COVID-19 pandemic

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Inside the race to conquer the COVID-19 pandemic [PODCAST]

March 30, 2022Mar 30, 2022

"That year, 2020, Uğur told the crowd, would be the year BioNTech proved the doubters wrong. There was no time to lose. Soon after he’d finished his talk, Uğur hopped on a plane to Seattle, where he met with a…

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“That year, 2020, Uğur told the crowd, would be the year BioNTech proved the doubters wrong.

There was no time to lose. Soon after he’d finished his talk, Uğur hopped on a plane to Seattle, where he met with a team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which had …

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Managing expectations during COVID-19 [PODCAST]

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March 18, 2022Mar 18, 2022

"I had sent an email to some key people in my organization about managing patients’ expectations and how that needed to be addressed differently on an organizational level. The truth of the matter is that I am powerless to change…

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“I had sent an email to some key people in my organization about managing patients’ expectations and how that needed to be addressed differently on an organizational level. The truth of the matter is that I am powerless to change the way the system handles a lot of things. …

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Looking back on 2 years of uncertainty, adversity and more than a few silver linings

March 18, 2022Mar 18, 2022

Since the beginning of COVID-19, we have recognized the truth of philosopher George Santayana's oft-quoted 1905 writing -- "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" -- and looked for lessons from the 1918 Spanish flu, the…

Since the beginning of COVID-19, we have recognized the truth of philosopher George Santayana’s oft-quoted 1905 writing — “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” — and looked for lessons from the 1918 Spanish flu, the deadliest pandemic of the 20th century. Much was different, yet so much the same. There was no testing, treatments, or ability to prevent the virus then beyond shutdowns, masking, distancing, …

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Unrequited: love in the time of COVID-19 [PODCAST]

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March 16, 2022Mar 16, 2022

"If you knew we are like the 'Two Fridas,' that our hearts are connected, would you change your mind? Would you stop as you are about to cut the artery feeding your heart and mine? If you knew that when…

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“If you knew we are like the ‘Two Fridas,’
that our hearts are connected,
would you change your mind?
Would you stop
as you are about to cut
the artery feeding your heart and mine?
If you knew that when you cry because of your loneliness,
because of your longing for your family,
that I cry, too, …

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What’s wrong? Patients use disinformation to blame doctors.

Abhaya P. Trivedi, MD

March 14, 2022Mar 14, 2022

"You were doing it wrong." The patient in my pulmonary clinic for follow-up after her discharge from a hospitalization in January of this year for COVID-19 pneumonia was explaining why she would not reconsider getting vaccinated despite her recent illness.…

“You were doing it wrong.”

The patient in my pulmonary clinic for follow-up after her discharge from a hospitalization in January of this year for COVID-19 pneumonia was explaining why she would not reconsider getting vaccinated despite her recent illness.

I told her I had been seeing people die from this disease for the last two years; I wanted to prevent others from suffering from severe illness and death—like her.

“People were dying …

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COVID and obstetrics: a physician shares her story [PODCAST]

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March 13, 2022Mar 13, 2022

"I thought of her with each miscarriage I saw in COVID+ mothers, and during each delivery of premature rupture of membranes due to infection. I thought of her every time I gave steroids, increased the oxygen flow for someone struggling…

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“I thought of her with each miscarriage I saw in COVID+ mothers, and during each delivery of premature rupture of membranes due to infection. I thought of her every time I gave steroids, increased the oxygen flow for someone struggling to breathe, or held the hand of someone before their …

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To treat future COVID variants, we need more than vaccines

Ian Chan, MBA

March 13, 2022Mar 13, 2022

The world is constantly trying to keep up with the latest COVID-19 variant – from Alpha to Omicron and now Omicron's cousin BA.2, we have seen how contagious and virulent these variants can be. Viruses are wily adversaries, and they…

The world is constantly trying to keep up with the latest COVID-19 variant – from Alpha to Omicron and now Omicron’s cousin BA.2, we have seen how contagious and virulent these variants can be. Viruses are wily adversaries, and they mutate both to avoid detection and to defeat the body’s immune responses from vaccines and previous infections.

