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In June of 2022, the Food and Drug Administration approved COVID-19 vaccines for young children age 6 months to 5 years old. Yet only 12% of children age 6 months to 4 years have received one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Disparities exist among children of color, with only 6% of Black children and 5% of Latino children in LA County receiving at least one dose, compared to 22% of Asian children, 19% of White children, and 15% of American Indian and Alaska Native children. Dr. Nava Yeganeh, Medical Director of Vaccine Preventable Disease Control in the Acute Communicable Disease Control Program in the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, joins to discuss vaccine safety and how families can access COVID-19 vaccines and boosters for their children.
Links discussed during the show:
www.VaccinateLACounty.com
LA Public Health Vaccine Call Center: (833) 540-0473
LA Public Health's Homebound Vaccination Program
Coping with stress during the COVID-19 pandemic? The Department of Mental Health has online resources to help.
Follow our department across all social media platforms @lapublichealth.

Older adults are at increased risk for severe illness or even death from COVID-19, and risk increases with age.  In this episode, Steve is joined by Dr. Chandana Das, Lead Physician with the Healthcare Outreach Unit in the Department of Public Health and Dr. Pingting Nie, who is the Associate Chief of the Healthcare Outreach Unit in the Acute Communicable Disease Control Program in the Los Angeles Department of Public Health.
Links discussed during the show:
Find out where to get a COVID vaccine in Los Angeles County
In-home vaccinations are available through this online form.
Coping with stress? The Department of Mental Health has online resources to help.
Follow our department across all social media platforms @lapublichealth.

This holiday season we are seeing high rates of influenza – the flu – as well as RSV and COVID-19.  In this episode we are joined by Dr. Prabhu Gounder, Medical Director of the Respiratory Diseases Unit in the Communicable Diseases Control Program and Elizabeth Traub, Viral Respiratory Diseases Epidemiologist, who share about the flu season, flu shots, and how to best keep our families and ourselves healthy. 
Links discussed during the show:
Find out where to go to get a flu shot in LA County 
Acute Communicable Disease Control (ACDC) Homepage
ACDC Flu Information 
LA County Influenza Surveillance Reports
Coping with stress? The Department of Mental Health has online resources to help.
Follow our department across all social media platforms @lapublichealth.

In this episode Steve is joined by Dr. Gary Tsai, Director or the Division of Substance Abuse Prevention and Control in the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, and Ed Ternan, who together with his wife Mary founded Song for Charlie, a national family-run nonprofit charity dedicated to raising awareness about “fentapills” - fake pills made of fentanyl.
Links discussed during the show:
Get help online at www.recoverla.org 
Find treatment services now by calling (844) 804-7500
Visit Song for Charlie at www.songforcharlie.org
Connect with others who have lost a loved one to overdose at www.grasphelp.org 
Coping with stress? The Department of Mental Health has online resources to help.
Follow our department across all social media platforms @lapublichealth.

In this episode we are joined by Matt Ford, who shares his experience with monkeypox, and Dr. Leo Moore, Medical Director for Clinic Services in the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, who shares his expertise on what monkeypox is and how we can protect ourselves and others from infection.
Links discussed during the show:
LA Public Health's Monkeypox Homepage
LA Public Health's online vaccine sign-up
If you can't sign up online, call (833) 540-0473
Monkeypox signage and resources
Coping with stress? The Department of Mental Health has online resources to help.
Follow our department across all social media platforms @lapublichealth.

Therapeutics to help treat COVID-19 are now available and Dr. Seira Kurian, Area Health Officer in Service Planning Area 1-2 and LA County DPH's lead for therapeutics with the COVID response team, joins to share what medications are available, how they work, and how to access them.
Links discussed during the show:
LA Public Health Vaccine Call Center: (833) 540-0473
LA Public Health COVID medication information page
Homebound vaccination program online request form
In-home vaccination web page in English and Spanish
www.VaccinateLACounty.com
Coping with stress during the COVID-19 pandemic? The Department of Mental Health has online resources to help.
Follow our department across all social media platforms @lapublichealth.