A Covid-19 Update with Dr. Nick, Fred Goldstein, MS & Gregg Masters MPH
It's about the triple aim!
English - August 12, 2020 17:00 - 30 minutes - 26.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHealth & Fitness public health accountable care value based care aca health reform triple aim Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In the second installment of PopHealth Week's Covid-19 update (listen to first here), my guests included Nick van Terheyden, MD (@drnic1), Fred Goldstein, MS (@fsgoldstein) and Gregg Masters MPH (@2healthguru).
We provide an update on the Covid-19 pandemic including a novel approach to safe re-opens for business and educational institutions.
We also discuss the global and US specific stats including confirmed cases, deaths and where we stand on regional and national geo-cluster containment, and mitigation efforts including an update on the treatment and prevention (vaccine) horizon.
Dashboard via Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University:
Global Total Confirmed (as of 8/11/20)
Cases: 18,585,774
Deaths: 701,665
United States Total Confirmed
Cases: 4,775,621 25.6% share
Deaths: 156,906 22.3% share
This amidst a Covid-19 ‘balancing act’ factoring in the opposing forces of:
Outcome 1: Stop the pandemic (get R0 below 1.0 via usual public health measures to contain or mitigate spread).Outcome 2: Keep economy going (nobody working takes its toll on health and wellbeing)Outcome 3: Protect the hospital system from overwhelm (flatten the curve, our clinicians are exhausted).
We've a long way to go to see how this 'novel' coroniavirus chooses ultimately to run its course be be confronted by either effective treatment and/or prevention via one or more vaccines.
Stay tuned!
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