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Speaker 1 (00:00):
John, Good morning, buddy, and welcome back to news Radio
eight forty whas.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm Scott Fitzgerald. The coffe just headed out the.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Door going to take care of some personal business that
they called the bullpen. It's John Shannon and of course
John Alden down there in Studio D and John. Good
to be back with you, sitting in for at least
a couple hours, my friend.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
How you doing well? Good?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
It's certainly different to be here and this time. Normally,
when I'm sitting in this chair, it always felt like
Saturday morning, and so now we're gonna do it up
on a wee day. But it's great that we have
such a team here where you know, when one of
us has something going on. You've had stuff going on,
I've had stuff going on. We all step in for
each other. It's been a lot of fun having Nick
along and having him as sort of the captain of
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the ship and being able to roll with it as
we open a new day and age here at News
Radio eight forty whs for sure and gonna be hot
and human today.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
As Nick's probably told you, I'm Matt Mellissa bitch.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Scattered shower and storms likely stay with news Radio eight
forty whs later on today, and you know, Johnny, you're
a big fan of this kind of weather.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I guess, oh my gosh, who I saw some take dude.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I saw some TikTok videos where people were like they
echo kind of what Nick was talking about earlier this week,
and that is I'm over you, summer.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I'm just over you.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So the question, the question that I post to you
and and everybody else listening, it seems like there's no
middle ground.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
We're one of two extremes.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
If you could have it either really hot or really cold,
like say back in the polar Vartex days, which would
you choose.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I can take the polar vortex more than these ninety
eight days.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It seems like the unnatural answer whenever you're living in
I guess this is technically the South, even though it's
also close to the Midwest. But it's just a lot
more tolerable to get It's easier to get yourself comfortable, right,
Like you can put on more layers if you need,
do that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I just I hate running the ACA.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I'd rather run the heat.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I can't deal with sweating all of the time and
being sticky in the summertime. So that that's kind of
my issue with this time of year.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
To your point, I was in my ride yesterday, and
it's no secret that my acy went out and seems
to go out in every car I own, and I
found myself just at lights.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I had nowhere to be.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I couldn't figure it out because I try to stay
chilling them in the car.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I had nowhere to be, the windows were down, I was.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
On my way home, the workday was done, and yet
I was still getting anxious in traffic. I'm like, why
is this light taking so long? Why are these people
driving so slow?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Because they weren't. It was me. I'm the one who
had the problem, and it was just because it was
they eat. To your point, and you're sitting there and
you're just sweating and so and I know a lot
of things weigh on people's minds with this as well, Like,
for example, I used to really stress over the air conditioner,
and I used to worry so much that the air
conditioner was going to fall out.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I mean, let's face it, every house has a thermostat
lease or a thermostat cop if you will.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Do you guys? Have that? Is it?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Do you do?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
You're like, guys, this is what we said it on
it's not moving. Yeah, And well here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
At night, I'm willing to go down a couple of degrees,
but in the morning you always take it back up
to where it's supposed to be.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Right right.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
So when you talk about that, who is it you
or your wife that likes it cooler or warmer?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Thankfully, my wife and I are both on the same page.
We like we both like having the house cooler gatually
in the summer cold. Of course everyone does, but we
we're the type of people who will save our energy
bill by making it cooler also in the winter. We
keep our house on sixty five during the wintertime and
keep it on seventy or on the summer. Sixty five
is pretty low, but we like it like that.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Though I was gonna say, you can pile on a hoodie,
you can pile on a blanket, and you can do
that kind of thing. And it is interesting when you
gauge people's responses to where they like the temperatures. We're
a seventy one household, seventy one year round, just doesn't move.
And I mentioned this before in the show. When my
daughter comes over, she's funky with the thermostat. I mean,
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it's all over the map and she'll turn it way
down and throw blanket sign.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
So I'm there to say no, leave it where it is.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
The thing is, air conditioners are so we've come to
rely on them, I guess, is what I'm trying to
say so much. For example, I was walking through Germantown
yesterday and I noticed when you walk through some of
the older homes, they have the rather large porches because
that's where people would go back in the day before
there was air conditioning, and they would sit on their
porches to cool off, to escape the heat.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
The problem is the genies out of the bottle now.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
And you know, there was a time where people didn't
live with the air conditioning we had, and if you
don't have air conditioning now. In fact, one of the
things I like when I go back home in late September,
for example.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
You know how, I'm not one of.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Those people that says, oh, you know, people here you
can't drive in winter.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
You know, I'm from Michigan, you should be able to.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I never will say that, ever, because if you go
to Michigan in the summertime, there's people that can't deal
with the heat up there.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Weird things happen.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
For example, they were closing schools when temperatures got into
the mid to low nineties.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Wow, even if they had running air conditioning.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Well, no, because some of them didn't have the air
conditioning or some couldn't keep up with it. But folks
up there don't deal with the heat like folks deal
with the hair, like folks here in Kentucky deal with it.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
He is like an hundred and three big deal. That's
what it does.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
So as we move forward, and I've seen some of
the recommendations that come out from some of the some
of the electric companies. They want you to keep your
heat on this, this, and this. You'll just be cognizant.
As long as you hydrate, you move. I still walk
every day. I get my labs in and Shelby Park,
or I take a walk. I was walking Germantown yesterday
and it was in the morning and I got back
and to use the term nick uses, I thought I
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just got out of a pool. But it's just one
of those things. You just got to find your limits
and know your limits as well. Hey, listen, we got
two more hours to go big. Thanks to Nick Coffee
for getting a started. He's gonna be out for a
couple hours. Back with you tomorrow. John Alden's with you.
John Shannon's with you when we come back. AI is
a big story right now. Could it be time to
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embrace it not only at home but in the classroom.
