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Plenary Session

2.50 Neil Ferguson, Ending Lockdown, & Updates on COVID-19 Management with Dr. Benjamin Singer

Plenary Session

Vinay Prasad, MD MPH

Health, Medicine, Policy, Oncology, Science & Medicine

4.7789 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

This week's topic is all things COVID-19 -- we discuss the viral scandal of British epidemiologist Neil Ferguson's actions and how it reflects (or doesn't) on his work, we talk about the nuances of how to end lockdowns, and we bring back Dr. Benjamin Singer, a pulmonary and critical care physician at Northwestern University, to address updates in the ICU management of COVID-19. Invisible Pandemic: doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31035-7 Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession

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0:00.0

Welcome to Plenary Session.

0:07.0

I'm your host, Dr. Vinay Prasad.

0:10.0

I'm a practicing hematologist, oncologist, and I'm associate professor of medicine.

0:14.0

I'm interested in issues at the intersection of medicine, oncology, and health policy,

0:19.0

and that's what you're going to get on this podcast.

0:22.3

Welcome to Season 2.

0:25.2

This week on Plenary Session, I'm back here in End of Day's Bunker, and I'm joined via Zoom by Dr.

0:30.5

Benjamin Singer, and we're going to talk more about the ICU management of COVID-19.

0:34.6

But first, I'm going to talk a little bit about some of the issues that have arisen in this week's news. You won't want to miss this discussion. Stay tuned. And one last

0:43.4

warning, we'll be back soon in the near future with some discussion of pivotal trials of

0:48.8

oncologic drugs, specifically olapribin prostate cancer, and tucatinib in her two positive breast cancer.

0:55.6

You won't want to miss those discussions on a future episode.

0:58.5

But this one, we're going to talk about the topic de jour, COVID.

1:04.0

But first, a thanks.

1:06.2

I want to thank those of you who've gone online and support this podcast on patreon.com.

1:11.0

Patreon subscribers get access to the slides from lectures I give on Plenary Session.

1:15.8

I also want to thank the hundreds of you who've gone to the iTunes store and reviewed this

1:19.9

podcast. We appreciate that feedback. I also want to thank the dozens of you who've written

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reviews. A written review goes a long way. What can Plenary Session do for you?

1:29.5

Email us your questions at Plenary Session podcast at gmail.com. Tweet to us at Plenary underscore Session.

1:35.4

Let us know what you like about the podcast and let us know what you don't like. This year on season two,

1:40.7

we're going to incorporate some new elements in the podcast, and we want to know your feedback on them.

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