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MMWR Weekly Briefing

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

This weekly podcast series summarizes the latest scientific information published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).

science & medicine

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00:07:05

Week of November 23, 2020

MMWR Weekly Briefing ·

2020/12/03

This week, MMWR published five reports. One describes four ethical principles that will guide decision-making on how COVID-19 vaccines will be allocated once vaccines are authorized or approved. The second report describes trends in new cases of COVID-19 in Kansas counties with and without mask mandates. The third report details a COVID-19 outbreak investigation in Minnesota following a motorcycle rally in South Dakota. The fourth report highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic may be negatively

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00:08:55

Week of November 16, 2020

MMWR Weekly Briefing ·

2020/11/23

This week, MMWR published three reports and a new feature called COVID-19 Stats. One report demonstrates how frequent testing combined with preventive behaviors limited the spread of COVID-19 on a university campus. The second report describes the rapid spread of COVID-19 in New York City in early spring. The last report details how COVID-19 impacts residents and staff in assisted living facilities in the United States. Lastly, COVID-19 Stats, our new feature, showcases recent data in a figure to

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00:08:55

Week of November 9, 2020

MMWR Weekly Briefing ·

2020/11/19

This week, MMWR published five reports. Two reports show how social gatherings likely contributed to the rapid spread of COVID-19 in rural communities. The third report looks at hospital readmissions after COVID-19 hospitalizations. The fourth report describes the evaluation of a symptom-based COVID-19 screening program at U.S. airports. The last report highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic may be negatively impacting children's mental health.

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00:10:34

Week of November 2, 2020

MMWR Weekly Briefing ·

2020/11/09

This week, MMWR published seven reports. One looks at how COVID-19 spreads within households. Two reports underscore the importance of counseling pregnant women about their risk for severe COVID-19 illness and the potential risk for preterm birth. Another report looked at possible workplace exposures to COVID-19 and how those who telework are less likely to have infection. Two reports published this week focus on the Hopi Tribe in Arizona - one report detailing an outbreak among the tribe and

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00:09:43

Week of October 26, 2020

MMWR Weekly Briefing ·

2020/11/07

This week, MMWR published seven reports. Two reports examine the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare workers. Another report focuses on the increasing role of telehealth in delivering healthcare during the pandemic. One report describes how COVID-19 spread rapidly during an overnight high school retreat in Wisconsin among people who had recently tested negative. A report details a COVID-19 outbreak among a university's men's and women's soccer teams. Another report describes how behaviors to prevent

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00:10:08

Week of October 19, 2020

MMWR Weekly Briefing ·

2020/10/26

This week, MMWR published seven reports. One report compares adverse outcomes from patients hospitalized with COVID-19 versus flu. Two reports examine deaths during the pandemic including COVID-19-associated deaths and excess deaths. Another report finds that socially vulnerable communities are more likely to become COVID-19 hotspots. A theme that runs through these first four reports is the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 among racial and ethnic minority groups. Another two reports highlight

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00:07:21

Week of October 12, 2020

MMWR Weekly Briefing ·

2020/10/19

This week, MMWR published four reports. Two looked at factors influencing the risk of exposure to COVID-19 among young adults in a Wisconsin county, and how younger adults may be spreading the virus to older people. A third report describes a COVID-19 outbreak after a recreational hockey game in Florida. The fourth report looked at hand hygiene experiences and beliefs among adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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00:07:23

Week of October 5, 2020

MMWR Weekly Briefing ·

2020/10/12

This week, MMWR published a total of four reports. Reports in this week's issue looked at a COVID-19 outbreak linked to a three-week family gathering, successful efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19 in Arizona, and how hand washing practices among adults have changed since the pandemic. Another report detailed how adults with COVID-19 can develop a condition called multisystem inflammatory syndrome.

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00:06:51

Week of September 28, 2020

MMWR Weekly Briefing ·

2020/10/05

This week, MMWR published a series of reports describing the role that young adults have played in the spread of COVID-19. This week's issue also looked at COVID-19 among school-aged children and CDC deployments to work with health agencies in state, tribal, local, and territorial areas.

