TWiV 874: COVID-19 clinical update #105 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In COVID-19 clinical update #105, Daniel Griffin discusses changes in brain structure after infection, dementia in patients with pneumonia, Paxlovid in children, mask effectiveness in schools, host factors and severe disease, post-acute symptoms, and the mission of CEPI. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Infection and changes in brain structure (Nature) Dementia among pneumonia survivors (Open Forum Inf Dis) Narrative dynamics around COVID-19 vaccines (FSI) Children and COVID (AAP) Paxlovid in pediatric patients (Pfizer) Mask effectiveness i...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - March 12, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Solving retention to support workforce recovery
The covid-19 pandemic has stretched healthcare staff like never before. As part of the 2022 Nuffield Trust summit, The BMJ hosted a roundtable discussion looking at why workers leave the NHS and how staff wellbeing and retention can be improved.
Joining us to discuss are:
Kamran Abbasi, editor in chief, The BMJ
Billy Palmer, senior fellow, Nuffield Trust
Lucina Rolewicz, researcher, Nuffield Trust
Mark Britnell, global healthcare expert and senior partner, KPMG International
Neil Greenburg, consultant occupational and forensic psychiatris t, King's College London's centre for military health research
Rose Penfold, Nation...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 11, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Solving retention to support workforce recovery
The covid-19 pandemic has stretched healthcare staff like never before. As part of the 2022 Nuffield Trust summit, The BMJ hosted a roundtable discussion looking at why workers leave the NHS and how staff wellbeing and retention can be improved.
Joining us to discuss are:
Kamran Abbasi, editor in chief, The BMJ
Billy Palmer, senior fellow, Nuffield Trust
Lucina Rolewicz, researcher, Nuffield Trust
Mark Britnell, global healthcare expert and senior partner, KPMG International
Neil Greenburg, consultant occupational and forensic psychiatrist, King's College London's centre for military health research
Rose Penfold, Nationa...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 11, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
SCCM Pod-453 Extracorporeal Blood Purification
Because COVID-19 can create a status of systemic inflammation, which can affect multiple organs, including the kidneys, the adjuvant therapy of blood purification has gained some recognition. Host Pamela Peeke is joined by Javier Neyra to discuss clinical cases and the use of extracorporeal blood purification in COVID-19 patients. (Source: SCCM PodCast - iCritical Care)
Source: SCCM PodCast - iCritical Care - March 10, 2022 Category: Intensive Care Authors: The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Tags: Medicine Source Type: podcasts
Monitoring wastewater for SARS-CoV-2, and looking back at the biggest questions about the pandemic
On this week’s show: We have highlights from a special COVID-19 retrospective issue on lessons learned after 2 years of the pandemic
First up, Contributing Correspondent Gretchen Vogel joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss what scientists have learned from scanning sewage for COVID-19 RNA. And now that so many wastewater monitoring stations are in place—what else can we do with them?
Next, we have researcher Katia Koelle, an associate professor of biology at Emory University. She wrote a review on the evolving epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2: What have been the most important questions from epidemiologists over...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - March 10, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Monitoring wastewater for SARS-CoV-2, and looking back at the biggest questions about the pandemic
On this week’s show: We have highlights from a special COVID-19 retrospective issue on lessons learned after 2 years of the pandemic
First up, Contributing Correspondent Gretchen Vogel joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss what scientists have learned from scanning sewage for COVID-19 RNA. And now that so many wastewater monitoring stations are in place—what else can we do with them?
Next, we have researcher Katia Koelle, an associate professor of biology at Emory University. She wrote a review on the evolving epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2: What have been the most important questions from epidemiologists over the course ...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - March 10, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Rural healthcare in a pandemic
In this episode of the podcast we ’re going to be talking about rural healthcare - and specifically the difficulties that distance, demographics, and funding have introduced into the world’s covid-19 response.
Rural regions made vulnerable by limited healthcare infrastructure, lower rates of vaccination, and opposition to gover nment policies are the new frontlines in the pandemic, but support systems have not adjusted to the growing rural needs for health education, testing, vaccination, and treatment.Michael Forster Rothbart, Kata Kar áth, and Lungelo Ndhlovu report from the US, Ecuador, and Zimbabwe (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 7, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Rural healthcare in a pandemic
In this episode of the podcast we’re going to be talking about rural healthcare - and specifically the difficulties that distance, demographics, and funding have introduced into the world’s covid-19 response.
