Community Pulse
Download on the App Store

Community Pulse episodes

  • Reemerging stay-at-home orders across the U.S.
    • COVID-19 infections are soaring. Lockdowns could be coming. A list of restrictions in your state. (USA Today)
    • See Coronavirus Restrictions and Mask Mandates for All 50 States (New York Times)
    • Are The Risks Of Reopening Schools Exaggerated? (NPR)
    • Low-Income Children and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the US (JAMA Pediatrics)
    • As COVID-19 soars in many communities, schools attempt to find ways through the crisis (Science Magazine)
    • Blue states and red states are both doing school reopenings wrong (Vox)
    • Mask mandate issued for all of Boone County (Columbia Tribune)
    • School District Responses to COVID-19 Closures - CRPE Tracker
    • Show Me Strong Recovery Plan COVID-19 School District Tracker

    32 min
  • Health justice strategies for combating the pandemic

    Further reading/resources:

    • Health Justice Strategies to Combat the Pandemic: Eliminating Discrimination, Poverty, and Health Disparities During and After COVID-19 (Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics)
    • The Institute for Healing Justice and Equity at SLU
    • Professor Yearby's publications
    • Are Cities and Counties Ready to Use Racial Equity Tools to Influence Policy?


    33 min
  • Hospital capacity, animal transmission, and Biden's COVID plan

    Further reading/resources: 

    • Covid Infections in Animals Prompt Scientific Concern (New York Times)
    • BHC Med Staff COVID Alert: November 6
    • Pfizer’s Early Data Shows Vaccine Is More Than 90% Effective (New York Times)
    • The Biden-Harris plan to beat COVID-19
      • Vivek Murthy Wikipedia Page
      • David A. Kessler Wikipedia Page
      • Marcella Nunez-Smith Wikipedia Page



    30 min
  • News round-up: long-term COVID symptoms, household transmission, and more

    Further reading/resources:

    • Transmission of SARS-COV-2 Infections in Households — Tennessee and Wisconsin, April–September 2020 (CDC)
    • One in 20 people likely to suffer from ‘Long COVID’, but who are they? (COVID Symptom Study, UK)
    • Attributes and predictors of Long-COVID: analysis of COVID cases and their symptoms collected by the Covid Symptoms Study App (medRxiv)
    • Broadly-targeted autoreactivity is common in severe SARS-CoV-2 Infection (medRxiv)
    • Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from COVID-19 relative to controls: An N=84,285 online study (medRxiv)
    • Risk of hospital admission with coronavirus disease 2019 in healthcare workers and their households: nationwide linkage cohort study (BMJ)
    • Association between SARS-CoV-2 infection, exposure risk and mental health among a cohort of essential retail workers in the USA FREE (BMJ)



    30 min
  • County-level responses to the pandemic in Mid-Missouri
    Host Dr. Elizabeth Allemann is joined by Lynelle Phillips, Assistant Professor at MU and Extension Nurse Specialist with the Department of Public Health, and Kara Clovis, graduate student in public health at the University of Missouri. They discuss recent research about CARES Act funding distribution and mask ordinances in Central Missouri counties.
    31 min

About Community Pulse

From the publisher's feed

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…