Overview:

This episode reviews the current news updates of this pandemic as well as recently updated guidelines and medical literature. In addition, our moderator, Dr. David Banach, speaks with Roza Tammer, Infection Control Epidemiologist at Oregon Health Authority, about the ways healthcare epidemiologists in settings like university hospitals interact with their state public health epidemiologists. They discuss how they each work as epidemiologists in their roles, how they intersect with one another, what COVID has taught them, and ways to work together after the pandemic.

Speakers:

- Roza Tammer, MPH, CIC

- David Banach, MD, MPH (moderator)

- Jennifer Hanrahan, DO, MSc (news update)

Sources from news update:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommendations/immuno.html

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2108891?query=featured_home

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2782982

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