He is also chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine in the MSU College of Human Medicine. Here, Brown provides the latest guidance on two viruses that are making news - COVID and Monkeypox, or Mpox.
Conversation Highlights:
(0:36) – Describe your role as university physician.
(1:59) – Where are we with COVID as summer turns to fall?
(3:54) – What variants are you seeing, and are up-to-date vaccines available?
(5:21) – What are COVID symptoms, and how do we know if we have it?
(6:24) – Are the COVID tests on the market reliable?
(7:24) – If you test positive, what should you do?
(9:34) – Dr. Brown highly encourages vaccines.
(12:24) – What’s the latest on Mpox?
(15:06) – Do you see Mpox coming to the United States?
(21:24) – “Infectious disease outbreaks are constantly occurring across the globe.”
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