Even if vaccines continue to be effective at preventing severe illness and death from …

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An epidemiologist talks about the “next” COVID-19 pandemic

Martha Rosenberg

March 8, 2022Mar 8, 2022

An interview with Rich DiPentima, MPH, former chief of communicable disease epidemiology at the New Hampshire Division of Public Health. Rosenberg: As the former chief of communicable disease epidemiology at the New Hampshire Division of Public Health and deputy public…

An interview with Rich DiPentima, MPH, former chief of communicable disease epidemiology at the New Hampshire Division of Public Health.

Rosenberg: As the former chief of communicable disease epidemiology at the New Hampshire Division of Public Health and deputy public health director in Manchester, NH, you wrote an op-ed a few months ago that compared COVID-19 with previous pandemics. Can you elaborate?

Dipentima: With smallpox, the only reservoir was …

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How to cope with pandemic fatigue

Masood R. Mohammed, DO

March 5, 2022Mar 5, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has been raging in the United States for over two years. Health care workers across the country have been chronically pushed to their limits as we navigate difficult situations on a daily basis. The advent of the COVID-19 vaccine, although a powerful tool in our crusade against the pandemic, has created a new branch of emotions for health care workers towards unvaccinated patients or those with vaccine …

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Am I a doctor or a contingency plan?

Margaret B. Nolan, MD

March 4, 2022Mar 4, 2022

Before COVID-19, meal planning and grocery shopping were the most time-consuming tasks of my life as a physician and mother of three young children. Now, meal planning is an indulgence compared to “COVID contingency planning” — the taxing brainwork of imagining multiple possible scenarios and following them through to the end with every iteration and its possible consequence accounted for. Add to this the need to insert updated but easy-to-misinterpret …

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A nuanced look at the Tuskegee syphilis study [PODCAST]

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March 3, 2022Mar 3, 2022

"The Tuskegee Syphilis Study is widely acknowledged as a violation of ethics today, but the social conditions of the time allowed the grave injustices to happen in plain sight. In the 1930s, social Darwinism emerged as justification for racist practices.…

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“The Tuskegee Syphilis Study is widely acknowledged as a violation of ethics today, but the social conditions of the time allowed the grave injustices to happen in plain sight. In the 1930s, social Darwinism emerged as justification for racist practices. The perceived inevitability of African Americans’ natural “extinction” was …

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People over profit: Pfizer and Moderna must share vaccine technology

Amber Gipson-Fine, MPH

March 3, 2022Mar 3, 2022

One year ago, the FDA granted emergency use authorization of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S., and nearly 549 million total vaccine doses have been given since. These vaccines have been safe, effective methods in preventing infection and death from…

Vaccine recipients had a lower overall risk of death from non-COVID-19 disease compared to unvaccinated counterparts.

Among available vaccines, …

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Society has unrealistic expectations of physicians

Tomi Mitchell, MD

March 3, 2022Mar 3, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic helped bring out people's true colors. After two years of the unrelenting pressures of the pandemic, people's true colors came out, and I will be frank about this truth. As physicians, we often put our patient's comfort…

The COVID-19 pandemic helped bring out people’s true colors. After two years of the unrelenting pressures of the pandemic, people’s true colors came out, and I will be frank about this truth. As physicians, we often put our patient’s comfort before ours, but at what point does one have to stop and reflect on this. As physicians, we are often put on a pedestal and have unrealistic expectations. We want …

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Individualism vs. the common good: It is time for the pendulum to swing back

Rafid Rahman, MD

March 2, 2022Mar 2, 20226

Health care is now at a crossroads. We've been hearing that phrase more often recently, but what does that mean? Being at a crossroads signifies that now is the time to make a decision that will affect the future in…

Health care is now at a crossroads.