We'll talk about that and much more. Or you're listening
to Kentucky Anda's Morning News. I'm Scott fitzgild He's John Alden,
John Shannon coming up at the bottom of the hour.
We're back after this at NewsRadio eight forty whas and
Good Morning seven sixteen. Now on the seventeenth day of July.
I'm Scott Fitzgeral, Nick Coffee taking a couple hours to
(06:17):
take care of some personal business this morning. He'll be
back with us bright and early, starting five am. John
Alden down in the studio, d and John Shannon. As
you heard, with the latest overnight headlines. Looks like as
far as weather's concerned, WKY is Matt Melosevitch telling us
we should be okay to all about two three o'clock,
maybe four o'clock.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
This afternoon. It's going to be a hot one out there.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Temperature is going to feel like one hundred and five,
and then we could have some pretty gusty storms blow
through again right around later this afternoon. If you're trying
to plan out your Thursday on the way home coming up.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
We'll talk some more as we move on through the
morning here, but.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
One of the big stories for those that don't know,
I also host Kentucky Focus that air statewide and here
on news Radio eight forty WHS on Sunday mornings. We're
talking a little bit about artificial intelligence, and with generative
AI tools becoming more accessible, kids as young as six
are now experimenting with chatbox, deep fakes, autoimage generators. So
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the technology can be creative, engaging. It also answers critical
questions like what are kids seeing? What harm can be done?
But on the flip side of that, there's also a
positive side too as well. But before we get to that,
could AI in fact replace critical thinking? I had a
chance to talk with Angela Nekalambay. She's a literacy educator,
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AI literacy educator and a digital safety advocate, and we
talked about AI's effect on critical thinking. Something I know
educators are going to have to deal with as we
move forward into the new school year. Here's what she
had to say, and I'll turn her up there so
you can hear.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
That would be that there is a.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Bit of a decline in critical thinking. I think almost
half of gen Z have scored poorly on evaluating and
identifying critical short goals within AI technology, right, they're unable
to distinguish the fact. And also when you know, when
children use chat, GPT or some form of large language
model for their homework, but it might improve their task
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performance or their ability to get this work done, But
the key question reminds, you know, are they able to
perform at that level if AI isn't helping them? And
that's the key concern that people have. A lot of
parents and a lot of educators have expressed that, like, yes,
a lot of the increase in homework, assignments being turned
in fully complete and all of that, but it's are
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the children taking away the information, the insights and the
learning that they're supposed to I think an example that
I had from like a teacher I talked to, I
think had given their class an example to give an
example of remediation and this is like a media studies concept,
but some of the students had essays talking about removing
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chemicals from soil, which is a completely different, unrelated topic
to remediation, again like a media studies concept. And so
AI is still a relatively new technology, especially in this
use space, and so there's a huge chance of what
we call hallucinating where like the AI, you give the
AI question and ask it to help you, but it
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basically gives its own answer, its own responses, and if
you're just taking that at face value, as a child especially,
it's like, you know, you're already starting down the wrong path, right,
You're already misguiding yourself. You're doing the opposite of learning right.
And so it's very very important for parents and educators
to be aware of the short folds of this technology
and be ready to equip their like the children in
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their lives, with the skills that they.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Need to assess the.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Responses of these AI technologies for accuracy, but also to
find ways to teach the children to use AI not
just as a quick fix solution to getting their learning
that but also use it as a guiding partner, like
a thought partner. There's really cool technologies like kind of
kading is a really fantastic platform or their AI platform.
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Instead of just regurgitating a response for you, it shares
a list of guiding questions to help the students think
through how they could solve a math problem or think
through how they could go about writing an essay response
as opposed to just regurgitating the essay response. When parents
or educators sort of equip themselves with this knowledge of
the various tools available, they can hopefully use that to
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guide their kids away from the more easily accessible resources
that would just regurgitate a response and more towards learning
AI platforms that would guide the students thinking. Kind of
help build that critical thinking, a muscle that's so crucial,
especially for young and growing mind That.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Is Angela and Nkalamba and she's an AI literacy educator
in a Digital safety advocate. Now, that was only a
portion of our conversation. You can hear more in Kentucky
Focus and we talk about should it be part of
classrooms moving forward? How can parents sit down with their
kids and understand AI or It reminds me a lot
when Google search Engine first came out, people were like, Oh,
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this is crazy but we adapt and overcome. Basically, AI
doesn't need to be this monster in the room that
so many people fear. It can be a very helpful
tool if used right, like anything else.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
So we'll talk more.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
You can hear more of my interview with Angela, and
if you don't listen on Sunday mornings, we'll kick it
out via social media.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I'm Scott Fitzgerald. He's John Alden.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
John Shannon is standing by the news room, Nick Coffee
taking care of some personal business. He'll be back with
us tomorrow morning at five o'clock. We're back after this
on news Radio eight forty whas John Shannon, thank you
very much. Good morning, Welcome to July seventeenth. I'm Scott Fitzgerald.
He is John Alden. Nick is taking a quick bragg
(11:46):
He's taking care of some personal business. Nick Coffee'll be
back with us starting tomorrow morning at five o'clock. So
we'll take you all the way up to Tony and Dwight.
Tony Venetti going to join us around eight thirty. He
and I are going to talk a little bit about
the Catholic Education Foundation. Is schools get ready to ramp
up for sure? And some of the good work that
they're doing as well, and if you know somebody that
might need some financial help this year, they certainly the
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ready to do that without a doubt. And we'll also
here coming up in a little bit, we're going to
talk about measles. And you heard Nick talk earlier this
morning about the mayor and this rash of measles outbreak
that suddenly has approached us and we're having to deal
with that, and the mayor is going to speak a
little bit about that.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
City officials, by the way.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Warning anyone to visit a little clinic inside a Louisville
Kroger earlier this month may have been exposed to measles.