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00:06:42

Week of September 21, 2020

MMWR Weekly Briefing ·

2020/09/28

This week, MMWR published four reports. One describes the likely role of younger adults in the spread of COVID-19 and another describes characteristics of more than 100,000 healthcare workers in the U.S. with COVID-19. This week's issue also looked at contact tracing efforts in North Carolina, and how Utah residents in more disadvantaged areas were more likely to be infected with COVID-19.

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00:05:36

Week of September 14, 2020

MMWR Weekly Briefing ·

2020/09/21

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted Americans of all stages of life from babies and young children, to pregnant women, to older adults. This week, MMWR published a total of eight COVID-19 reports. They describe the role of children in spreading COVID-19, COVID-19 deaths among the pediatric, adolescent, and young adult populations, and two reports about health outcomes among pregnant women. MMWR also published three reports about COVID-19 in high-risk congregate settings for older adults. Finally,

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00:05:36

Week of September 7, 2020

MMWR Weekly Briefing ·

2020/09/14

This week, MMWR published reports about how adults with COVID-19 were more likely to have dined at a restaurant before getting sick, the number of adults delaying or avoiding medical care due to COVID-19 concerns, and how many essential workers were found to have underlying medical conditions.

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00:00:22

MMWR Weekly COVID-19 Trailer

MMWR Weekly Briefing ·

2020/09/08

Charlotte Kent, Editor-in-Chief of CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report introduces the MMWR's Weekly COVID-19 Briefing series.

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00:00:22

Week of August 31, 2020

MMWR Weekly Briefing ·

2020/09/08

This week, MMWR published reports about COVID-19 cases going undetected among frontline U.S. health care workers, how stay-at-home orders influenced behaviors in communities, and prescribing patterns for hydroxychloroquine during the pandemic.

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00:07:18

Week of August 24, 2020

MMWR Weekly Briefing ·

2020/08/31

This week, MMWR published three success stories about efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19. Two reports describe successes in settings serving groups of children, and one report is about successes in nursing homes in West Virginia. MMWR also published a report about a monitoring system that aided health officials with decision making and reopening in Kentucky.

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00:07:18

Week of August 17, 2020

MMWR Weekly Briefing ·

2020/08/24

In this week's episode, Dr. Kent highlights reports about COVID-19 hotspot counties in the United States, workplace outbreaks in Utah, the rate of COVID-19 infection among American Indian and Alaska Natives, and strategies to slow the spread of COVID-19 in correctional facilities. A theme woven throughout these reports is that long-standing health and social inequities have resulted in increased risk for infection, severe illness, and death from COVID-19 among communities of color.

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00:07:13

Week of August 10, 2020

MMWR Weekly Briefing ·

2020/08/23

In this week's episode, Dr. Kent highlights reports about the impact of COVID-19 on children, nursing homes, and the mental health of Americans

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00:05:38

Week of August 3, 2020

MMWR Weekly Briefing ·

2020/08/23

In this week's episode, Dr. Charlotte Kent highlights reports about an outbreak of COVID-19 at an overnight youth camp, use of a novel automated technology to monitor contacts of COVID-19 patients, health outcomes among individuals who swallowed hand sanitizer containing methanol, and COVID-19 in meat processing facilities in two midwestern states.

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00:06:17

Week of July 27, 2020

MMWR Weekly Briefing ·

2020/08/03

In this week's episode, Dr. Charlotte Kent highlighted reports about how long COVID-19 symptoms last in adults who haven't been hospitalized, efforts to keep voters safe during an election in Milwaukee, and good news about rebounds in vaccination among children in New York City.

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00:07:20

Week of July 20, 2020

MMWR Weekly Briefing ·

2020/07/27

In this week's episode, Dr. Charlotte Kent highlighted two reports on the seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection as well as another report looking at underlying conditions associated with severe illness from COVID-19 at the county level.

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