AMA CXO Todd Unger reviews COVID-19 news and trending topics related to the pandemic over the past week with AMA Director of Science, Medicine and Public Health Andrea Garcia. Also covering what we know about the BA.2 Omicron subvariant, if a new surge is coming soon, the latest on booster shots and changing data collection on the pandemic.
0:00 AMA COVID-19 Update for March 23, 2022
0:41 Share details of emerging BA.2 Omicron subvariant
2:00 How widespread is BA.2 in the U.S.?
3:16 Is the new variant as transmissible as the BA.1 Omicron variant?
5:07 Are vaccines effective against the new variant?
6:16 Are there concerns about waning immunity?
7:17 Do we have a timeline for FDA decisions on vaccines and boosters?
8:57 Will recently lifted restrictions be put back in place if there is an uptick in cases?
9:50 COVID relief money has run out; will treatments be harder to come by given federal funding for a new COVID package has not yet been approved?
11:23 Share details about Dr. Ashish Jha, the administration’s new COVID czar
12:38 Some U.S. states are ceasing daily COVID reporting—how will this affect our ability to detect and track another surge?
13:24 What's the response been to these changes?
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