Mitchell Katz, MD, president and chief executive officer of New York City Health + Hospitals, and former Los Angeles County health agency director, discusses causes, similarities, and differences between the spike of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in the 2 cities.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted scientists to use adaptive research designs to evaluate potential treatments simultaneously and efficiently, increasing the likelihood that patients will receive treatments most likely to be effective for them. Lennie Derde, MD, of University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands and JAMA Associate Editor Christopher W. Seymour, MD, of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center join JAMA's Q&A series to discuss the latest in critical care management of COVID-19 patients and emerging treatment strategies and therapies. Recorded January 13, 2021.

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Arnold S. Monto, MD, chaired the US Food and Drug Administration's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) meetings in December that led to Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines. He joins JAMA's Q&A series from the University of Michigan School of Public Health to discuss experience to date with the 2 products and what's next in vaccine development. Recorded January 11, 2021.

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Aaloke Mody, MD, joins JAMA Network Open Digital Media Editor, Seth Trueger, MD, MPH, to discuss a cross-sectional study that uses Lorenz curves as a metric for quantifying racial inequities in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) testing. Read the article here: https://ja.ma/2MOMjWG.

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Gregory Armstrong, MD, director of the Advanced Molecular Detection Program for the CDC, explains what is currently known about the new mutations of SARS-CoV-2.

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Adam Lauring, MD, PhD, from the University of Michigan Division of Infectious Diseases, an expert on the evolutionary biology of RNA viruses, explains the new genetic variants recently found in SARS-CoV-2 and their importance.

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Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz, PhD, MPH, joins JAMA Network Open Digital Media Editor, Seth Trueger, MD, MPH, to discuss a survey study describing individuals’ concerns regarding violence in the context of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, experiences of pandemic-related unfair treatment, prevalence of and reasons for firearm acquisition, and changes in firearm storage practices due to the pandemic. Read the article here: https://ja.ma/2X7lC1x.

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Elderly persons and residents of nursing homes have been the hardest hit in the COVID-19 pandemic. Harvard geriatrician Sharon Inouye, MD, discusses the effect COVID-19 has had on nursing homes and what should be done about it.

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