Influenza Perspective

• The Latest Update on COVID-19 and the Heart   WebMD Chief Medical Officer John Whyte talks with Dr Deepak Bhatt about the ways COVID-19 puts heart disease patients at risk and also causes new heart problems.
  WebMD, June 04, 2020
• Why Don't We Have a Vaccine for SARS or MERS? We don't have vaccines for SARS, MERS, or HIV. Does that spell doom for efforts to develop a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2?
  Medscape Internal Medicine, May 28, 2020
• Has the Pandemic 'Infected' Our Approach to Medicine? Changing long-standing protocols. Using unproven drugs. Targeting colleagues. Blame the COVID-19 'superinfection' for these changes in physicians' thinking, argues Vinay Prasad.
  Medscape Oncology, May 20, 2020
• An Update From the Frontlines, With Dr Esther Choo   WebMD Chief Medical Officer John Whyte talks with Dr Esther Choo about what's going on on the frontlines, the status of the PPE shortage, and how the reopening of society should be handled.
  WebMD, May 13, 2020
• Plan Now to Address the COVID-19 Mental Health Fallout A look ahead at how to prepare for the mental health manifestations of the coronavirus pandemic.
  Medscape Psychiatry, May 13, 2020
• 'Cardio-COVID': Amal Mattu on COVID-19 and Matters of the Heart Dr Mattu discusses how to approach the treatment of cardiac complications in patients with COVID-19 in the emergency department.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, May 08, 2020
• Should We Tone Down Social Distancing to Help the US Economy?   Dr Art Caplan discusses the balance between minimizing economic damage and the need to control the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, May 06, 2020
• COVID-19 Data Dives: Good Serosurveys Are Needed. Not All Are Good Bill Hanage describes the many uncertainties surrounding current data examining the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, May 05, 2020
• The Promise of Remdesivir for COVID-19 Treatment   WebMD Chief Medical Officer John Whyte talks with Dr Stuart Cohen about remdesivir for the possible treatment of COVID-19 infection, and when we might expect to see the development of a vaccine.
  WebMD, April 30, 2020
• 'Cybertricians' Help COVID Patients Stay Home Emergency medicine delivered via teletechnology has changed dramatically from the old days of 2019.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, April 30, 2020
• COVID-19 Diary Day 14: Can Patients Demand Your COVID Status? When a patient demands that oncologist Don Dizon get tested for COVID-19, he wonders whether requests like these are proper during an infectious disease outbreak.
  Medscape Oncology, April 24, 2020
• Asymptomatic AF: Should We Intervene, and if so, How?   Dig a little deeper and you may find that patients with 'asymptomatic' AF actually have symptoms. But then what? This Mayo Clinic electrophysiologist has the answers.
  Mayo Clinic, April 22, 2020
• 'Silent Hypoxemia' and Clinical Observations in COVID-19   A medical intensivist describes the atypical clinical signs and symptoms she's seeing in COVID-19 patients.
  Medscape Hospital Medicine, April 16, 2020
• COVID-19 Diary Day 7: When Risks Become Very Real On a somber Easter Sunday, Don Dizon hears from a colleague who just witnessed a COVID-19 code.
  Medscape Oncology, April 14, 2020
• Heroes From a Distance, 'Lepers' Up Close? We are the darlings of the news media, but that hasn't necessarily extended to our 'off-duty' lives, says Dr Amy Faith Ho.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, April 08, 2020
• Iranian Doctors 'Dance' to Defy Coronavirus An Iranian doctor who immigrated to Canada shares reports of the outbreak in his home country.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, April 03, 2020
• 'Our Job Is to Save as Many People as Possible,' ICU Doc Says   'Usually in our clinical practice, you feel confident about a lot of the therapies that you're considering,' Angela Rogers, MD, said. But everything in the ICU is different with COVID-19.
  Medscape, April 02, 2020
• Is It Time That We All Start Wearing Masks? Is it time to change our public health message and suggest that everyone wear a mask? Dr Amy Baxter offers her arguments in support of change.
  Medscape Public Health, April 01, 2020
• COVID-19 Death Predictions: What Do We Need to Know?   Predicting the number of deaths caused by COVID-19 is necessary for driving public health interventions, but where do these predictions come from?
  Medscape, March 31, 2020
• Advice for Lessening Your Pandemic Anxiety Dr Jeffrey Lieberman on how 'the worried well' and those with established mental illness can navigate this unprecedented moment.
  Medscape Psychiatry, March 31, 2020