So we'll get the lowdown on that, and really why
it's more important now to listen to your medical provider
than it ever has been. And I know some people
go to social media for that, and you know that
might not be the best choice at least right now.
(12:46):
And John, you don't have to answer this if you
don't want to, but you obviously have a new daughter
and yes, are you.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Guys, did you guys get her vaccine? And again you
don't have to answer.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Yeah, she actually just got her first round of shots
so we.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Could go good, good, good good. It makes you feel
better as a parent, it does.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
It does, especially around large crowds of people, you never
know who might be carrying something.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
And what's funny, I hate to go back to the
COVID era because Nick and I have talked about this.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
That's just a period in time.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
I think most people just want to forget yes, and
there were all the misnomers over the vaccines, and you
didn't know what to believe what not to believe. And
in fact, I remember talking to Will Clark off the
air and we're like, do we get the vaccine?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Do we not?
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Do we wait?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
And I'm telling you now, man, and I never got
a flu vaccine growing up, and now I get the
flu vaccine and I get the COVID vaccine back to back,
and it just gives.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Me that peace of mind. You know, I know it's
not going to.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
One hundred percent prevent it, but it gives me that
peace of mind. And now when we see these vaccine
my kids were vaccinated, and you know, as we're going
to hear, you know throughout that vaccines have been around
for a long time, and if you historically look at it,
they've got.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
A pretty good track record for those.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
And now we're hearing all these cases that are popping
up that people do not or did not get the vaccine.
So we're gonna talk about that coming up here in
just about five minutes time as we get ready to
take a break, and John, I'm gonna tell you.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
A weird story. I like weird stories. Do you know that.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Watching products such as men's underwear can predict the recessions
in the economy?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Really, that's disturbing on every level.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Economists sometimes watch men's underwear sales to predict the changes.
The idea is that when money gets tight, men skip
buying new underwear since it's not something anyonlse can see.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
That.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Sure, that's kind of nasty.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
So I don't know that it's nasty, but I think
it's at least for me, and maybe it's people my
age as well. I think it's just one of those
like out of sight, out of mind, like if you
don't realize that you're in desperate need of underwear. I
don't think it's the first thing that people think, Oh,
I need to go get some more another package what
ever may be of those things.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
That's a great take the idea was first talked about
by former Fed Reserve chair Alan Greenspand and during recession,
people usually cut back on small personal items like this,
and that can indicate to sign that the economy is
slowing down. For example, underwear sales dropped during the two
thousand and eight recession, then went up again as the
economy got better. Even though it isn't a perfect system,
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it's a way experts really kind of spot trouble on
the horizon. And you know, to be honest with you,
I'm a guy. When I buy my socks, I can
wear those things. I'll wear them to like holes of me. So,
but I did recently find myself I have a favorite
pair that I like to wear, a brand and a
pair that are very comfortable, and there's only one store
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that really sells them here locally. And I did find
myself going to buy socks at a much more earlier
time than what I usually did, just because sometimes they
were just they get.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
They were missing that comfort feeling on the field, Yeah,
they were getting.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
And you know, I just bought a new brand of
Not to TMI too much, but I just bought a
new brand of underwear that it's a different style that
folks traditionally were.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Now that I was just an.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Old boxer kind of guy, you know what I mean,
And so I I kind of up my game a
little bit. But and now I'm extremely comfortable and I
can certainly see. But I was amazed that when I
went to go buy them, they only got three pairs
for the price that I paid. So I can see
what they're kind of talking about here. And the fact
is that they're so expensive. It's one of those things
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you're not going to buy if you don't have to. Yeah,
I wouldn't either, you know. But long story shorts, So
they're looking at underwear now, and that's a way to
find out if you know, how the economy is going
to do. And before we get out of here, what's
your glove compartment look like?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Man, it's I try to clean it up every once
in a while, but it's usually a chaotic mess in there.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
So is mine.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
In fact, I took my wife's car the other day
and I had to reach into the glovebox and I
mean it was dude, I could almost.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Not even open it.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
There were somebody, Well, here are the top signs that
you need to clean out your glove compartment, you found
papers from three insurance companies ago. All right, you still
have your bed, bath and beyond cubans in there. You
can't even begin to figure out where the car's manual is.
When was the last time you looked at your car's manual?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Maybe never? Yeah? Right?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
And then you have enough Starbucks napkins to start your
own franchise?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Do you keep napkins? And I do like to keep napkins.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
That's something I think a lot of people intentionally putting
their glove compartment.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah, see, and seeing I don't keep many napkins. But
what I do keep is the plastic bags. I use
them as garbage bags in my car. Okay, so I
have a ton of those, and pretty much it looks
like a collection of expired registration cards. Okay, I have
a ton of those, Dude. Every time my kids and
my wife go hey, do we have new insurance cards?
And I go out and look, and I have so
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many insurance cards. So even though even though the clerk's
office gives you that nice envelope when you renew your registration,
I have like nine thousand of those in my own compartment,
you know, So we'll see. So anyway, just some kind
of news you can use before we get a little
bit more serious. When we come back, we're gonna talk vaccines, big,
big story to a story today. I'm Scott Fitzgerald, He's
John Alden, He's John Sharnon in the newsroom. Nick Coffee
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taking care of some personal business. He'll be back with
this five am tomorrow. You're listening to news radio eight
forty whas and good morning, Welcome back. It is July seventeenth.
I'm Scott Fitzgerald, is John Alden, John Shannon with you.
