Delta is different. We’ll hear more about the risk to immune compromised patients, plus when and how to get a booster vaccine. We’ll hear from a bone marrow transplant patient and Dr. Joseph McGuirk, Division Director, Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics and Medical Director, Blood and Marrow Transplant.

Our guests are the heads of the Kansas Hospital Association and Missouri Hospital Association with how hospitals are handling the surge in COVID cases, the staffing issues popping up and the concerns if cases continue to climb.

It's Follow Up Friday so we will get to your questions from the week. And yesterday, CDC vaccination guidelines changed to include pregnant and breastfeeding women, as they are more likely to get severely ill with COVID-19. We hear from Dr. Kevin Ault, OBGYN and member of the federal advisory panel for COVID-19.

Dr. Anne Wishna, an ophthalmologist at the health system, discussed eye health during the pandemic. Also Dr. Greg Nawalanic, clinical psychologist, offered advice for coping with back to school anxiety, especially about masks.

Dr. Rex Archer, former director of the Kansas City, Missouri Health Department, joined with an unsettling prediction about September and COVID in the Metro area. Also, Juliann Van Liew with the Unified Government Public Health Department on the status of COVID in Wyandotte County.

Medical Director of Inpatient Pediatrics Dr. Michael Lewis and Children's Mercy's Dr. Jennifer Schuster talk about COVID and the spike in RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) cases.

Follow-Up Friday featuring Dr. Dana Hawkinson and Dr. Steve Stites. They answer COVID questions heading into the weekend.

Dr. Mitchell Douglass, Medical Director of the Marillac Campus, and psychologist Dr. Danielle Johnson talk about the mental impact of kids returning to school during this era of COVID. 

Our experts look at breakthrough infections. We hear from a local doctor who is fully vaccinated yet tested positive for COVID-19.

We're looking back on the early days of COVID-19. We hear from Dr. Damien Stevens who volunteered in New York City at the height of the pandemic. He joins Chief Medical Officer Dr. Steve Stites to compare what he experienced then to what we're seeing now here in Missouri and Kansas.