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Week of January 9, 2023 Jan 19, 2023

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This episode discusses four MMWR reports. The first report describes vaccination coverage by age 2 among U.S. children born during 2018-2019. The second report describes vaccination coverage among kindergartners during the 2021-22 school year. The third report looks at the safety of the updated bivalent COVID-19 booster among children aged 5-11 years. And the last report examines the cholera outbreak in Haiti.

Week of January 2nd, 2023 Jan 12, 2023

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This episode discusses two MMWR reports. The first report describes racial and ethnic differences in COVID-19 vaccination coverage among children and teens and parental intent to vaccinate their children. The second report describes mpox cases among cisgender women and pregnant people.

Week of December 26, 2022 Jan 09, 2023

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This episode discusses five MMWR reports. The first report describes how well the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine has worked in preventing COVID-19-associated emergency department or urgent care visits and COVID-19-associated hospitalization. The second report examines children and teens who had both COVID-19 and flu at the same time. The third report looks at overdose deaths among adolescents aged 10-19 years. The last two reports look at the safety and impact of the mpox vaccine in preventing mpox.

Week of November 28, 2022 Dec 07, 2022

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This episode discusses three MMWR reports. The first report describes HIV services and outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic. The second report looks at appliances used by consumers to prepare frozen stuffed chicken products. The last report looks at self-reported COVID-19 infection among U.S. adults.

Week of November 21, 2022 Dec 01, 2022

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This episode discusses four MMWR reports. The first report describes the effectiveness of the updated bivalent booster in preventing COVID-19 illness. The second report examines the hospitalization rate among adults with COVID-19 who were prescribed Paxlovid. The third report describes progress toward regional measles elimination. And the last report highlights progress toward global eradication of Guinea worm disease.

Week of November 7, 2022 Nov 16, 2022

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This episode discusses four MMWR reports. The first report looks at tobacco product use among middle school and high school students. The second report examines COVID-19-associated hospitalizations among U.S. infants younger than 6 months old. The third report describes the characteristics of monkeypox in the United States and the public health response to the U.S. monkeypox outbreak. The last report looks at the current Ebola virus outbreak in Uganda.

Week of October 31, 2022 Nov 09, 2022

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This episode discusses five MMWR reports. The first report looks at CDC's updated Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain. The second report examines the prevalence and characteristics of arthritis among caregivers. The third report describes vaccination coverage among children worldwide. The fourth report examines the safety of the updated bivalent COVID-19 mRNA vaccine booster doses. And the last report looks at the clinical features of monkeypox in children and teens.

Week of October 24, 2022 Nov 02, 2022

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This episode discusses six MMWR reports. The first report examines wastewater testing and detection of poliovirus in New York. The second report describes severe monkeypox in hospitalized patients in the United States. The third report looks at flu-related hospitalizations and vaccination coverage by race and ethnicity in the United States. The fourth report looks at the timing and severity of Chile's most recent flu season and the effectiveness of the flu vaccine against hospitalization with influenza A(H3N2) viruses. The last two reports examine disparities in the outpatient treatment of COVID-19 in the United States.

Week of October 17, 2022 Oct 26, 2022

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This episode discusses seven MMWR reports. The first three reports highlight the progress that's been made toward improving access to the monkeypox vaccine for those who are most affected. The fourth report looks at Monkeypox virus infection of the eye. The fifth report examines a case of monkeypox in a health care provider resulting from an occupational needlestick injury. The sixth report examines influenza and COVID-19 vaccination coverage among health care personnel. And the last report looked at vaccine effectiveness with the original monovalent COVID-19 vaccine during Omicron against COVID-19-associated hospitalization.

Week of October 10, 2022 Oct 18, 2022

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This episode discusses five MMWR reports. The first report looks at adverse childhood experiences among high school students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The second report highlights e-cigarette use among middle and high school students in the United States. The third report examines firearm homicide and suicide rates in the United States. The fourth report examines antihistamine positivity and involvement in drug overdose deaths. And the last report describes the rates and trends of foodborne diseases.

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