COVID-19 Clinical Update. Questions about testing, chloroquine toxicity, duration of immunity and reinfection, and what to expect next are gripping the US as the novel coronavirus spreads. Preeti Malani MD, Professor of Medicine and Chief Health Officer at the University of Michigan discusses recent developments in a live conversation with JAMA Editor Howard Bauchner. Originally streamed on April 6, 2020.
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1:55 Overview of Dr Bauchner’s interview with Dr Malani
2:01 Case-fatality rate
4:50 CDC’s changing views on masks – what should we make of the change?
7:45 Should or shouldn’t I wear a mask?
8:46 Medical workers
9:49 PCR tests, should we trust the accuracy?
11:29 Can you become reinfected?
13:18 Serology and the likelihood of antibody testing (who is immune/ has antibodies to the virus) and being able to go to work if proven immune.
16:01 How long can we assume we are immune for, given the data we have.
17:36 How is COVID-19 spreading? Droplets versus aerolization spread. Coughs and sneezes or just through the air?
21:00 How long does the coronavirus live on packages, newspapers, groceries?
23:50 Infected tiger at the Bronx Zoo. Animal responses to COVID
24:52 Discussion on study of viral load found in stool/ 14 day quarantine still to be trusted?
29:51 Health care workers
33:04 What will work for treatment of COVID. Hydroxychloroquine discussion. Remdesivir trials.
35:25 Social distancing, how long will it go on?
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