Healthy Dialogue

Coronavirus testing will help countries manage coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) but will raise questions about how to counsel patients about their test results. The CDC's Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases Jay C. Butler, MD, talks with JAMA Editor Howard Bauchner about what to advise healthy patients with positive PCR results, sick patients with negative test results, exposed health care workers, and more.

Physicians in Lombardy, Italy, have been overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients requiring critical care. Based on an existing ECMO center network they developed an ICU network to rapidly identify, triage, and manage patients infected with SARS-2-CoV. Maurizio Cecconi, MD, of Humanitas University in Milan discusses the region's approach to the surge, including clinical and supply management, health care worker training and protection, and ventilation strategies, with JAMA Editor Howard Bauchner.

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Critical Care Utilization for the COVID-19 Outbreak in Lombardy, Italy: Early Experience and Forecast During an Emergency Response

Interview with Victor M. Montori, MD, MSC, author of When Guidelines Recommend Shared Decision-making

Coronavirus testing, mortality, vaccine development, containment vs mitigation, and more. JAMA Editor Howard Bauchner, MD, interviews US NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, MD, about the latest developments in SARS-CoV-2 science and global spread of infection.

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Interview with Michael J. Barry, MD, Task Force member and coauthor of Screening for Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Adolescents and Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Interview with Jonathan A. Patz, MD, MPH, author of A Low-Carbon Future Could Improve Global Health and Achieve Economic Benefits

Interview with Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., author of The Inevitable Reimagining of Medical Education

Interview with Chyke A Doubeni, MD, MPH, author of Screening for Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Interview with David Naylor, MD DPhil, author of The Evolution of Schools of Thought in Medicine: Healthy Tensions

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