Nick Coffee taking care of some personal business. He'll be
back with us tomorrow morning at five o'clock. Hot and human, scattered, showered,
and storm's likely highs in the mid nineties.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
According to wlkis Matt Meloso. Bitch.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Of course, the A story is setting things up as
city officials are warning that anyone who visited a little
clinic inside of Louisville Kroger earlier this month might have
been exposed to measles. Excuse me, Mayor Craig Greenberg confirming
the cities first measle case this year was a child
who traveled internationally to a country who's facing an outbreak
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the Kroger of concern is the little Kroger at forty
nine to fifteen Dixie Highway. That was on Wednesday, July ninth,
anywhere from nine to fifteen until noon. So that brings
me to my next point, and that is coming up
on Kentucky Focus this week. We heard already from one
of my guests. I'm the host of kent Focus. We
also have We're going to talk about the measles outbreak
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and what you can do and why you should pay
attention to your medical provider as opposed to social media.
Candice Demitteus is the vice president of policy and Advocacy
with the folks who deal with this, and she joined
me to talk a little bit about well what you
should be aware aware of. Here's part of that conversation.
This new poll has some strong bipartisan findings. What was
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your first reaction to the results.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Well, the first reaction was the and really encouraging is
that the vast majority of Americans, regardless of political affiliation,
and candidly, if you think about it, political affiliation shouldn't
make a difference to your health, right. But that's what
our polling found is that people really do understand and
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believe in the value of vaccines, the benefits greatly outweighing
the risk concerns about dropping vaccination rates unfortunately, and people
supporting mandates candidly as well for childhood vaccines in particular.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Candace Dimitaeus is joining us.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
She is the vice president of Policy and Advocacy for
the Partnership to Fight Infectious Disease and Cannas.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Can you break down what stood out.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
The most when it comes to Americans views on vaccine availability.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Sure, so, most of the people in the poll, almost
seventy five percent believe it should be a priority to
make sure that FDA approved vaccines are widely available for
all Americans, So that was really encouraging. And also the
vast majority of people do follow through on their physician's
advice and either get vaccinations for themselves or for family members,
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and that included eighty eight percent of those polled who
had children in the home under age eighteen. They follow
through on the recommendations that their healthcare provider gives them
about vaccinating their children.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
You know, your poll shows Americans do place most of
their trust in their healthcare providers, thank goodness, and not
what they read on the web. How critical is that
relationship when it comes to vaccine decision making.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
It's very, very important, and as you mentioned, people do
really lean in ask questions. Questions are important, but to
ask them of someone you trust, someone who knows you,
knows your family, knows your health status, and can make
those recommendations that will benefit you and your family. And
that's what our pulling showed that people do really follow
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the advice of their personal health care provider.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
You know Cannas Dimitaeas joins US now.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
She's the vice president of Policy and Advocacy for the
Partnership to Fight Infectious Disease.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Kennis, were you surprised.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
That trust in long term studies running higher than other
sources of information like the media and government officials because
we tend to hear that's tend of what we hear
a lot from.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Well, it's an important question. The challenge is, and you
mentioned social media and the barrage that it is people
do follow the advice of their physician. As we talked about,
they look for safety data and effectiveness data from these
long term studies. But when you think about how often
you hear that information compared to the disinformation and misinformation
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out there about vaccines.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
It can be a tough stuffield to climb, if you will,
because there's just such a barrage of it and coming
from sources that people feel like that they may find
trustworthy instead of again leaning in on their healthcare provider's advice.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
You know, the concern over declining childhood vaccination rates. I
mean it's ringing loudly. There's a lot of it out
there to your point, in social media, in other avenues.
What do you think is driving that concern and how
can we reverse that trend?
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Well, it's such an important question. One is that for
people to recognize that vaccination is the norm. There is
a ton of safety data effectiveness data these vaccines, particularly
the measles vaccine. I know Kentucky's experiencing an outbreak right now,
as are most to their states in the country. Candidly
that people understand that these vaccines, most of them have
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been around for decades and vaccines are one of the
most monitored and for safety data of any medicine that's
out there and available in the US because it's given
to healthy people generally speaking, and millions of people. So
it's important that we monitor safety. But the profile and
the record is clear these are safe and effective, and
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particularly for measles, it's ninety seven percent effective against getting measles,
So a really important vaccine to consider and to protect
yourselves and your families against measles and other infectious diseases.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
We're spending some quality time with Candace dimitieas she is
the vice president of Policy and Advocacy for the Partnership
to Fight Infectious Disease And Candace, what role do you
believe schools, pediatricians, even community groups play in helping parents
feel more informed and confident?
Speaker 5 (23:58):
Another great question It is in important to know again, schools,
school nurses, public health departments, your personal physician. All of
these sources are great resources for parents who have questions. Again,
questions are important. You know your children are precious and
you want to make sure you're making the smart decisions
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for them that will protect them and keep them healthy.
So leaning in there. They play such an important role.
And there's vast amount of information from your public health department,
from the Department of Health at the state level, your
local physician as well. The Academy of Pediatrics is another
great resource, so there is information available that is credible
(24:41):
and accurate and can answer a lot of the questions
that parents have.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Part of Kentucky Focus.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
And again, if you don't, if you're not up on
Sunday morning at eight o'clock, we'll go ahead and kick
that out via our social media channels.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Here at news Radio eight forty WHS.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I'm Scott Fvinzgeraldis, John Alden, John Shannon standing by. We're
going to look at sports and Nick Coff you're going
to be back with us, just taking care of some
business this morning. He'll be back at five o'clock tomorrow morning.
We're back after this at news Radio eight forty WHS.
