COVID-19 Update

Descripción del Episodio

You’re listening: #JUNTOSRadio! Is the vaccine safe from #COVID19 for my 12 year old? What does President Biden’s order mean? There are still many questions about COVID-19 in our community. In this episode Dr. Mario Castro and Dr. Liset Olarte answer these questions. It is very important that we all get a vacun! 

Información de los invitados

Dr. Mario Castro
Dr. Castro joined the University of Kansas Medical Center in 2019 after 25 years at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where he oversaw the asthma and airway translational research unit, which conducted 30 clinical trials at a time. He is currently the Scientific Director of Rainbow’s Clinical and Translational Sciences Unit, the Chief of the Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Intensive Care and Sleep Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine, and is Vice President of Clinical and Translational Research at the University of Kansas Medical Center.

Dr. Liset Olarte
Dr. Liset C. Olarte Carhuaz is a pediatric infectious disease specialist in Kansas City, Missouri and is affiliated with Children’s Mercy Kansas City. He received his medical degree from Cayetano Heredia University and has practiced for 6 to 10 years. Dr. Olarte Carhuaz’s interest is in the clinical and molecular epidemiology of invasive pneumococcal infections and in pneumococcal colonization in high-risk hosts.