Coronavirus (COVID-19) Q&A
by JAMA NetworkConversations with experts and frontline clinicians about the COVID-19 pandemic, hosted by editors from the JAMA Network.
Episodes
Delivery of Ophthalmic Telemedicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic
16m · PublishedInterview with Grayson W. Armstrong, MD, MPH, author of Association of Patient Characteristics With Delivery of Ophthalmic Telemedicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic, and Fasika Ambachew Woreta, MD, MPH, author of Analysis of Sex Diversity Trends Among Ophthalmology Match Applicants, Residents, and Clinical Faculty
Rebounding From COVID-19’s Reversal of Recent Progress in the ICU
21m · PublishedMany patients experience neurocognitive deficits, PTSD, and generalized weakness and disability following an intensive care unit (ICU) stay. JAMA Medical News Senior Writer Rita Rubin talks with E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH, a professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, about ICU aftereffects, post-acute COVID-19 syndrome, and how the coronavirus pandemic, particularly hospitals’ restrictions on visitors, impeded progress made since the 1990s in caring for the critically ill.
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Rebounding From COVID-19’s Reversal of Recent Progress in the ICU
21m · PublishedMany patients experience neurocognitive deficits, PTSD, and generalized weakness and disability following an intensive care unit (ICU) stay. JAMA Medical News Senior Writer Rita Rubin talks with E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH, a professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, about ICU aftereffects, post-acute COVID-19 syndrome, and how the coronavirus pandemic, particularly hospitals’ restrictions on visitors, impeded progress made since the 1990s in caring for the critically ill.
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New Evidence on the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Health Insurance Coverage
18m · PublishedWe know that the pandemic caused millions of people to lose their jobs, and potentially their job-based insurance, and yet new survey data showed surprisingly small changes in uninsurance rates at the end of 2020. Kate Bundorf, PhD, from the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University and Jessica Banthin, PhD, of the Urban Institute talk to JAMA Health Forum Deputy Editor Melinda Buntin about these trends and the role played by Medicaid and exchange coverage. JAMA Health Forum Editor John Ayanian and Melinda Buntin also discuss other recent work about health insurance coverage and the ACA that has appeared in JAMA Health Forum.
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- Making the Affordable Care Act Marketplace More Affordable
Quantifying Particle Aerosolization Risk During Tracheostomy Surgery and Tracheostomy Care
16m · PublishedInterview with Alexander T. Hillel, M.D., author of Quantifying Viral Particle Aerosolization Risk During Tracheostomy Surgery and Tracheostomy Care
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COVID-19’s Shock to Health Care Services
22m · PublishedThe COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching effects on the use of health care services. Dr Nora Becker of the University of Michigan talks about her research on reductions in the use of women’s preventive health services, and JAMA Health Forum Editors Dr John Ayanian and Dr Melinda Buntin discuss other JAMA Health Forum pieces on the effects of state “reopenings” on COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths, the effects of day care closures on women’s participation in the labor force, and news about nursing home outbreaks of COVID-19.
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- Utilization of Women’s Preventive Health Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- CDC Estimates Thousands of Excess Deaths Among US Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease During COVID-19 Pandemic’s Early Months
- Most US Nursing Homes Had Multiple, Sustained COVID-19 Outbreaks, GAO Reports
- Association of Childcare Facility Closures With Employment Status of US Women vs Men During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- US Trends in COVID-19–Associated Hospitalization and Mortality Rates Before and After Reopening Economies
- Lessons Emerging From COVID-19 Responses by US States
COVID-19’s Shock to Health Care Services
22m · PublishedThe COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching effects on the use of health care services. Dr Nora Becker of the University of Michigan talks about her research on reductions in the use of women’s preventive health services, and JAMA Health Forum Editors Dr John Ayanian and Dr Melinda Buntin discuss other JAMA Health Forum pieces on the effects of state “reopenings” on COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths, the effects of day care closures on women’s participation in the labor force, and news about nursing home outbreaks of COVID-19.
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- Utilization of Women’s Preventive Health Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- CDC Estimates Thousands of Excess Deaths Among US Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease During COVID-19 Pandemic’s Early Months
- Most US Nursing Homes Had Multiple, Sustained COVID-19 Outbreaks, GAO Reports
- Association of Childcare Facility Closures With Employment Status of US Women vs Men During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- US Trends in COVID-19–Associated Hospitalization and Mortality Rates Before and After Reopening Economies
- Lessons Emerging From COVID-19 Responses by US States
Lung Transplants for COVID-19—The Option of Last Resort
33m · PublishedLung transplantation has become an option of last resort for a small subset of patients with COVID-19-related acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) or pulmonary fibrosis. Ankit Bharat, MD, chief of Thoracic Surgery and director of Lung Transplant and ECMO at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, discusses his experience performing lung transplants for patients with respiratory failure due to COVID-19, including the first successful double lung transplant in the US for a patient with COVID-19-related ARDS.
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May 2021 Medical News Summary
25m · PublishedResearchers Tie Severe Immunosuppression to Chronic COVID-19 and Virus Variants; An Inside Look at a Post–COVID-19 Clinic; COVID-19 and the “Lost Year” for Smokers Trying to Quit
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An Inside Look at a Post–COVID-19 Clinic
24m · PublishedCOVID-19 leaves some people with a troubling constellation of symptoms that has been known as long-haul COVID but now has a more formal name: postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC). Currently, 33 states in the US have at least 1 clinic dedicated to caring for patients with PASC. Aluko Hope, MD, a pulmonary and critical care physician, cofounded the Montefiore-Einstein COVID-19 Recovery Clinic in New York in 2020. Now the medical director of the Long Covid-19 Program at the Oregon Health & Sciences University, Dr Hope provides insight into the care provided at a post-COVID-19 clinic.
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Q&A has 250 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 104:48:48. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on December 22nd 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 14th, 2024 11:40.