John, Good morning, buddy, and welcome back to news Radio
eight forty whas.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm Scott Fitzgerald. The coffe just headed out the.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Door going to take care of some personal business that
they called the bullpen. It's John Shannon and of course
John Alden down there in Studio D and John. Good
to be back with you, sitting in for at least
a couple hours, my friend.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
How you doing well? Good?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
It's certainly different to be here and this time. Normally,
when I'm sitting in this chair, it always felt like
Saturday morning, and so now we're gonna do it up
on a wee day. But it's great that we have
such a team here where you know, when one of
us has something going on. You've had stuff going on,
I've had stuff going on. We all step in for
each other. It's been a lot of fun having Nick
along and having him as sort of the captain of
(00:43):
the ship and being able to roll with it as
we open a new day and age here at News
Radio eight forty whs for sure and gonna be hot
and human today.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
As Nick's probably told you, I'm Matt Mellissa bitch.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Scattered shower and storms likely stay with news Radio eight
forty whs later on today, and you know, Johnny, you're
a big fan of this kind of weather.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I guess, oh my gosh, who I saw some take dude.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I saw some TikTok videos where people were like they
echo kind of what Nick was talking about earlier this week,
and that is I'm over you, summer.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I'm just over you.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So the question, the question that I post to you
and and everybody else listening, it seems like there's no
middle ground.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
We're one of two extremes.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
If you could have it either really hot or really cold,
like say back in the polar Vartex days, which would
you choose.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I can take the polar vortex more than these ninety
eight days.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It seems like the unnatural answer whenever you're living in
I guess this is technically the South, even though it's
also close to the Midwest. But it's just a lot
more tolerable to get It's easier to get yourself comfortable, right,
Like you can put on more layers if you need,
do that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I just I hate running the ACA.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I'd rather run the heat.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I can't deal with sweating all of the time and
being sticky in the summertime. So that that's kind of
my issue with this time of year.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
To your point, I was in my ride yesterday, and
it's no secret that my acy went out and seems
to go out in every car I own, and I
found myself just at lights.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I had nowhere to be.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I couldn't figure it out because I try to stay
chilling them in the car.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I had nowhere to be, the windows were down, I was.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
On my way home, the workday was done, and yet
I was still getting anxious in traffic. I'm like, why
is this light taking so long? Why are these people
driving so slow?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Because they weren't. It was me. I'm the one who
had the problem, and it was just because it was
they eat. To your point, and you're sitting there and
you're just sweating and so and I know a lot
of things weigh on people's minds with this as well, Like,
for example, I used to really stress over the air conditioner,
and I used to worry so much that the air
conditioner was going to fall out.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I mean, let's face it, every house has a thermostat
lease or a thermostat cop if you will.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Do you guys? Have that? Is it?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Do you do?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
You're like, guys, this is what we said it on
it's not moving. Yeah, And well here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
At night, I'm willing to go down a couple of degrees,
but in the morning you always take it back up
to where it's supposed to be.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Right right.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
So when you talk about that, who is it you
or your wife that likes it cooler or warmer?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Thankfully, my wife and I are both on the same page.
We like we both like having the house cooler gatually
in the summer cold. Of course everyone does, but we
we're the type of people who will save our energy
bill by making it cooler also in the winter. We
keep our house on sixty five during the wintertime and
keep it on seventy or on the summer. Sixty five
is pretty low, but we like it like that.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Though I was gonna say, you can pile on a hoodie,
you can pile on a blanket, and you can do
that kind of thing. And it is interesting when you
gauge people's responses to where they like the temperatures. We're
a seventy one household, seventy one year round, just doesn't move.
And I mentioned this before in the show. When my
daughter comes over, she's funky with the thermostat. I mean,
(03:57):
it's all over the map and she'll turn it way
down and throw blanket sign.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
So I'm there to say no, leave it where it is.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
The thing is, air conditioners are so we've come to
rely on them, I guess, is what I'm trying to
say so much. For example, I was walking through Germantown
yesterday and I noticed when you walk through some of
the older homes, they have the rather large porches because
that's where people would go back in the day before
there was air conditioning, and they would sit on their
porches to cool off, to escape the heat.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
The problem is the genies out of the bottle now.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
And you know, there was a time where people didn't
live with the air conditioning we had, and if you
don't have air conditioning now. In fact, one of the
things I like when I go back home in late September,
for example.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
You know how, I'm not one of.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Those people that says, oh, you know, people here you
can't drive in winter.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
You know, I'm from Michigan, you should be able to.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I never will say that, ever, because if you go
to Michigan in the summertime, there's people that can't deal
with the heat up there.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Weird things happen.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
For example, they were closing schools when temperatures got into
the mid to low nineties.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Wow, even if they had running air conditioning.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Well, no, because some of them didn't have the air
conditioning or some couldn't keep up with it. But folks
up there don't deal with the heat like folks deal
with the hair, like folks here in Kentucky deal with it.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
He is like an hundred and three big deal. That's
what it does.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
So as we move forward, and I've seen some of
the recommendations that come out from some of the some
of the electric companies. They want you to keep your
heat on this, this, and this. You'll just be cognizant.
As long as you hydrate, you move. I still walk
every day. I get my labs in and Shelby Park,
or I take a walk. I was walking Germantown yesterday
and it was in the morning and I got back
and to use the term nick uses, I thought I
(05:35):
just got out of a pool. But it's just one
of those things. You just got to find your limits
and know your limits as well. Hey, listen, we got
two more hours to go big. Thanks to Nick Coffee
for getting a started. He's gonna be out for a
couple hours. Back with you tomorrow. John Alden's with you.
John Shannon's with you when we come back. AI is
a big story right now. Could it be time to
(05:55):
embrace it not only at home but in the classroom.
We'll talk about that and much more. Or you're listening
to Kentucky Anda's Morning News. I'm Scott fitzgild He's John Alden,
John Shannon coming up at the bottom of the hour.
