1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: Welcome to Wellness on Mass. I'm doctor Nicole Safire and 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:06,920 Speaker 1: this is your weekly rundown. This week, the spotlight was 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 1: all on the Pentagon Athletic Center, where Defense Secretary Pete 4 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: Hegseth and Health Secretary Robert F. K Junior went head 5 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: to head in what they call the Pete and Bobby Challenge. 6 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:21,079 Speaker 1: The task one hundred pushups and fifty pull ups. Well 7 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:24,640 Speaker 1: Hegseth clocked in around five minutes and twenty five seconds. 8 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 1: Rfk Junior, at I want to say seventy one years old, 9 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 1: finished close behind him in just under six minutes. Impressive 10 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 1: by any standard, but the real star for me was 11 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:39,559 Speaker 1: marine sergeant who demolished the challenge in two minutes and 12 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:43,160 Speaker 1: forty three seconds. Well done, boys, you all did great. 13 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 1: We know you're strong, we know you have a good core, 14 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:48,960 Speaker 1: you have a good cardiovascular to reserve. This was part 15 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:52,920 Speaker 1: of the administrations Make America Healthy Again initiative, a campaign 16 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 1: to push physical fitness back into the national spotlight. And 17 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 1: I am all for it. And this comes on the 18 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 1: heels of President Trump reinstating the old Presidential Fitness Test 19 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: in schools and relaunching the President's Council on sports, fitness 20 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 1: and nutrition, and I fully support this. I will say 21 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 1: that maybe the one hundred push ups and fifty pull 22 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: ups are a little exclusionary in the sense that not 23 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: everyone's going to be able to do this. I think 24 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:22,679 Speaker 1: this is great for social media and bringing a spotlight 25 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 1: on physical fitness, but maybe we could I don't know, 26 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:29,039 Speaker 1: why don't we get to fifty pushups and ten pull ups. 27 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: That's a great place for people to start. Please, if 28 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 1: you are able to do even ten push ups and 29 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 1: five pull ups posted online, I think it is great 30 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: to get people involved. The second thing I want to 31 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:42,679 Speaker 1: talk about today is the fact that the American Academy 32 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:46,680 Speaker 1: of Pediatrics has broken with the CDC and offered their 33 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 1: own recommendations when it comes to the COVID vaccine in kids. 34 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: Why does this matter? Well, the AAP and the CDC 35 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 1: are usually in lockstep together. The CDC recently updated their 36 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 1: recommendations with the COVID vaccine and essentially said it should 37 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: be a conversation between the parents and the doctors with 38 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: personal choice, and they're really only recommending the vaccine in 39 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 1: kids who have higher risk or some comorbidities. When it 40 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 1: comes to the COVID vaccine. The American Academy of Pediatrics, however, 41 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:21,800 Speaker 1: are saying essentially all children should be vaccinated from COVID, 42 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 1: whether they're healthy or not. Now, for me, this breaks 43 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 1: with the science. In fact, the AAP is saying all kids, 44 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:33,800 Speaker 1: specifically those six months to two years old, need a 45 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 1: COVID vaccine, and the doctors on TV supporting this are 46 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 1: claiming it's because that's the highest risk age group. Well, 47 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 1: that's wrong. And what I did online was I essentially 48 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 1: I didn't call out the people who were misrepresenting the 49 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: data per se. I just decided to post all of 50 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 1: the data so people could check for themselves. The reality 51 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 1: is infants under six months are the kids that are 52 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: at highest risk of hospitalization, with prematurity and co infection 53 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 1: with RSV being their biggest risk factors, not the six 54 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:08,839 Speaker 1: months to two years as they're claiming. The reason being 55 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 1: the vaccine isn't approved for those under six months, so 56 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 1: therefore they're often left off the data sets and talking 57 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 1: points supporting the AAP. The AAP's own review of twenty 58 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 1: twenty two to twenty twenty four data in the six 59 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 1: months to two year old age group actually says the 60 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 1: risk of severe COVID was not associated with vaccination status. 61 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 1: Comorbidities like heart, lung, and neurological disease were in fact, 62 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: which is why the CDC recommends vaccinating this group or 63 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 1: at least having a conversation about it. But yet the 64 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 1: AAP says to vax all of the kids who haven't 65 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: had a COVID vax, despite the fact that there are 66 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: higher rates of vaccine side effects and also they're the 67 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 1: lowest risk from the virus themselves. For me, the risk 68 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 1: benefit and healthy kids, especially adolescent boys, is less than 69 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: ideal and it just doesn't support the recommendations of universally 70 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 1: vaccinating them. And now this is my opinion of being 71 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 1: a doctor but also a mom of three boys. Bottom line, 72 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: the narrative being push is not with the data show. 73 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 1: Parents deserve transparency and not recycle talking points. It should 74 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:19,840 Speaker 1: be up to the parents to decide. I only hope 75 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 1: that they have a pediatrician or a doctor that looks 76 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:25,720 Speaker 1: beyond the group think mentality to help guide them. Thanks 77 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:28,279 Speaker 1: for listening to Wellness on Mass on America's number one 78 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 1: podcast network. iHeart follow Wellness on MASS with doctor Nicole 79 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 1: Saffire and start listening on the free iHeartRadio app wherever 80 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 1: you get your podcasts, and we'll catch you next time.