Infectious disease specialist Dr. Paul Carson, MD and philosopher Anthony Flood, PhD, both from North Dakota State University, talk about the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic and the lessons we’ve learned from the medical and social response to the crisis, and they lay out the arguments they make about necessary and unnecessary precautions in their new paper “COVID-19 Policymaking in a Country Divided: A Path Toward Unity Through Catholic Social Teaching.”
CDC Excess Deaths Data: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation: http://www.healthdata.org/
Video showing how droplets spread in air after a sneeze: https://edhub.ama-assn.org/jn-learning/video-player/18357411
Japanese study of microdroplets after a sneeze or cough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2azcn7MqOU
University of Nebraska demo of masking effects on micro-droplets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbAzUUtqbiU
Image of bacterial growth on a petri dish from masked and unmasked activities like sneezing, coughing, talking, and singing: https://twitter.com/richdavisphd/status/1276629360212979712/photo/1
Feature Interview (6:22) – Psychologist Dr. Robin Lynn Treptow talks about the life-changing effects of how expectations influence outcomes. She shares her own experiences of having a child with Trisomy 21 and how biases regarding the diagnosis made it difficult for her family to help her child t...
Feature Interview (6:22) – Infectious disease specialist Dr. Paul Carson and psychologist Dr. Peter Malinoski talk about the divergent responses to the growing number of mask mandates around the country in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Carson talks about some misconceptions and misinform...
Feature Interview (8:26) – Our specialty focus series continues with Dr. Anthony Oliva, who gives a behind the scenes look at what it’s like to be a general surgeon, how he chose his specialty, and some of the biggest challenges and rewards in his every day practice of medicine.
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