S1 E18 - Antibody tests, dexamethasone and the coming 2nd wave
NB Hot Topics Podcast
English - June 19, 2020 12:00 - 19 minutes - 13.3 MBEducation Health & Fitness Medicine education medicine general practice health hot topics gp update nurse Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 17 - Race, riots and inequality; faked hydroxychlorquine research; face masks; NEWS in GP; liraglutide for childhood obesity
Next Episode: Episode 19 - Immunity and T cells, Post-COVID Syndrome
In our latest Hot Topics podcast, Neal Tucker discusses the latest news and research for primary care.
This week a firm focus on coronavirus once again. We talk about antibody tests and why there seems such discrepancies between the real world results in you and I and the tests' supposed accuracy. We talk about dexamethasone and the implications for primary care. And we discuss the possibility of a 2nd wave of coronavirus, how this will our jobs in primary care and what we can do to keep ourselves happy.
References
St George's Antibody Data
Recovery Trial Dexamethasone Results
Lancet Report in Iran's 2nd wave
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