Welcome back.
ON VIEW POINT... today...
we address... global health concerns... ranging from MONKEYPOX... to COVID-19.
For more...
I have Professor Yoo Byung-wook ... from Soon Chun Hyang University.
Professor Yoo... it's good... to have you... here.
I also have Professor Peter CHIN-HONG... at the University of California...
San Francisco...
LIVE on the LINE.
Professor CHIN-HONG... it's been a while.
Welcome back.
1) Professor YOO...
South Korea has confirmed...
its first case of MONKEYPOX... in a South Korean man... who returned from Germany...
this past Tuesday.
How are authorities here... preparing... for... a possible BROADER outbreak?
2) Professor Chin-Hong... what can you... share...
with us... about the MONKEYPOX situation...
over in the U.S.?
3) Professor YOO... on the pandemic front...
authorities here... have decided to maintain...
the 7-day quarantine for COVID-19 patients.
What are your thoughts...
regarding this decision?
4) Professor Chin-Hong... what is the quarantine requirement... for COVID-19 patients... in
the U.S.?
5) Professor YOO...
some claim... public protection against COVID-19...
here in South Korea... will disappear... by this autumn.
Do you agree... and if so... what do you propose?
6) Professor Chin-Hong... staying with vaccinations...
toddlers...
as young as six months old... are now eligible for COVID-19 vaccines... in the U.S.
Do you believe...
this inoculation campaign is necessary...
as... we seek a new normal amid the pandemic?
7) Professor YOO...
what are your thoughts... on the need... for vaccination...
among toddlers?
8) Professor Chin-Hong... it has been said that COVID-19 cases... in the U.S... have
plateaued... with some 100-thousand daily infections.
What may be the reason...
behind this reality?
9) Moving forward...
Professor YOO... reports say... the flu season in the Southern Hemisphere appears
to be longer... and more severe.
How do you explain these reports?
10) Professor Chin-Hong... seasonal influenza infections in both Australia and South
Africa have been increasing.
What are your thoughts... on these findings?
11) Professor YOO... do you foresee... a similar scenario...
here in the Northern Hemisphere... this winter?
12) Professor Chin-Hong... what do you recommend... to ensure... public health...
as... we face a potential twindemic... later this year... then?
All right