be seen as a status symbol, something to be celebrated–your folks can afford to have your teeth straightened. Just a thought…
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Talk about allergy ears — pollen gets into ear canals and causes issues too — eyes, nose, AND ears
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I think kids with smart phones see their friends in person more because they can communicate with them more easily. My 12 year old has a phone. I discourage her from using social media, and she's not very interested in it yet, but she has group chat with friends and often plays social games on her phone. It is important for kids to know not everyone is who they seem to be online and what information they definitely shouldn't share with someone they haven't met in person.
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We really appreciate the informed updates, thank you!
I'm going to keep repeating here how gratifying your channel is for your calm, measured and factual reporting. News whose only bias is science. You are a calm eye in a hurricane of hysterical overacting nonsense. Thank you for your professionalism.
Measles depleats memory B- and T-cells causing immune amnesia. This weakens immune defenses against previous encountered pathogens making you susceptible to infections that the body had already built immunity against.