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Week of April 19, 2021 Apr 28, 2021

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This episode discusses five MMWR COVID-19 reports. Two reports show that COVID-19 vaccination was effective in preventing illness among residents and staff in skilled nursing facilities. Another is about post-COVID conditions among adults with COVID-19 who did not require a hospital stay. The fourth highlights how Alaska's testing and quarantine requirements for air travelers may have reduced COVID-19 spread. The last report describes COVID-19 cases among incarcerated people in work-release programs.

Week of April 12, 2021 Apr 22, 2021

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This episode discusses six MMWR COVID-19 reports. One describes how leaving the middle seat vacant on airplanes could reduce exposure to COVID-19. Two describe higher proportions of emergency department visits and hospitalizations among people from racial and ethnic minority groups. The fourth report shows that U.S. emergency department visits during the pandemic included a larger proportion of patients seeking care for mental and behavioral health concerns. Another report underscores that over half a million more people than expected died in the U.S. during the past year. The last report shows that the during the COVID pandemic, there were almost no emergency department visits in the United States for influenza.

Week of April 5, 2021 Apr 15, 2021

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This episode discusses six MMWR COVID-19 reports. One report describes an indoor bar opening event that led to a COVID-19 outbreak in a rural Illinois community. Another details how participation in a free, in-school testing program at a Utah elementary school was higher among students identifying as Hispanic or Latino, or as from a racial minority group. The third report highlights how testing protocols in colleges and universities differed by class instruction type. Three reports describe the impact of COVID-19 on American Indian or Alaska Native people in the United States.

Week of March 29, 2021 Apr 05, 2021

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This episode discusses six MMWR COVID-19 reports. One report highlights the effectiveness of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in preventing COVID-19 among health care and other essential workers. Two reports spotlight COVID-19 mortality in the United States. Three reports detail the impact of COVID-19 on U.S. prisons and detention facilities.

Week of March 22, 2021 Mar 30, 2021

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This episode discusses four MMWR COVID-19 reports. One report describes how the impact of COVID-19 on communities of color changed during the pandemic. The second report highlights a CDC HIV program in Nigeria that increased the number people living with HIV who began receiving treatment. Another report describes the current status of the Global TB epidemic and explains how the pandemic has slowed global tuberculosis progress. The final report looks at the increasing number of adults reporting symptoms of anxiety and depression during the pandemic.

Week of March 15, 2021 Mar 26, 2021

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This episode discusses nine MMWR COVID-19 reports. Three reports look at COVID-19 vaccination, including real-world effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, vaccine series completion, and vaccination coverage in communities with high levels of social vulnerability. Three reports show how the pandemic has affected schools' operations, as well as, the mental health of students and their parents. The last three reports provide further evidence that schools can resume in-person learning without resulting in rapid spread of COVID-19 among students and staff.

Week of March 8, 2021 Mar 16, 2021

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This episode discusses three MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first one presents the link between elevated body mass index and the risk for severe COVID-19 illness, especially for people younger than 65. Another report describes how the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected racial and ethnic minority groups in the United States. The last report shows how the number of fatal opioid overdoses in an Illinois county increased during a stay-at-home order.

Week of March 1, 2021 Mar 11, 2021

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This episode discusses six MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first one describes recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for Johnson and Johnson's Janssen COVID-19 vaccine. Two reports detail how two new variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 were discovered in the United States. The fourth report underscores how proper resources and infection control measures can keep infection rates low among healthcare personnel. Another report found that the actual number of children in Mississippi with COVID-19 might have been much higher than the number of cases reported. The last report describes changes in rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths in counties with statewide mask mandates and counties where states allowed on-site dining at restaurants.

Week of February 22 Mar 02, 2021

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This episode discusses five MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first one describes the early success of a national COVID-19 vaccine campaign in Israel. Two reports detail COVID-19 outbreak investigations in gyms. The fourth shows how some skilled nursing facility residents may have been reinfected after being infected in a previous outbreak. The last report looks at clusters of COVID-19 in Georgia elementary schools and illustrates how the virus spreads.

Week of February 15, 2021 Feb 23, 2021

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This episode discusses six MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first two describe the detection and spread of COVID-19 variants in the United States and internationally. The third looks at data from the first month of COVID-19 vaccine safety monitoring. The fourth describes declines in routine vaccination rates among Medicare beneficiaries during the pandemic. The fifth report emphasizes how telehealth helps ensure access to care while limiting exposure to COVID-19. The last report discusses how employers can protect workers against COVID-19 by requiring and providing protective equipment such as face masks and physical barriers.

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