In Philadelphia, leaders reverse
course dropping the city's mask
mandate days after reinstating it.
Lots of back and forth to talk
about here when it comes to COVID,
let's bring in our medical expert,
Doctor David, winner from Baylor,
Scott and White Health.
It is good to see you doctor winner.
So first up mask or no mask.
I flew this weekend actually.
Just as recently as last night,
but so that's the question.
People are kind of going either way,
depending on how they feel.
Well, first let me emphasize Sonia that it's
been clearly shown through good scientific
studies that if you have a disease,
normality in the air transmitted to the air.
I'm talking about COVID influenza the
common cold, even allergies if they're out
there and you wear a well fitted mask,
you have much less chance of getting those
conditions now should you worry, one or not.
I got four reasons you might want to
consider it first, if your own health
is such that if you do get COVID,
you'd like to get seriously
ill or your loved ones.
Are very vulnerable to that.
You might want to get that so
you don't transmit it to them #2
if you're going on a big trip.
If you got predation coming up
or some big event like a wedding,
you might want to consider wearing
a mask before that so you don't
get sick and miss that number.
3 If you don't want to be harassed
or even ticketed in everywhere
you are required to wear a mask.
And #4,
if you're unvaccinated and go into
an area where there's a high risk
of transmission right now of COVID,
you might want to consider it ultimately
comes down to personal choice,
hopefully mixed in with little
common sense sound.
You
doctor Winner Maderna has a
new vaccine on the horizon.
If someone is eligible to receive a vaccine,
should they wait for this one?
Get what's available now.
Does it matter if it's the
booster of the original?
What do you say?
Yeah, the Moderna folks say they've
got one that they think is better
than the ones that's out right now.
We don't have hard data about that.
Pfizer got one on the way also,
so I think we could best say
there's no strong evidence to
wait and I would also point out
the vaccines currently available.
Work very well to prevent severe infection,
severe illnesses and folks that
get them right now.
So we got good things out there right now.
I wouldn't wait if you need one
doctor, winner and other health news,
new and unusual cases of
hepatitis are being reported.
What do we know about this?
Yeah, this just came out there.
9 cases in kids in Alabama ages one
through six were three of them actually
are going showing signs of liver failure,
so serious stuff this is
linked to adenovirus now.
There are other studies in England
and also other countries around the
globe that are saying the same thing.
This is new.
Adenoviruses usually cause the
common cold but I think the message
here if your child underage
10 they have a sore throat,
scratchy throat, a little congestion,
maybe a little fever, some aches.
And they started to get real sleepy,
real fatigued,
and get that yellow orange jaundice.
Then you need to call your
pediatrician right away.
And finally a new study from
the University of California
reports that a light workout,
even just for 10 minutes,
can improve your memory.
You know, I'm a big fan of this stuff,
but can you explain to us why and
how these two things are connected?
Yeah, that's very promising study was
published in the Academy of Sciences,
so it's a good well known journal.
Here's what they did.
They took folks, they exercise and
then did a high resolution MRI scan,
showed increased brain activity in a certain
part of the brain called the hippocampus,
the hippocampus where
memory lodges right there.
So the idea is that if this works well,
then it might be able to help us have
trouble remembering names or even better
still might slow or maybe stave off.
Alzheimer's dementia,
we don't know exactly how what
caused what the mechanism here,
but they say it's 10 minutes
of walking stationary bike,
yoga, Tai Chi,
little simple things we could do
to help stimulate that part of
our brain to help with memory.
OK, maybe that's why I
have such a good memory.
Doctor Winter, I'm just kidding.
Thank you for your time today.
Good to see you.