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Bonus Episode: Deep Dive on Public Health

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 Dr. Alessi dives further into the discussion he recently discussed with Connecticut Public Health Commissioner Manisha Juthani. Topics include how Connecticut stacks up against other states in terms of citizens' health, confusion over health recommendations and waning confidence in the federal government, the continued importance of vaccines, and potential lost ground on research as a result of a culture trending toward an attack on science. Submit questions for Healthy Rounds: HealthyRounds@uchc.edu DPH Commissioner Manisha Juthani: https://portal.ct.gov/DPH/About-the-Commissioner UConn Health: https://www.uconnhealth.org Support from UConn Health Orthopedics and Sports Medicine: https://www.uconnhealth.org/orthopedics-sports-medicine Grant support from Coverys: www.coverys.com Transcript Dr. Alessi: Welcome to the Healthy Rounds Podcast, where we provide you with up-to-date, timely medical information from national and international leaders in their fields. This podcast is brought to you by UConn Health, with support from the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and a grant from Coverys. The podcast is not designed to direct your personal health care, which should only be done by your physician. I’m your host, Dr. Anthony Alessi, and it’s great to be with you for what we’ve come to be known as “the Deep Dive” in terms of looking back at a recent podcast we did. In this case, one we did last week with Dr. Manisha Juthani. Dr. Juthani is the Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Health. She’s a medical doctor and a specialist in infectious diseases, and my conversation with her was very educational and brought out so many things that I didn’t know about the Department of Public Health and the vast job that she faces. We started off the interview by asking her how she ended up getting this job and it’s interesting because she related the situation where she was working at Yale and COVID was developing, and basically it was a situation where Governor Lamont felt that he had a confidence in her and really it was the fact that he saw something in her in terms of her ability to lead, that he brought her into his cabinet and into this executive role. And it relates back to my conversation with Dr. Agwunobi, who again talked about his father as an inspiration for him. And it brings to me in my own life that there are so many people who professionally inspired me to move ahead in the medical field. And, it’s something that I’ve always felt is as adults, we have somewhat of a responsibility to encourage young people to inspire them when they may not have that confidence in themselves to achieve great things, things that they want to do, whether it be medicine, whether it be business. If we recognize some attribute in that child or in that young person, it’s worth mentioning like, you know, “you really have a future”. And really those words from an adult can really change someone’s life, as it does for so many people. I think many professionals, many successful people, whether they be actors or sports stars again, have gone through that. Probably the single most important question I asked Dr. Juthani was, “are we safer living here in Connecticut as opposed to other states in this country?” And the reason I ask that is because we have seen such a dramatic change in leadership with respect to health here in the United States. People have lost confidence in the Centers for Disease Control. Just think about that. The Centers for Disease Control have been really the hallmark of research in many areas, and it’s been the hallmark for people throughout the world. And yet we here in the United States have lost confidence in them. That loss of confidence primarily comes from their positions now on childhood vaccination, and as she explained it, the difference is basically at this point surrounding three vaccinations. Here in Connecticut, we require 14 vaccinations that are administered at different points in a child’s development. The CDC has made three of those now optional, specifically measles, meningitis, and hepatitis. So, here in Connecticut, those are still required if a child is going to attend public school and be around other children. So, here in Connecticut, when it comes to these vaccinations, from that standpoint, we are somewhat safer because they’re still required. But the CDC has raised doubt. It’s raised doubt in parents’ minds that these vaccines may cause autism, for which there is no scientific proof, and we’ll get into some of that a little bit later. But, the point here is that you need to really discuss this with your physician, and I think everyone believes that. It’s also a thing that she mentioned that, so childhood vaccinations are administered to prevent disease. That’s the idea. To prevent polio, to prevent smallpox, or measles, any of these contagious diseases that could lead to death in some cases, or be crippling in the case of...
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