#205 COVID Cakes and Hot Takes with Rahul Ganatra MD
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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🗓️ 10 April 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Rundown of recent COVID articles and news stories including: Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, serologic testing, use of convalescent plasma, economic inequality / health disparities... and COVID in cats?! We’re joined by Curbsider/Internist/Epidemiologist, Rahul Ganatra MD, @rbganatra (VA Boston). Plus, @Paulnwilliamz and @cjchiu give us some telehealth along with the usual antics. Show Notes | Subscribe | Spotify | Swag! | Top Picks | Mailing List | thecurbsiders@gmail.com
Credits
- Written, Produced, Hosted by: Rahul Ganatra MD, Chris Chiu MD, FACP, FAAP; Matthew Watto MD, FACP; Paul Williams MD, FACP
- Cover Art and Show Notes by: Matthew Watto MD, FACP
- Editor: Matthew Watto MD
- Guest: Rahul Ganatra MD
Time Stamps
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00:00 Intro, COVID-19 and cats by Shi J Science Apr 2020; Picks of the week
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07:08 Telehealth (Greenhalgh BMJ 2020), Breathlessness (Roth score calculator), ACP COVID-19 resource site
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11:50 Telehealth best practices
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16:42 Convalescent plasma and Serology
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21:45 Chris discusses the decontamination of N95 masks using CCDS (CCDS, Battele news Report)
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23:45 Inequality during the pandemic VOX and NYTimes articles on inequality
- 25:30 Critical appraisal for HCQ + azithromycin article from France (Gautret et al IJAA 2020) and Rahul’s tweetorial
- 49:18 Pre-print data; Rahul discusses a newer HCQ randomized clinical trial article (Chen medRxiv 2020)
Transcript
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| 0:18.7 | Pretty much we are responsible if you screw up, you should always do your own homework |
| 0:20.6 | and let's know where we're off. |
| 0:30.0 | Paul, I think we should just start the show and it'll come a surprise to you that we |
| 0:41.0 | are recording two nights in a row, Paul. |
| 0:42.5 | This is just, they become the norm for us. |
| 0:44.6 | It's, I'm so happy to see you. |
| 0:45.8 | It's just always so nice. |
| 0:46.8 | You're just an area of constancy in an otherwise topsy-turvy world, so I just know my nights |
| 0:50.2 | are spent with Waddle and it would be better. |
| 0:53.0 | I miss you guys so much. |
| 0:55.2 | Yeah, that's Chris the Chewman chew. |
| 0:57.5 | He's here. |
| 0:58.5 | We also have with us Rahul Ganatra, Rahul you want to say hi to the audience. |
| 1:03.0 | Hello everybody. |
| 1:04.7 | And when you first were on the show, you promised that you liked animal facts. |
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