Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, on healthy holidays, bivalent boosters, vaccine inequities & kids and COVID

How to stay healthy during the holidays with infectious disease expert, Peter Hotez, MD, PhD—who breaks down the "septo-demic" of: coronavirus, influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), metapneumovirus (HMPV), parainfluenza viruses (HPIVs), rhinovirus and numacocle pathogens. Dr. Hotez also shares details about fighting vaccine disinformation and his new book: “The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: How Health Freedom Propaganda Endangers the World.” Dr. Hotez is dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and co-director of the Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development in Houston. He and his science partner, Maria Elena Bottazzi, PhD, have been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts. 00:00 AMA Update for Dec. 16, 2022 00:50 What do you mean by "septo-demic" and "scrabble variants"? 02:25 How can people stay healthy heading into the holidays? 04:07 Why should parents vaccinate kids for COVID and flu? 05:22 How do we fix COVID vaccine inequities? 06:49 Why broaden the vaccine ecosystem? Would more vaccine manufacturers help prevent future pandemics? 08:42 Anti-vax and anti-science aggression has caused needless deaths of many Americans 09:54 Vaccines do not cause autism 11:02 How can doctors talk to anti-vaccination patients? Visit the AMA Update video page for more videos in this series: https://www.ama-assn.org/series/ama-u...