Rural regions made vulnerable by limited healthcare infrastructure, lower rates of vaccination, and opposition to government policies are the new frontlines in the pandemic, but support systems have not adjusted to the growing rural needs for health education, testing, vaccination, and treatment.
Michael Forster Rothbart, Kata Karáth, and Lungelo Ndhlovu report from the US, Ecuador, and Zimbabwe (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 7, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 872: COVID-19 clinical update #104 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In COVID-19 clinical update #104, Daniel Griffin reviews effectiveness of mRNA vaccines among children, number of children affected by disease, accuracy of rapid antigen tests, CDC guidance for prevention strategies, monoclonal antibody effectiveness, predicting progression to severe respiratory failure from pneumonia, risk of long COVID after two vaccine doses, and peripheral neuropathy in long COVID. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Vaccine effectiveness 5-11 year olds (medRxiv) Vaccine effectiveness vs ED and UCE 5-12 year olds (medRxiv)...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - March 5, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Coronapod: why stopping COVID testing would be a mistake
As many countries start to ease or even remove COVID restrictions entirely, there are growing concerns from researchers that this will lead governments to take their eye off the ball and crucially stop collecting and reporting vital data. In this episode of Coronapod we discuss calls from two researchers to improve COVID testing and data reporting. What do they want done differently? Why does it matter? And what could such changes mean for the future of the pandemic and public health more broadly?World View: Tracking COVID-19 infections: time for changeWorld View: Commit to transparent COVID data until ...
Source: Nature Podcast - March 4, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
COVID stimulus spending failed to deliver on climate promises
00:47 G20 nations fail to cut emissions in COVID stimulus packagesThe G20 economies spent $14 trillion dollars on recovery packages to escape the global recession driven by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many governments made pledges to deliver emissions reductions as part of these packages. This week, a team of researchers have analysed the spending to see if these promises were kept.Comment: G20’s US$14-trillion economic stimulus reneges on emissions pledges09:34 Research HighlightsAn artificial nerve cell triggers a Venus flytrap’s snap, and a fossil shows that pterosaurs in the Jurassic period were larger than previously t...
Source: Nature Podcast - March 2, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 870: COVID-19 clinical update #103 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In COVID-19 clinical update #102, Daniel Griffin covers immunocompromised people, hospitalization of children, vaccine usage update, Omicron and cross-reactive neutralizing antibodies, reinfection prevents disease in hamsters, repeated infections with endemic coronaviruses, global burden of antimicrobial resistance, ivermectin not protective in hamsters, and Omicron evades therapeutic monoclonals. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode What does society owe immunocompromised people (Atlantic) Prevalence of immunosuppression in US (JAME) Hospitali...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - February 26, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
JAMA Otolaryngology –Head & Neck Surgery : Association Between COVID-19 Vaccine and Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss
Interview with Ilana Doweck, MD, author of Association Between the BNT162b2 Messenger RNA COVID-19 Vaccine and the Risk of Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss, and Eric J. Formeister, MD, MS, author of Assessment of Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss After COVID-19 Vaccination Hosted by Joseph P. Bradley, MD. (Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews - February 24, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: The JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 868: COVID-19 clinical update #102 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In COVID-19 clinical update #102, Daniel Griffin reviews children and COVID, effectiveness of maternal vaccination, vaccines for immunocompromised, primary care physicians and vaccination rates, booster safety among adults, placentitis, azithromycin, oral Nirmatrelvir, Omicron antibody evasion, EUA for bebtelovimab, IL-1 blocking agents, thromboprophylaxis, effectiveness of vaccines against long COVID, and risks of mental health outcomes. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Children and COVID state data (AAP) Effectiveness of maternal vaccina...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - February 19, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
COVID-19 ’s long-term impact on the heart, and calculating the survival rate of human artifacts
On this week’s show: A giant study suggests COVID-19 takes a serious toll on heart health—a full year after recovery, and figuring out what percentage of ancient art, books, and even tools has survived the centuries
First up, Staff Writer Meredith Wadman talks with host Sarah Crespi about a new study that looked at more than 150,000 COVID-19 patient records and found increases in risk for 20 different cardiovascular conditions 1 year after recovery.
Also this week we have Mike Kestemont, an associate professor in the department of literature at the University of Antwerp, talking about an estimate of how...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - February 17, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
