Ping Huang
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It's a podcast called Why Should I Trust You?
And it was started by scientists and journalists that identify more with traditional public health.
But they also saw that institutions lost trust during the pandemic when people felt failed or ignored by the rules and the health system.
Host Brinda Adhikari says people's deeply held beliefs are not easily swayed.
The podcast hosts conversations between traditional public health leaders and organizers in Maha or the Make America Healthy Again movement.
Adhikari says among their regular guests, they're starting to build some trust.
The salmonella outbreak spans 22 states from California to Florida and Texas to Maine.
People are getting serious cases of the bacterial illness after eating raw oysters and getting hospitalized at higher rates than usual in these types of outbreaks, according to the CDC.
Investigators are trying to see if there's a common source for these cases, which have been linked to a type of salmonella that's not frequently reported.
The cases stretched back for months but picked up in November.
Health officials advise cooking oysters with heat before eating them.
Hot sauce and lemon juice do not kill salmonella.
And they recommend that people with symptoms such as high fever or diarrhea over several days seek health care immediately.
Those can be signs of a serious salmonella infection.
The CDC's acting director, Jim O'Neill, has changed the agency's guidance to say that pregnant women who test negative for hepatitis B should talk with their providers first and consider delaying the initial dose of the vaccine.
This guidance is not supported by any new evidence of safety concerns.
Republican Senator Bill Cassidy had urged the CDC's leadership to reject the recommendations.
Cassidy is a doctor who's treated patients with liver disease from hepatitis B. He says ending the previous recommendation for all healthy newborns to get the vaccine makes it more likely for cases to increase.