3.46 COVID-19 Risk, Cases, and Transmission in K-12 Schools with Dr. Tracy Høeg

Plenary Session

Vinay Prasad, MD MPH

Health, Medicine, Policy, Oncology, Science & Medicine

4.7 • 789 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Today we interview Dr. Tracy Høeg on her new paper and her ongoing research into COVID-19 transmission in K-12 schools in Wisconsin, USA. Dr. Høeg is an epidemiologist and an interventional sports and medicine spine specialist at Northern California Orthopaedic Associates. Her paper is titled "COVID-19 Cases and Transmission in 17 K-12 Schools - Wood County, Wisconsin, August 31-November 29, 2020" and is published in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Cases in K-12 Schools: doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7004e3 Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew

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0:00.0	Welcome. I'm Dr. Vinay Prasad. I'm a hematologist, oncologist, and I'm associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. In my professional life, I see patients, I teach trainees, and I do research in health care policy. This is Plenary Session.
0:22.9	Plenary Session is a podcast at the intersection of medicine, oncology, and health policy.
0:27.5	And you're listening to Season 3.
0:30.7	On this week's episode.
0:33.0	This week on Plenary Session, I'm joined by Tracy Beth Hogue.
0:36.0	She's an epidemiologist and a sports medicine doctor,
0:38.1	and she's one of the authors of a new paper that came out in the Moridity Mortality Weekly Reports of the CDC
0:42.9	that looks at the Wisconsin experience on schools and finds, surprise, surprise, it's safe and you better open them.
0:48.9	You won't want to miss this discussion.
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1:18.0	Dr. Hogue is a sports medicine physician.
1:21.5	She's also an epidemiologist, and she's the author of a very new and interesting study
1:25.5	about the Wisconsin experience and opening schools in the time of
1:29.3	COVID. Dr. Hogue, it's a pleasure to speak with you today. Thank you and I. Thanks so much for
1:34.7	having me. It's a pleasure to be here. I really love your show. Oh, thank you. Well, I'm a big
1:39.0	fan of your Twitter account. And I have to applaud you because, I mean, I think, you know, I'm drawn to this
1:46.3	issue as a policy question, but I think it's probably, in retrospect, will be probably the most
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