COVID-19: Commonsense Conversations on the Coronavirus Pandemic

COVID-19: Commonsense Conversations on the Coronavirus Pandemic

63 episodes

Covid-19, the disease caused by a novel coronavirus, has created a global pandemic. This show aims to educate the public via interviews with leaders in healthcare, public health and policy. You’ll hear from former Kaiser CEO, host of the Fixing Healthcare podcast, and author of Mistreated: Why We Think We're Getting Good Health Care and Why We're Usually Wrong, Robert Pearl; critical care physician and frequent guest on The Doctors, “Dr. Raj” Dasgupta; Patrick C. Beeman, Ob/Gyn and founder of the medical education platform, InsideTheBoards; microbiology professor, Ken Rosenthal; and more.The host is Dr. Ted O’Connell, family physician and author of numerous textbooks and peer-reviewed articles. He holds academic appointments at UCSF, UC Davis, and Drexel University's medical schools and also founded the Kaiser Permanente Napa-Solano Community Medicine and Global Health Fellowship, the first program in the U.S. to formally combine both community medicine and global health

Podcasts

MEDICINE: Covid-19 Q&A For Sarcoidosis Patients (Crosspost from The Dr. Raj Podcast)

Published: Feb. 17, 2021, 3:03 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 11 seconds

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MEDICINE: Getting the Covid Vaccine While Pregnant (crosspost from the Dr. Raj Podcast)

Published: Dec. 31, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 6 seconds

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MEDICINE: Sports Safety and Returning to Exercise After COVID Infection | Alex McDonald, MD

Published: Sept. 23, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 21 seconds

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MEDICINE: COVID's Many Effects on the Heart | Stefanie Kaiser, MD

Published: Sept. 14, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 46 seconds

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MEDICINE: Reopening Schools, Viral Spread, and Reinfection | Ashish Jha, MD, MPH

Published: Aug. 26, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 49 seconds

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MEDICINE: What It Will Take To Get Back To Normal | Bob Wachter, MD

Published: Aug. 7, 2020, 6:38 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 10 seconds

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MEDICINE: Vaccine Progress and Mortality Data Updates | Tim Horita, MD

Published: July 29, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 49 seconds

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MEDICINE: CRISPR Technology and How It Might Revolutionize COVID Testing | Enrique Lin Shiao, Ph.D

Published: July 22, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 15 seconds

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INDUSTRY: How The Coronavirus Pandemic has Impacted the Music Industry | Rou Reynolds from Enter Shikari

Published: July 18, 2020, 9:44 a.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 18 seconds

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MEDICINE: The Ongoing and Evolving Threat of COVID-19 | Michael Osterholm, Ph.D

Published: July 15, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 7 seconds

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MEDICINE: The Unseen and Vital Roles of Housekeepers in the Hospital | Neil Prose, MD

Published: July 11, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 42 seconds

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MEDICINE: Launching a New Medical School During a Pandemic | Abbas Hyderi, MD

Published: July 8, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 41 seconds

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PUBLIC HEALTH: Systemic Racism, Health Disparities, and Public Health | Abdul El-Sayed, MD, PhD

Published: July 1, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 26 seconds

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HEALTH: The Intersection of the Pandemic and Black Lives Matter | Lynnell Morris, LCSW

Published: June 24, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 22 seconds

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MEDICINE: Chasing Cures for Rare Diseases and COVID-19 | David Fajgenbaum, MD

Published: June 10, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 9 seconds

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Weekly Update #8: Viral Mutations | Ted OConnell, MD and Tim Horita, MD

Published: June 6, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes

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MEDICINE: COVID Among the Elderly and Those in Nursing Facilities | Michael Mason, MD

Published: June 2, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 37 seconds

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MEDICINE: The Second Wave, Antibody Testing, MIS-C | Jennifer Kasten, MD

Published: May 28, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 19 seconds

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INDUSTRY: How Nonprofits are Navigating the Pandemic and Continuing to Help | Shawn Olds

Published: May 26, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 41 seconds

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MEDICINE: The Flying Eye Hospital, Technology to Treat Blindness Around the World | Daniel Neely, MD

Published: May 23, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 29 seconds

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MEDICINE: Safely Reopening Society, Leveraging Technology and Systems | Steve Parodi, MD

Published: May 21, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 25 seconds

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MEDICINE: Health Disparities, Virtual Medicine, Returning to Safe Socialization | Rachel Friedman, MD

Published: May 19, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 44 seconds

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Weekly Update #7: Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) | Ted O'Connell, MD

Published: May 18, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 26 seconds

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INDUSTRY: Sportswriting During a Pandemic, How Do Sports Reopen? | Tim Keown

Published: May 14, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 6 seconds

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MEDICINE: Antibody Testing, Reinfection, ACE-Inhibitors, and Hydroxychloroquine | Tim Horita, MD

Published: May 12, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 18 seconds

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Weekly Update #6: COVID-19 Causing Strokes and Blood Clots | Ted O'Connell, MD

Published: May 9, 2020, 9:58 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 53 seconds

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INDUSTRY: Surviving as a Small Business, Working Together | Matt McNally and Laurel Timms

