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Community Pulse episodes

  • The Effectiveness of Stay-At-Home Orders

    Links to articles that were discussed in today's show:

    Cell phone data tracking: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/02/us/coronavirus-social-distancing.html


    Missouri Counties Stay at Home Orders: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/59135fbe6eb24581b8d5dd78964ec1e4 


    Stay at home orders across the country (at statewide level): https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-stay-at-home-order.html 


    Matthew Holloway’s Missouri graphic for today (at least this one is fun to follow personally): https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10101808178982242&set=a.645418140332&type=3&theater 


    Boone County’s COVID page: https://www.como.gov/coronavirus/ 


    State of MO COVID page: https://health.mo.gov/living/healthcondiseases/communicable/novel-coronavirus/ 


    NYT National Map (which now includes rate of doubling): https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html 


    John Hopkins Case Tracking globally: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html 

    27 min
  • Why Wear A Mask?
    On today's edition, Dr. Elizabeth Allemann and Sarah Williams, social worker with a background in community preparedness, discuss protective masks, including N-95 masks, surgical masks, and homemade masks.
    25 min
  • Answering Listener Questions: Preparedness, Pets, and Hugs
    Dr. Elizabeth Allemann discusses practical ways people can prepare for times of crisis, and what we can do to prepare in during this growing pandemic. She also takes listener questions: Are indoor/outdoor pets a risk for transmitting COVID-19? Is it safe to hug someone outside your household?
    22 min
  • Airspace Transmission
    Dr. Elizabeth Allemann discusses how the virus can linger in airspace as an aerosol or droplets and answers listener questions: If you’ve been exposed to and contracted the virus, how long will it take for symptoms to appear (if at all), and at what point does one become contagious? Can you continue to test positive for COVID-19 after recovering from the virus? Now that we have been asked to shelter in our homes, is it safe to take a walk down the street, or do we have to keep entirely inside?
    21 min
  • Emergency Preparedness
    For this segment, host Dr. Elizabeth Allemann is joined by Conne Burnham, Emergency Management Coordinator for Mizzou Extension, to discuss emergency preparedness in the time of coronavirus.
    21 min
  • Access Local Testing
    For this segment, host Dr. Elizabeth Allemann is joined by social worker Sarah Williams to discuss the Boone County stay-at-home order, access to local testing, and health practices to boost the immune system.
    24 min

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Community Pulse is a special report on the unfolding coronavirus situation in mid-Missouri featuring local family physician Elizabeth Allemann, M.D. and public health advocate Ginny Chadwick. Catch it…