Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases Perspective

• What Ebola Has Taught Us About Managing COVID   Drs Robert Glatter, Craig Spencer, and Syra Madad discuss lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic that the US should have learned from the Ebola crisis.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, April 08, 2021
• Roberto Burioni on Conquering COVID and Charming the Skeptics   Virologist-author Roberto Burioni talks about the relevance of variants, why vaccines are our ticket out of this nightmare, and how best to deal with science and vaccine skeptics.
  Medscape, April 02, 2021
• Lawsuit: Doctor's Doubts Leads to Missed Diagnosis A mysterious illness continues to plague a patient. Could the physician have done anything to reach an earlier diagnosis?
  Cooperative of American Physicians, April 01, 2021
• Sjögren Syndrome-associated ILD Treated With Immunosuppression The case of a 39-year-old woman with Sjögren syndrome and clinically relevant pulmonary involvement.
  HSS Grand Rounds Complex Cases, March 30, 2021
• COVID Writing Goes Viral: How Writing Became a Lifeline   This is a special episode of the 'Medicine and the Machine' podcast, to celebrate Bellevue Literary Review's 20th anniversary -- with Dr Eric Topol, Dr Abraham Verghese, and Dr Danielle Ofri.
  Medscape, March 26, 2021
• Climate Change: Dermatologists Address Impact on Health 'Climate change is not a far-off threat but an urgent health issue,' Dr Misha Rosenbach, from Penn Medicine, wrote in an editorial with coauthor Mary Sun, a med student at Mount Sinai in New York.
  Medscape Medical News, March 19, 2021
• It's Okay to Overreact: Devi Sridhar Shares COVID's Humbling Lesson   Global health expert Devi Sridhar discusses with Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese how the countries that took the threat seriously from the get-go have fared better in loss of life and economic recovery.
  Medscape, March 18, 2021
• A Man With Fever, Fatigue, and a Trip to Nigeria A 36-year-old man returns from a trip to Nigeria with fever, fatigue, and muscle aches. Blood cultures drawn at urgent care and a rapid diagnostic test for malaria are negative. What's your diagnosis?
  CDC Expert Commentary, March 04, 2021
• What the NBA's Collaboration With Yale Reveals About COVID   The NBA was looking for help with COVID-19 surveillance. They found it in Nathan Grubaugh's team at Yale. Grubaugh talks with Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese about that collaboration and more.
  Medscape, February 23, 2021
• The Lost Year – Even for Common Respiratory Viruses The seasons for non–SARS-CoV-2 viruses changed; I just didn't expect they would nearly disappear.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, February 17, 2021
• Does Your Patient Have Latent TB Infection? Test Your Knowledge Learn how to identify and treat latent tuberculosis infection, thereby preventing TB disease and accelerating progress toward elimination.
  CDC Expert Commentary, February 12, 2021
• The Pandemic and America's Regressive National Psyche   Dr Jeffrey Lieberman offers a piece of his mind on the embarrassing and destructive response to the pandemic.
  Medscape Psychiatry, January 25, 2021
• 'We're Only Safe if We're All Safe': Global COVID Vaccination   Seth Berkley, CEO of Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, talks about vaccines, optimal vaccine distribution in the US and across the globe, and why he's optimistic about COVID and future outbreaks.
  Medscape, January 20, 2021
• How to Help COVID-19 Long-Haulers Patients with lingering symptoms need access to specialized clinics — and so much more.
  Knowable Magazine, January 19, 2021
• Eric Goosby on COVID, Race, and Building Health   A member of Biden's COVID advisory board, Goosby talks about why it's wise to unpack the vaccine trials, reach out to community organizations, and keep the pipeline of minority physicians full.
  Medscape, January 12, 2021
• Reducing Risk Now, While Preparing for the Next Pandemic   Virologist Angela Rasmussen talks about her battle against misinformation in the media, the virus, vaccines, disinfecting surfaces, home testing, and the next pandemic.
  Medscape, December 30, 2020
• Biden Adviser Dr Luciana Borio Previews the 2021 Pandemic Response   WebMD Chief Medical Officer John Whyte talks with Dr Luciana Borio about full approval for COVID-19 vaccines and what the Biden administration's pandemic response will look like in 2021.
  WebMD, December 23, 2020
• Understanding Messenger RNA and Other SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines mRNA vaccines work differently. They do not contain antigens. Instead, they contain a blueprint for the antigen in the form of genetic material, mRNA.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, December 15, 2020
• How COVID Vaccines Were Developed so Quickly   WebMD Chief Medical Officer John Whyte talks with Dr Michelle McMurry-Heath about the speed of the COVID-19 vaccines and when a vaccine may be available to the general public.
  WebMD, December 01, 2020
• What the Biden-Harris COVID-19 Task Force Is Missing COVID-19 is taking an increasingly alarming toll on the nation's mental health, which makes this oversight all the more disappointing, according to two psychiatrists.
  Medscape Psychiatry, November 25, 2020