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Week of June 6, 2022 Jun 15, 2022

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This episode discusses three MMWR reports. The first report examines ventilation improvement strategies in K-12 public schools. The second report describes racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 vaccination coverage. And the last report highlights the characteristics of adults evaluated for substance use and treatment planning.

Week of May 30, 2022 Jun 08, 2022

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This episode discusses three MMWR reports. The first report examines CDC's emergency response to a multistate monkeypox outbreak. The second report describes COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths among Alaska Native people. And the last report highlights pediatric melatonin poisonings in the United States over the last decade.

Week of May 23, 2022 May 31, 2022

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This episode discusses four MMWR reports. The first report examines ACIP's recommendation for use of the JYNNEOS vaccine in people aged 18 years and older at risk for occupational exposure to orthopoxviruses such as monkeypox. The second report describes post-COVID conditions among adult COVID-19 survivors aged 18 years and older. The third report highlights barriers to and disparities in access to health care among adults aged 18 years and older with epilepsy. And the last report looks at seizure- or epilepsy-related emergency department visits before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Week of May 16, 2022 May 25, 2022

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This episode discusses four MMWR reports. The first report highlights the effectiveness of a COVID-19 additional primary or booster dose among nursing home residents. The second report examines modifiable risk factors for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias among adults aged 45 years and older. The third report highlights changes in firearm homicide and suicide rates in the United States from 2019 to 2020. And the last report looks at factors associated with HIV prevention and health care use among transgender women.

Week of April 18, 2022 Apr 27, 2022

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This episode discusses four MMWR reports. The first report highlights children ages 5-11 years hospitalized with COVID-19. The second report examines vaccination coverage among children in kindergarten. The third report highlights mortality data in the United States in 2021. And the last report looks at the COVID-19 death rates by race and ethnicity.

Week of April 11, 2022 Apr 20, 2022

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This episode discusses three MMWR reports. The first report highlights COVID-19 death rates and vaccine coverage in Hong Kong during the ongoing Omicron COVID-19 outbreak. The second report examines 10 people infected with the Omicron variant within 90 days of being infected with Delta. And the last report looks at the effectiveness of mRNA vaccination after previous infection in preventing COVID-19-associated hospitalization with a reinfection.

Week of March 28, 2022 Apr 07, 2022

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This episode discusses eight MMWR reports. This week, MMWR released a supplement of five reports looking at adolescent behaviors and experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sixth report highlights the increased use of at-home COVID-19 testing in the United States. The seventh report examines heart complications after COVID-19 infection and mRNA COVID-19 vaccination. And the last report looks at the effectiveness of COVID-19 boosters following one dose of Johnson & Johnson's Janssen COVID-19 vaccine.

Week of March 14, 2022 Mar 23, 2022

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This episode discusses four MMWR reports. The first report looks at hospitalizations of infants and children ages 4 and younger with COVID-19. The second report highlights the effectiveness of the mRNA vaccination in preventing COVID-19-associated mechanical ventilation and death. The third report examines COVID-19-associated hospitalizations among adults during Omicron by race and ethnicity. And the last report looks at ACIP's recommendation for the use of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in adults and intervals for administration of the primary series.

Week of March 7, 2022 Mar 16, 2022

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This episode discusses three MMWR reports. The first report looks at the impact of universal masking policies in K-12 school districts on COVID-19 incidence. The second report highlights the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in preventing COVID-19 among children and teens. And the last report examines access to COVID-19 vaccine providers and vaccination coverage among children aged 5-11 years.

Week of February 28, 2022 Mar 08, 2022

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This episode discusses three MMWR reports. The first report looks at safety monitoring of COVID-19 vaccine booster doses among people aged 12-17 years. The second report examines the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in preventing COVID-19-associated emergency department and urgent care encounters and hospitalizations among children and teens. And the last report highlights the increasing disparities in COVID-19 vaccination coverage between urban and rural counties.

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