Coronavirus Q&A With Andy Slavitt, MBA
Andy Slavitt, MBA, discusses recent developments in the COVID-19 pandemic and the US response. Slavitt is former Acting CMS Administrator in the Obama administration, board director at the United Stat...
21 Okt 202045min
Can We Count on Herd Immunity to Control COVID-19?
Many people are hoping that enough people develop resistance to COVID-19, either from being exposed to the disease or from vaccination, to develop herd immunity that will enable society to return to n...
19 Okt 202016min
Prioritizing Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations for Coronavirus Vaccination
The National Academy of Medicine has recommended that racial minority populations receive priority for vaccination because they have been hard hit by the pandemic and are "worse off" socioeconomically...
16 Okt 202031min
Digging Into Obesity's COVID-19 Risks
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill nutrition scholar Barry Popkin, PhD, and JAMA Medical News Associate Managing Editor Jennifer Abbasi discuss new findings on obesity and COVID-19. Pop...
15 Okt 202025min
Sensible Medicine—Balancing Intervention and Inaction During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Interview with Christopher W. Seymour, MD, MSc, author of Sensible Medicine—Balancing Intervention and Inaction During the COVID-19 Pandemic Related Article(s): Sensible Medicine—Balancing Interventi...
15 Okt 202021min
Who Gets Coronavirus Vaccine First?
On October 2 the US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine issued its consensus Framework for Equitable Allocation of a COVID-19 Vaccine. William H. Foege, MD, MPH, emeritus distingu...
7 Okt 202035min
Coronavirus Vaccine Update From the FDA
Peter Marks, MD, PhD, directs the US FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) and will "call the balls and strikes" on any COVID-19 vaccine, according to FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn...
7 Okt 202032min
US Adults' Preferences for Public Allocation of a Vaccine for Coronavirus Disease 2019
Sarah E. Gollust, PhD joins JAMA Network Open Digital Media Editor, Seth Trueger, MD, MPH, to discuss a survey study examining public perception of high priority groups for receipt of an eventual coro...
6 Okt 202010min
