Influenza Perspective

• Paxlovid Rebound: What Is Happening?   Dr Paul Auwaerter discusses Paxlovid rebound and the use of investigational drugs.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, May 13, 2022
• Online Physician Reviews: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly More patients are finding their healthcare providers online on the basis of physician reviews and ratings. But what if those results are completely misleading or inaccurate?
  Medscape Blogs, May 11, 2022
• Our Biggest Mistakes During the COVID-19 Pandemic   Bioethicist Art Caplan shares his list of mistakes made and lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, May 04, 2022
• How Do We Distinguish Between Viral and Bacterial Meningitis? Early diagnosis is crucial for providing the appropriate treatment for meningitis. High-sensitivity and specificity molecular techniques can help distinguish between bacterial and viral etiologies.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, April 25, 2022
• Animal Reservoirs, Immunocompromised Hosts: COVID Dangers Ahead   Stanford's Benjamin Pinsky on the potential for even more transmissible and pathogenic versions of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to arise.
  Medscape, April 21, 2022
• I Ditched My White Coat During COVID Lots of medical providers have chosen to forgo formal attire and white coats for more casual dress at work. But has this contributed to a level of informality that can affect patient care?
  Medscape Blogs, March 23, 2022
• COVID-19 and the Heart: Is Cardiology Ready?   Robert Harrington, MD, interviews Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, about his recent paper in Nature Medicine focused on the long-term cardiovascular effects of COVID-19.
  theheart.org on Medscape, March 14, 2022
• Post–COVID-19 Headache and Migraine: What's the Connection?   Dr Deena Kuruvilla discusses the relationship between post–COVID-19 headache and migraine.
  American Headache Society and Medscape, March 11, 2022
• Why Test to Treat is Imperative Now   Epidemiologist-engineer Michael Mina thinks diagnostics belong in the hands of the people.
  Medscape, March 09, 2022
• Oh, The Places I Didn't Go! Traveling for work during the pandemic had to be done, but what about trips for other reasons? One ID doc weighs in on 2 years of canceled itineraries, missed connections, and unexpected destinations.
  Medscape Blogs, March 09, 2022
• The UK Stopped All Pandemic Control. Let's See What Happens Now Keep calm and forget COVID-19? The UK and other countries in Europe have decided to stop isolation and practically all measures to control COVID-19. Is that a good idea?
  Medscape Blogs, March 01, 2022
• Making Sense of the ID Fellowship Match Why don't more students and residents want to specialize in infectious diseases? One expert takes a deeper look.
  Medscape Blogs, February 23, 2022
• Adult Vaccines 2022: Who Needs What, and When?   Dr Sandra Fryhofer hits the highlights of the 2022 adult immunization schedule, just released by ACIP.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, February 17, 2022
• Boost Now for COVID or Wait?   Drs Robert Glatter, Paul Offit, and Paul Sax discuss the current data about boosters for COVID-19.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, February 11, 2022
• Organ Transplantation: Unvaccinated Need Not Apply Outrage over the denial of transplant organs to the unvaccinated is an opportunity to educate people on the complexities of organ allocation, writes Melissa Walton-Shirley, channeling her inner Ted Lasso.
  theheart.org on Medscape, February 10, 2022
• Reid Blackwelder Is Still Hopeful About Primary Care Two family docs discuss the challenges facing primary care in a post-pandemic world.
  Georgetown University Family Medicine, February 04, 2022
• Cognitive Impairment in Long COVID The COVID-19 pandemic involves more than just an acute infection -- it's also about the disease's long-term effects.
  Medscape Blogs, February 03, 2022
• The Great Resignation Among Healthcare Providers An ID specialist explains why she quit her job but chose not to leave the healthcare profession completely
  Medscape Blogs, January 26, 2022
• Is This the End of the Road for COVID-19? We've all heard it recently, but is it really time to stop worrying and learn to live with COVID-19?
  Medscape Blogs, January 25, 2022
• COVID Is a Disaster. It Could Have Been Worse.   F. Perry Wilson muses on how the COVID pandemic might have been even worse. What if kids had been more vulnerable than adults? What if the vaccines hadn't worked?
  Medscape, January 25, 2022