Published: May 7, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 13 seconds

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INDUSTRY: How the COVID Pandemic is Affecting Professional and Amateur Athletes | Kevin Pierre-Louis

Published: May 5, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 38 seconds

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INDUSTRY: Cooking as Therapy, How Chefs are Helping, Restaurants Trying to Survive | Jet Tila

Published: May 2, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 17 seconds

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MEDICINE: The Origins of the AIDS Crisis and Parallels to the COVID Pandemic | Michael Gottlieb, MD

Published: May 1, 2020, 2:35 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 33 seconds

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POLITICS: Supporting Small Businesses, Appreciating Our Teachers, Helping the Homeless | Senator Bill Dodd

Published: April 28, 2020, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 53 seconds

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INDUSTRY: A Hollywood Actor Discusses How the COVID Pandemic is Impacting the Movie Industry | Will Ropp

Published: April 24, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 6 seconds

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MEDICINE: CovidUp2Date, Medical Students Rallying Together | Johns Hopkins Team

Published: April 22, 2020, 9:20 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 39 seconds

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MEDICINE: Communication, Managing Stress, and Behavioral Implications of the Pandemic | Todd Forman, MD

Published: April 20, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 45 seconds

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Weekly Update 5: Herd Immunity, COVID-19 Testing, and Immunity Testing | Ted O'Connell, MD and Tim Horita, MD

Published: April 19, 2020, 4:15 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 59 seconds

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HEALTH: A Healthcare Leader Discusses a Coordinated Response to the COVID Pandemic | Richard Isaacs, MD

Published: April 17, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 33 seconds

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HEALTH: Health Policy, Homelessness, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and Implicit Bias | Tessa Stecker, MD

Published: April 15, 2020, 7:19 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 35 seconds

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MEDICINE: Fox News Reaction, COVID Testing, and Reopening Society | Rishi Desai, MD, MPH

Published: April 13, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 15 seconds

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Weekly Update 4: Conditions That Increase Your Risk with COVID-19 Infection | Ted O'Connell, MD

Published: April 12, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 12 seconds

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SCIENCE: COVID-19 Vaccine Development for Pregnant Women, Infants, and Children | Sallie Permar, MD, PhD

Published: April 11, 2020, 11 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 21 seconds

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MENTAL HEALTH: The Psychology of Toilet Paper Hoarding, Fear, and Anxiety | Mitchell Houston, PhD

Published: April 8, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 20 seconds

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MENTAL HEALTH: How the Pandemic Has Affected Mental Health, Anxiety, and Depression | Nicholas Nissen

Published: April 6, 2020, 10:56 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 8 seconds

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Weekly Review: Masks and Recommendations | Ted O'Connell, MD

Published: April 6, 2020, 1:46 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 35 seconds

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HEALTH: How COVID-19 Affects Politics, Religion, Society, and Healthcare in Africa | Robert Dowd, CSC, PhD

Published: April 3, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 16 seconds

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MEDICINE: Health Policy, Advocacy, and Healthcare Leadership | Jay Lee

Published: April 1, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 52 seconds

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MEDICINE: Fatality Rates, YouTube Education, and ACE-Inhibitors | Sanaz Majd, MD

Published: March 30, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 22 seconds

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MEDICINE: An Infectious Disease Specialist Discusses COVID-19 Testing, Immunity, and Treatments | Jennifer Babik, MD

Published: March 27, 2020, 10:21 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 38 seconds

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NURSING: Personal Protective Equipment and Social Justice | Keith Carlson

Published: March 26, 2020, 9:35 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 29 seconds

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MEDICINE: Sports Medicine, Pro Sports, and Exercise and the Immune System | Dr. Moin Salah, Sports Medicine Physician

Published: March 25, 2020, 12:40 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 11 seconds

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MEDICINE: Flattening the Curve to Protect Vulnerable Infants | Dean Anselmo, MD

Published: March 23, 2020, 11:15 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 20 seconds

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Weekly Review: NSAIDs, ACE-Inhibitors, and ARBs | Ted O'Connell, MD

Published: March 23, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 37 seconds

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Weekend Update: NSAIDs, ACE-Inhibitors, and ARBs | Ted O'Connell, MD

Published: March 23, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 52 seconds

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MENTAL HEALTH: How COVID-19 is Affecting Our Mental Health and Impacting Children | Dr. Todd Grande

Published: March 21, 2020, 10:43 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 13 seconds

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MEDICINE: Emergency Preparedness, Travel, and Social Distancing | Drs. Aimee and Brian Ostick

Published: March 21, 2020, 12:23 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 31 seconds

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MEDICINE: A Critical Care Doctor on Intensive Care Units and Responsible Media | "Dr. Raj" Dasgupta

Published: March 19, 2020, 4:17 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 18 seconds

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SCIENCE: A Virologist Explains Coronavirus, COVID-19, and Vaccine Development | Ken S. Rosenthal, PhD

Published: March 17, 2020, 11:57 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 24 seconds

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INTRODUCING COVID-19: Commonsense Conversations on the Coronavirus Pandemic

Published: March 16, 2020, 5:50 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 22 seconds

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