We're back after this at NewsRadio eight forty whas and
Good Morning seven sixteen. Now on the seventeenth day of July.
I'm Scott Fitzgeral, Nick Coffee taking a couple hours to
(06:17):
take care of some personal business this morning. He'll be
back with us bright and early, starting five am. John
Alden down in the studio, d and John Shannon. As
you heard, with the latest overnight headlines. Looks like as
far as weather's concerned, WKY is Matt Melosevitch telling us
we should be okay to all about two three o'clock,
maybe four o'clock.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
This afternoon. It's going to be a hot one out there.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Temperature is going to feel like one hundred and five,
and then we could have some pretty gusty storms blow
through again right around later this afternoon. If you're trying
to plan out your Thursday on the way home coming up.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
We'll talk some more as we move on through the
morning here, but.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
One of the big stories for those that don't know,
I also host Kentucky Focus that air statewide and here
on news Radio eight forty WHS on Sunday mornings. We're
talking a little bit about artificial intelligence, and with generative
AI tools becoming more accessible, kids as young as six
are now experimenting with chatbox, deep fakes, autoimage generators. So
(07:14):
the technology can be creative, engaging. It also answers critical
questions like what are kids seeing? What harm can be done?
But on the flip side of that, there's also a
positive side too as well. But before we get to that,
could AI in fact replace critical thinking? I had a
chance to talk with Angela Nekalambay. She's a literacy educator,
(07:36):
AI literacy educator and a digital safety advocate, and we
talked about AI's effect on critical thinking. Something I know
educators are going to have to deal with as we
move forward into the new school year. Here's what she
had to say, and I'll turn her up there so
you can hear.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
That would be that there is a.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Bit of a decline in critical thinking. I think almost
half of gen Z have scored poorly on evaluating and
identifying critical short goals within AI technology, right, they're unable
to distinguish the fact. And also when you know, when
children use chat, GPT or some form of large language
model for their homework, but it might improve their task
(08:13):
performance or their ability to get this work done, But
the key question reminds, you know, are they able to
perform at that level if AI isn't helping them? And
that's the key concern that people have. A lot of
parents and a lot of educators have expressed that, like, yes,
a lot of the increase in homework, assignments being turned
in fully complete and all of that, but it's are
(08:33):
the children taking away the information, the insights and the
learning that they're supposed to I think an example that
I had from like a teacher I talked to, I
think had given their class an example to give an
example of remediation and this is like a media studies concept,
but some of the students had essays talking about removing
(08:54):
chemicals from soil, which is a completely different, unrelated topic
to remediation, again like a media studies concept. And so
AI is still a relatively new technology, especially in this
use space, and so there's a huge chance of what
we call hallucinating where like the AI, you give the
AI question and ask it to help you, but it
(09:15):
basically gives its own answer, its own responses, and if
you're just taking that at face value, as a child especially,
it's like, you know, you're already starting down the wrong path, right,
You're already misguiding yourself. You're doing the opposite of learning right.
And so it's very very important for parents and educators
to be aware of the short folds of this technology
and be ready to equip their like the children in
(09:38):
their lives, with the skills that they.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Need to assess the.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Responses of these AI technologies for accuracy, but also to
find ways to teach the children to use AI not
just as a quick fix solution to getting their learning
that but also use it as a guiding partner, like
a thought partner. There's really cool technologies like kind of
kading is a really fantastic platform or their AI platform.
(10:03):
Instead of just regurgitating a response for you, it shares
a list of guiding questions to help the students think
through how they could solve a math problem or think
through how they could go about writing an essay response
as opposed to just regurgitating the essay response. When parents
or educators sort of equip themselves with this knowledge of
the various tools available, they can hopefully use that to
(10:26):
guide their kids away from the more easily accessible resources
that would just regurgitate a response and more towards learning
AI platforms that would guide the students thinking. Kind of
help build that critical thinking, a muscle that's so crucial,
especially for young and growing mind That.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Is Angela and Nkalamba and she's an AI literacy educator
in a Digital safety advocate. Now, that was only a
portion of our conversation. You can hear more in Kentucky
Focus and we talk about should it be part of
classrooms moving forward? How can parents sit down with their
kids and understand AI or It reminds me a lot
when Google search Engine first came out, people were like, Oh,
(11:04):
this is crazy but we adapt and overcome. Basically, AI
doesn't need to be this monster in the room that
so many people fear. It can be a very helpful
tool if used right, like anything else.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
So we'll talk more.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
You can hear more of my interview with Angela, and
if you don't listen on Sunday mornings, we'll kick it
out via social media.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I'm Scott Fitzgerald. He's John Alden.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
John Shannon is standing by the news room, Nick Coffee
taking care of some personal business. He'll be back with
us tomorrow morning at five o'clock. We're back after this
on news Radio eight forty whas John Shannon, thank you
very much. Good morning, Welcome to July seventeenth. I'm Scott Fitzgerald.
He is John Alden. Nick is taking a quick bragg
(11:46):
He's taking care of some personal business. Nick Coffee'll be
back with us starting tomorrow morning at five o'clock. So
we'll take you all the way up to Tony and Dwight.
Tony Venetti going to join us around eight thirty. He
and I are going to talk a little bit about
the Catholic Education Foundation. Is schools get ready to ramp
up for sure? And some of the good work that
they're doing as well, and if you know somebody that
might need some financial help this year, they certainly the
(12:06):
ready to do that without a doubt. And we'll also
here coming up in a little bit, we're going to
talk about measles. And you heard Nick talk earlier this
morning about the mayor and this rash of measles outbreak
that suddenly has approached us and we're having to deal
with that, and the mayor is going to speak a
little bit about that.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
City officials, by the way.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Warning anyone to visit a little clinic inside a Louisville
Kroger earlier this month may have been exposed to measles.