We’ve been hearing that phrase more often recently, but what does that mean? Being at a crossroads signifies that now is the time to make a decision that will affect the future in substantial and irrevocable ways.

Why is health care at a crossroads now? Americans are getting sicker as every year passes: “A 2007 study reported that seven chronic diseases have a total impact on …

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How faith-based dialogue can support vaccine acceptance

Andrew Hatala, PhD & Maryam Chloé Pervaiz & Richard Handley, MD, DHSc, MBA & Tara Vijayan, MD

February 27, 2022Feb 27, 2022

It starts with an invocation. A prayer. A plea for redemption. This is how the Sabbath Town Halls, Sufi Naqshbandi, and Bahá’í community gatherings begin and end. Around the world, communities of faith are much more than a sanctuary. They…

It starts with an invocation. A prayer. A plea for redemption. This is how the Sabbath Town Halls, Sufi Naqshbandi, and Bahá’í community gatherings begin and end.

Around the world, communities of faith are much more than a sanctuary. They provide a space for healing and hope. As religious exemptions, hesitation, and resistance for vaccinations and public health policies have taken on a new fervor, the critical role of faith-based institutions in supporting …

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Pandemic behaviors, dog poop, and the social contract [PODCAST]

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February 24, 2022Feb 24, 2022

"It is hard to understand and communicate the uncertainty that comes with evolving science, the changing recommendations as we learn more, the vaccine that didn’t do all that was initially promised. It has become even harder with the erosion of…

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“It is hard to understand and communicate the uncertainty that comes with evolving science, the changing recommendations as we learn more, the vaccine that didn’t do all that was initially promised. It has become even harder with the erosion of trust and civility.

Back to the poop. It stinks. It’s …

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Are hospital CEOs responding to the realities of health care?

Ammura Hernandez, MD

February 24, 2022Feb 24, 2022

On December 14th, 2021, hospital CEOs met under the guise of The Transformative CEO Healthcare Summit to brainstorm novel ideas in health care and to create "a new world ecosystem." Themes included how to utilize medical data, how technology can…

On December 14th, 2021, hospital CEOs met under the guise of The Transformative CEO Healthcare Summit to brainstorm novel ideas in health care and to create “a new world ecosystem.” Themes included how to utilize medical data, how technology can transform health care and expanding at-home delivery systems of care.

Leaders in health care met just weeks before hospital admissions skyrocketed to an all-time high of …

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A soul that never loses faith

Patricia M. Fogelman, DNP

February 24, 2022Feb 24, 2022

I am so tired. Not in the usual "hard day at work," but in a "deep-in-my-soul" tired. I am exhausted. I am heading into my third year as system medical director, where I lead a system-wide palliative medicine program in…

I am so tired. Not in the usual “hard day at work,” but in a “deep-in-my-soul” tired. I am exhausted.

I am heading into my third year as system medical director, where I lead a system-wide palliative medicine program in rural health.

As in many rural systems, we have issues with broad geographic spread coupled with lower population density and limited resources.

But for those of us working in rural health, there is …

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The orphans of COVID: Who will care for them now?

Debbie Moore-Black, RN

February 23, 2022Feb 23, 2022

The 911 call came too late. Her daughter was 32 years old and usually quite healthy. But she refused the COVID vaccinations. She said she took her vitamins and was healthy and that “God is my pilot” and “I don’t…

Her mother knew she was running a high fever. She knew she was short of breath frequently … until…

Her 10-year-old grandson couldn’t wake his momma up …

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I am an ICU nurse. We are drowning. [PODCAST]

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February 22, 2022Feb 22, 2022

"Tears and sweat drown my face as I try to rip off my PPE and exit the room. I didn’t want to leave him, but I couldn’t bear another second in that reality. A whirlwind of emotions crash over me,…

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“Tears and sweat drown my face as I try to rip off my PPE and exit the room. I didn’t want to leave him, but I couldn’t bear another second in that reality. A whirlwind of emotions crash over me, and my knees weaken. I thought, “If I can …

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