Apr 24, 2020 This Week in Cardiology Podcast
This Week in Cardiology
Medscape Podcasts
4.9 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
New epidemiologic studies, pitfalls of testing, and treatments for COVID-19 are the topics discussed by John Mandrola, MD in this week's podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to this week in cardiology from the heart.org on medscape. |
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| 0:38.6 | Hi everyone, this is John Mandrola from the Heart.org Medscape Cardiology and this is this week in |
| 0:45.7 | cardiology for April 24th, 2020. Today, COVID-19. |
| 0:52.0 | I'll start with the US numbers. Today, COVID-19. |
| 0:52.9 | I'll start with the U.S. numbers. |
| 0:55.3 | When I recorded last week, there were 675,000 cases, |
| 0:59.0 | and today there are approximately 888,000 cases. |
| 1:04.0 | The rate of rise three weeks ago was threefold. |
| 1:07.1 | Two weeks ago, it was doubling. |
| 1:09.2 | Last week it rose by 1.35X, |
| 1:12.4 | and this week it rose by 1.35X and this week it rose by 1.30X. This is a decreasing rate of rise despite increased testing. That's good. |
| 1:22.0 | The death numbers also tell a slightly upbeat story. When I recorded last week |
| 1:27.0 | there were 30,000 deaths in the US and today there were approximately 50,000. |
| 1:31.4 | So the rate of rise three weeks ago was fivefold. Two weeks ago it was tripling. |
| 1:37.0 | Last week it rose by 1.8 and this week it has risen by 1.6. |
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