So we'll get the lowdown on that, and really why
it's more important now to listen to your medical provider
than it ever has been. And I know some people
go to social media for that, and you know that
might not be the best choice at least right now.
(12:46):
And John, you don't have to answer this if you
don't want to, but you obviously have a new daughter
and yes, are you.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Guys, did you guys get her vaccine? And again you
don't have to answer.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Yeah, she actually just got her first round of shots
so we.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Could go good, good, good good. It makes you feel
better as a parent, it does.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
It does, especially around large crowds of people, you never
know who might be carrying something.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
And what's funny, I hate to go back to the
COVID era because Nick and I have talked about this.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
That's just a period in time.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
I think most people just want to forget yes, and
there were all the misnomers over the vaccines, and you
didn't know what to believe what not to believe. And
in fact, I remember talking to Will Clark off the
air and we're like, do we get the vaccine?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Do we not?
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Do we wait?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
And I'm telling you now, man, and I never got
a flu vaccine growing up, and now I get the
flu vaccine and I get the COVID vaccine back to back,
and it just gives.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Me that peace of mind. You know, I know it's
not going to.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
One hundred percent prevent it, but it gives me that
peace of mind. And now when we see these vaccine
my kids were vaccinated, and you know, as we're going
to hear, you know throughout that vaccines have been around
for a long time, and if you historically look at it,
they've got.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
A pretty good track record for those.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
And now we're hearing all these cases that are popping
up that people do not or did not get the vaccine.
So we're gonna talk about that coming up here in
just about five minutes time as we get ready to
take a break, and John, I'm gonna tell you.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
A weird story. I like weird stories. Do you know that.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Watching products such as men's underwear can predict the recessions
in the economy?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Really, that's disturbing on every level.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Economists sometimes watch men's underwear sales to predict the changes.
The idea is that when money gets tight, men skip
buying new underwear since it's not something anyonlse can see.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
That.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Sure, that's kind of nasty.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
So I don't know that it's nasty, but I think
it's at least for me, and maybe it's people my
age as well. I think it's just one of those
like out of sight, out of mind, like if you
don't realize that you're in desperate need of underwear. I
don't think it's the first thing that people think, Oh,
I need to go get some more another package what
ever may be of those things.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
That's a great take the idea was first talked about
by former Fed Reserve chair Alan Greenspand and during recession,
people usually cut back on small personal items like this,
and that can indicate to sign that the economy is
slowing down. For example, underwear sales dropped during the two
thousand and eight recession, then went up again as the
economy got better. Even though it isn't a perfect system,
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it's a way experts really kind of spot trouble on
the horizon. And you know, to be honest with you,
I'm a guy. When I buy my socks, I can
wear those things. I'll wear them to like holes of me. So,
but I did recently find myself I have a favorite
pair that I like to wear, a brand and a
pair that are very comfortable, and there's only one store
(15:32):
that really sells them here locally. And I did find
myself going to buy socks at a much more earlier
time than what I usually did, just because sometimes they
were just they get.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
They were missing that comfort feeling on the field, Yeah,
they were getting.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
And you know, I just bought a new brand of
Not to TMI too much, but I just bought a
new brand of underwear that it's a different style that
folks traditionally were.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Now that I was just an.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Old boxer kind of guy, you know what I mean,
And so I I kind of up my game a
little bit. But and now I'm extremely comfortable and I
can certainly see. But I was amazed that when I
went to go buy them, they only got three pairs
for the price that I paid. So I can see
what they're kind of talking about here. And the fact
is that they're so expensive. It's one of those things
(16:16):
you're not going to buy if you don't have to. Yeah,
I wouldn't either, you know. But long story shorts, So
they're looking at underwear now, and that's a way to
find out if you know, how the economy is going
to do. And before we get out of here, what's
your glove compartment look like?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Man, it's I try to clean it up every once
in a while, but it's usually a chaotic mess in there.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
So is mine.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
In fact, I took my wife's car the other day
and I had to reach into the glovebox and I
mean it was dude, I could almost.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Not even open it.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
There were somebody, Well, here are the top signs that
you need to clean out your glove compartment, you found
papers from three insurance companies ago. All right, you still
have your bed, bath and beyond cubans in there. You
can't even begin to figure out where the car's manual is.
When was the last time you looked at your car's manual?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Maybe never? Yeah? Right?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
And then you have enough Starbucks napkins to start your
own franchise?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Do you keep napkins? And I do like to keep napkins.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
That's something I think a lot of people intentionally putting
their glove compartment.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah, see, and seeing I don't keep many napkins. But
what I do keep is the plastic bags. I use
them as garbage bags in my car. Okay, so I
have a ton of those, and pretty much it looks
like a collection of expired registration cards. Okay, I have
a ton of those, Dude. Every time my kids and
my wife go hey, do we have new insurance cards?
And I go out and look, and I have so
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many insurance cards. So even though even though the clerk's
office gives you that nice envelope when you renew your registration,
I have like nine thousand of those in my own compartment,
you know, So we'll see. So anyway, just some kind
of news you can use before we get a little
bit more serious. When we come back, we're gonna talk vaccines, big,
big story to a story today. I'm Scott Fitzgerald, He's
John Alden, He's John Sharnon in the newsroom. Nick Coffee
(17:57):
taking care of some personal business. He'll be back with
this five am tomorrow. You're listening to news radio eight
forty whas and good morning, Welcome back. It is July seventeenth.
I'm Scott Fitzgerald, is John Alden, John Shannon with you.
