CDC Director and former NC Health Secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen on vaccines and flu season

瓜神app

Health

The word "Due" read from top-down and "South" left-right, with the U shared between them. Reminiscent of a compass.

Due South

CDC Director and former NC Health Secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen on vaccines and flu season

By Leoneda Inge,

Cole del Charco

Published October 24, 2024 at 10:00 AM EDT

Dr. Mandy Cohen in 瓜神app's Due South studio — North Carolina Department Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen speaks during a briefing on April 24, 2023.

COVID-19 is here to stay, and CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen is making recommendations about when to get your updated Covid and flu shots.

Prepare with us, and Dr. Cohen, before a predicted surge of these and other respiratory viruses this fall. Plus, Dr. Cohen reflects on her first year leading the CDC.

Guest

Dr. Mandy Cohen, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention

This conversation originally aired on September 23, 2024.

Tags

Leoneda Inge

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of 瓜神app's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at 瓜神app as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda鈥檚 work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital 瓜神app Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.

See stories by Leoneda Inge

Cole del Charco

Cole del Charco is an audio producer and writer based in Durham. He's made stories for public radio's All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Marketplace. Before joining Due South, he spent time as a freelance journalist, an education and daily news reporter for 瓜神app, and a podcast producer for WFAE in Charlotte.

See stories by Cole del Charco