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    Watch now   Exclusive: Gov. Shapiro Speaks Out on Measles Outbreak Shapiro joins Dr. Vin Gupta on Meidas Health as Pennsylvania confronts five measles-associated deaths and a growing fight with RFK Jr. over the federal response. MeidasTouch Network Oct 6 Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro joined Dr. Vin Gupta on Meidas Health as his state confronts a measles outbreak that has now surpassed a grim milestone: more than 1,000 confirmed cases. Pennsylvania health officials reported 1,004 confirmed measles cases across 39 counties as of October 5, along with 198 hospitalizations and five measles-associated deaths. Fewer than 1 percent of confirmed cases have been among vaccinated individuals. “Measles was eliminated. Eliminated back in the year 2000,” Shapiro told Gupta. “And now, 26 years later, we’re dealing with it coming roaring back.” Gupta recently traveled to Pennsylvania to speak directly with physicians treating measles patients, including people sick enough to r...

  Watch now   America Is Not Ready for the Next Pandemic — and a Leading Public Health Expert Explains Why In a wide-ranging conversation on Meidas Health, Dr. Vin Gupta and Rutgers School of Public Health Dean Perry Halkitis examine the crumbling state of America’s health security infrastructure MeidasTouch Network May 20 The recent hantavirus scare may not represent a pandemic-level threat, but to Dr. Perry Halkitis, Dean of the Rutgers School of Public Health and author of  Humanizing Public Health , it represents something more troubling: a window into just how vulnerable the United States has become to biological threats of any kind. In the latest episode of Meidas Health, host Dr. Vin Gupta sat down with Halkitis for a frank assessment of where America’s public health infrastructure stands and how far it has to go. A Weakened Foundation Halkitis identified two interlocking crises at the heart of America’s diminished pandemic preparedness. The first is structural: a ...

  Watch now   Meidas Health: Top Affordable Care Act Leader Debunks Trump’s Lies Leading healthcare policy expert, Jessica Schubel, debunks Trump’s plan to replace real insurance with empty promises in this new episode of Meidas Health MeidasTouch Network Dec 27 As healthcare policy once again becomes a flashpoint under Trump, the latest episode of Meidas Health offered a clear, fact-based counter to the disinformation emanating from the White House and its allies on Capitol Hill. In the episode, Meidas Health host Dr. Vin Gupta interviewed Jessica Schubel, one of the country’s most experienced healthcare policy leaders, at a moment of growing legislative and public health uncertainty. Schubel, who served in senior roles in both the Obama and Biden administrations and was most recently Special Assistant for Healthcare to former President Joe Biden, joined the show to unpack what she described as a looming crisis for millions of Americans who rely on Affordable Care Act marketp...