Nick Coffee taking care of some personal business. He'll be
back with us tomorrow morning at five o'clock. Hot and human, scattered, showered,
and storm's likely highs in the mid nineties.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
According to wlkis Matt Meloso. Bitch.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Of course, the A story is setting things up as
city officials are warning that anyone who visited a little
clinic inside of Louisville Kroger earlier this month might have
been exposed to measles. Excuse me, Mayor Craig Greenberg confirming
the cities first measle case this year was a child
who traveled internationally to a country who's facing an outbreak
(18:43):
the Kroger of concern is the little Kroger at forty
nine to fifteen Dixie Highway. That was on Wednesday, July ninth,
anywhere from nine to fifteen until noon. So that brings
me to my next point, and that is coming up
on Kentucky Focus this week. We heard already from one
of my guests. I'm the host of kent Focus. We
also have We're going to talk about the measles outbreak
(19:04):
and what you can do and why you should pay
attention to your medical provider as opposed to social media.
Candice Demitteus is the vice president of policy and Advocacy
with the folks who deal with this, and she joined
me to talk a little bit about well what you
should be aware aware of. Here's part of that conversation.
This new poll has some strong bipartisan findings. What was
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your first reaction to the results.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Well, the first reaction was the and really encouraging is
that the vast majority of Americans, regardless of political affiliation,
and candidly, if you think about it, political affiliation shouldn't
make a difference to your health, right. But that's what
our polling found is that people really do understand and
(19:53):
believe in the value of vaccines, the benefits greatly outweighing
the risk concerns about dropping vaccination rates unfortunately, and people
supporting mandates candidly as well for childhood vaccines in particular.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Candace Dimitaeus is joining us.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
She is the vice president of Policy and Advocacy for
the Partnership to Fight Infectious Disease and Cannas.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Can you break down what stood out.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
The most when it comes to Americans views on vaccine availability.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Sure, so, most of the people in the poll, almost
seventy five percent believe it should be a priority to
make sure that FDA approved vaccines are widely available for
all Americans, So that was really encouraging. And also the
vast majority of people do follow through on their physician's
advice and either get vaccinations for themselves or for family members,
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and that included eighty eight percent of those polled who
had children in the home under age eighteen. They follow
through on the recommendations that their healthcare provider gives them
about vaccinating their children.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
You know, your poll shows Americans do place most of
their trust in their healthcare providers, thank goodness, and not
what they read on the web. How critical is that
relationship when it comes to vaccine decision making.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
It's very, very important, and as you mentioned, people do
really lean in ask questions. Questions are important, but to
ask them of someone you trust, someone who knows you,
knows your family, knows your health status, and can make
those recommendations that will benefit you and your family. And
that's what our pulling showed that people do really follow
(21:29):
the advice of their personal health care provider.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
You know Cannas Dimitaeas joins US now.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
She's the vice president of Policy and Advocacy for the
Partnership to Fight Infectious Disease.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Kennis, were you surprised.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
That trust in long term studies running higher than other
sources of information like the media and government officials because
we tend to hear that's tend of what we hear
a lot from.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Well, it's an important question. The challenge is, and you
mentioned social media and the barrage that it is people
do follow the advice of their physician. As we talked about,
they look for safety data and effectiveness data from these
long term studies. But when you think about how often
you hear that information compared to the disinformation and misinformation
(22:11):
out there about vaccines.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
It can be a tough stuffield to climb, if you will,
because there's just such a barrage of it and coming
from sources that people feel like that they may find
trustworthy instead of again leaning in on their healthcare provider's advice.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
You know, the concern over declining childhood vaccination rates. I
mean it's ringing loudly. There's a lot of it out
there to your point, in social media, in other avenues.
What do you think is driving that concern and how
can we reverse that trend?
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Well, it's such an important question. One is that for
people to recognize that vaccination is the norm. There is
a ton of safety data effectiveness data these vaccines, particularly
the measles vaccine. I know Kentucky's experiencing an outbreak right now,
as are most to their states in the country. Candidly
that people understand that these vaccines, most of them have
(23:06):
been around for decades and vaccines are one of the
most monitored and for safety data of any medicine that's
out there and available in the US because it's given
to healthy people generally speaking, and millions of people. So
it's important that we monitor safety. But the profile and
the record is clear these are safe and effective, and
(23:29):
particularly for measles, it's ninety seven percent effective against getting measles,
So a really important vaccine to consider and to protect
yourselves and your families against measles and other infectious diseases.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
We're spending some quality time with Candace dimitieas she is
the vice president of Policy and Advocacy for the Partnership
to Fight Infectious Disease And Candace, what role do you
believe schools, pediatricians, even community groups play in helping parents
feel more informed and confident?
Speaker 5 (23:58):
Another great question It is in important to know again, schools,
school nurses, public health departments, your personal physician. All of
these sources are great resources for parents who have questions. Again,
questions are important. You know your children are precious and
you want to make sure you're making the smart decisions
(24:19):
for them that will protect them and keep them healthy.
So leaning in there. They play such an important role.
And there's vast amount of information from your public health department,
from the Department of Health at the state level, your
local physician as well. The Academy of Pediatrics is another
great resource, so there is information available that is credible
(24:41):
and accurate and can answer a lot of the questions
that parents have.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Part of Kentucky Focus.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
And again, if you don't, if you're not up on
Sunday morning at eight o'clock, we'll go ahead and kick
that out via our social media channels.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Here at news Radio eight forty WHS.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I'm Scott Fvinzgeraldis, John Alden, John Shannon standing by. We're
going to look at sports and Nick Coff you're going
to be back with us, just taking care of some
business this morning. He'll be back at five o'clock tomorrow morning.
We're back after this at news Radio eight forty WHS.
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