COVID-19 Daily

Sales of Christmas trees are booming this year, the Fauci Effect is driving up applications to medical schools, and COVID surges are wrecking contact tracing efforts.One of the many negative effects of the pandemic is that it has made Americans even more sedentary - and the effects of this are long-lasting. With the continued rising number of Coronavirus cases, more people are staying at home, working remotely, and getting less exercise. Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Zvi Pearlstein is sharing with us today why stretching and mindfulness are more crucial than ever in the sedentary COVID Era. 

This will also be the last of our COVID Weekly episodes. Thanks for joining us throughout this crazy year - and please join us in the new year as we transition to a broader daily news program! 

As always, feel free to reach out to us at any time with questions or ideas at [email protected].

How to have fun socializing in the cold, 911 is reaching its breaking point, and the CDC says 450,000 U.S. deaths are possible by February.This holiday season, parents are facing the difficult decision of whether or not to travel to see their loved ones. Even before the pandemic, holiday travel with children can often be a stressful ordeal. But now, parents will encounter additional demands to keep their family safe. Dr. Gary Kirkilas is a pediatrician in Arizona as well as a member of the AAP Committee on Communications and Media and will help us navigate this upcoming, usually busy, travel seasonAs always, feel free to reach out to us at any time with questions or ideas at [email protected].

More Americans are now willing to get vaccine, more kids are getting the coronavirus, and COVID long hawkers have another obstacle ahead of them: health insurance. The number of children who have tested positive for COVID-19 is expected to surpass 1,000,000 very soon. Which is scary for parents especially as we plan for school breaks and winter holidays.Dr. Alison Tothy sat down recently on the podcast Healthy Children, she is a pediatric emergency medicine physician and a spokesperson for the AAP.Hear the rest of this conversation with host Melanie Cole on the Healthy Children podcast, wherever you listen to your other podcasts.As always, feel free to reach out to us at any time with questions or ideas at [email protected].

The growth of COVID-19 conspiracy theories is eroding belief in safety measures, cooking fatigue sets in as the pandemic drags on, and what are the rules of a Zoom wedding?Although our celebrations will be very different this year, there is one part of the festive season that has not changed: Holiday Stress. People around the globe are still taking on a dizzying array of seasonal demands like shopping for gifts, baking cookies, and decorating.This year they now have the added stress of navigating the holidays in the age of COVID-19. We have come to accept festive stress as part of the holiday season - much to the detriment of our wellness and our brain health. According to Neuroscience Expert, Dr. Patrick Porter, managing this stress is imperative, especially in the age of COVID-19.He is back on the show today to share tips people can use to tame festive stress, reduce symptoms of anxiety, and improve mental and physical wellness this holiday season. And learn more about Braintap here. As always, feel free to reach out to us at any time with questions or ideas at [email protected].

COVID patients are also being diagnosed with mental illness, new strains of the virus are spreading faster, and the best ways to clean your cloth mask. This year, Americans have been more vigilant than ever before about personal health and hygiene. As the cold and flu season approaches, we are wearing masks, washing our hands, and using hand sanitizer more frequently. But our hands are not the only parts of our body that we should be sanitizing.   Germs can spread via respiratory droplets that land in the nose or transfer from hands to the nose. Sanitizing the nose can help reduce the spread of germs and the risk of infection by interrupting the cycle of contamination between hands and nose.     Dr. Michael J. Manyak is a medical doctor, corporate medical executive as well as an author and gave us some tips on staying healthy this winter and cleaning our noses.As always, feel free to reach out to us at any time with questions or ideas at [email protected].

Telework has people fleeing big cities, CDC suggests you wear a mask inside your home if you start to feel sick, and the debate over Thanksgiving plans continues.Anxiety and dread about the state of the world right now are keeping many of us awake at night.Whether it's your health or your job, some aspect of COVID-19 is probably throwing you off and making it difficult to rest. But we hope you can find some comfort in knowing this is happening to SO many other people right now.Dr. Michael Awad is a fellowship-trained sleep surgeon and chief of sleep surgery at Northwestern Medicine and joined Dr. Holly Lucille on her Radio MD podcast Mindful Medicine to talk about sleep apnea, how sleep can build immunity, what to do when the world feels out of our control, and he tells us a bit more about this newer field he's in: sleep surgery.As always, feel free to reach out to us at any time with questions or ideas at [email protected].

Coronavirus can survive on the skin for 9 hours, Four U.S. Counties Remain COVID-free, and does Vitamin D help fight severe COVID cases?Can you believe we're going on 9 months of this pandemic mess? As we head into winter, it seems like some people are starting to head back to restaurants, but a LOT have been getting into cooking and baking.Well, today we're talking to Chef Abbie Gelman, who was recently on the RadioMD Podcast HER. She has been a Registered Dietitian for more than a decade, and a chef for twice as long as that. She talks with Dr. Pam Peeke about diving into comfort food when the world gets crazy, batch cooking for your future self, changing your diet for boosting immunity, and navigating the grocery store in a pandemic.Hear the full episode on RadioMD or any podcast platform. As always, feel free to reach out to us at any time with questions or ideas at [email protected].

Dozens of mammals at risk of COVID infection, COVID biggest cause of police deaths this year, and Dr. Fauci says social distancing protocols will most likely last until 2022. Well, colleges and universities are completely changed during this pandemic, with no parties and no classes in person in most places. In an episode of another RadioMD podcast Healthy Children, our host Melanie Cole talked with Dr. Yolanda Reid Chassiakos, about managing a kid in college at this time. She is the Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLAHear this full episode and more on Healthy Children, found on all podcast platforms. As always, feel free to reach out to us at any time with questions or ideas at [email protected].

COVID probably isn't seasonal, can you catch COVID on a plane, and Black Friday won't look the same this year most likely. We worry so much about getting the virus but for those who have had it and recovered, there is a whole new world of struggle on the other side of COVID.Ashok Gupta is the director of the Gupta Program, a neuroplasticity and holistic health program for a range of chronic conditions, and is here today to tell us his thoughts on Post COVID Syndrome. Find out more about this work and sign up for the coronavirus challenge here.As always, feel free to reach out to us at any time with questions or ideas at [email protected].

Remdesivir 'has little or no effect' on survival, males dominate COVID-19 decision making, and nitric oxide shows promise as an antiviral treatment.It's October which means it's the spooky season with or without the pandemic. So how are we supposed to handle Halloween with social distancing protocols still in place? Dr. Deborah Gilboa, also known as Dr. G is a youth development and resilience expert & family physician and will give us some tips for navigating the holiday this year.As always, feel free to reach out to us at any time with questions or ideas at [email protected].