MMWR Weekly Briefing
This weekly podcast series summarizes the latest scientific information published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 7 minutes
- Episodes
- 184
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Week of December 11, 2023
This week, MMWR published reports on unintentional firearm injury deaths among children and teens, suicide rates by industry, occupation, and sex, and more.
00:07:03 |
Thu 28 Dec 2023
Week of November 13, 2023
This episode discusses four MMWR reports. First, lack of timely testing and inadequate treatment contributed to almost 90% of congenital syphilis cases in the U.S. in 2022. Second, chronic obstructiv…
00:07:29 |
Fri 15 Dec 2023
Week of December 4, 2023
This episode discusses four MMWR reports. First, prenatal care clinicians and fertility specialists should consider tuberculosis evaluations if their patients are from a country where tuberculosis is…
00:08:08 |
Thu 14 Dec 2023
Week of November 27, 2023
This episode discusses four MMWR reports. First, a new study finds at least 2 doses of COVID-19 vaccine are effective at reducing emergency
department visits and hospitalizations in young children. …
00:08:08 |
Fri 08 Dec 2023
Week of November 6, 2023
This episode discusses four MMWR reports. First, vaccination rates among kindergartners are still lower than before the COVID-19 pandemic. Second, 1 in 3 U.S. veterans has arthritis. Diagnosed arthri…
00:05:59 |
Wed 15 Nov 2023
Week of October 30, 2023
This episode discusses four MMWR reports. First, vaccination coverage among children remains high. However, disparities persist and are widening for some groups of children. Second, CDC issues new re…
00:08:22 |
Wed 08 Nov 2023
Week of October 23, 2023
This episode discusses four MMWR reports. First, routine vaccination coverage increased globally in 2022 but has yet to return to 2019 pre-pandemic levels. Second, CDC used early-warning surveillance…
00:07:45 |
Fri 03 Nov 2023
Week of October 16, 2023
This episode discusses four MMWR reports. First, hepatitis A vaccines prevent deaths, but they are still not reaching adults at highest risk. Second, the U.S. firearm homicide rate decreased in 2022,…
00:07:15 |
Fri 03 Nov 2023
Week of October 9, 2023
This episode discusses four MMWR reports. First, the flu hit children and teens hard last season. Second, CDC recommends the RSV vaccine during weeks 32 through 36 of pregnancy to protect young infan…
00:06:18 |
Wed 18 Oct 2023
Week of October 2, 2023
First, two CDC studies confirm RSV causes serious illness in older adults and highlight the potential benefit of RSV vaccines in preventing severe illness in this population. Next, adults 65 years an…
00:06:59 |
Mon 16 Oct 2023
Week of September 25, 2023
This week, MMWR published four reports that add to evidence that COVID-19 vaccinations during pregnancy help protect patients and newborns from serious illness and hospitalization. However, pregnancy…
00:06:58 |
Mon 16 Oct 2023
Week of September 4, 2023
This episode discusses four MMWR reports. First, despite very low risk of getting malaria in the U.S., locally acquired malaria cases reported in Florida and Texas highlight importance of quick diagn…
00:06:54 |
Thu 14 Sep 2023
Week of August 28, 2023
This episode discusses four MMWR reports. The most recent data from 2020 and 2021 were examined to determine the percentage of older adults who reported falling during the previous year and unintenti…
00:06:57 |
Thu 14 Sep 2023
Week of August 21, 2023
This episode discusses four MMWR reports. First, West Nile virus continues to be the most common mosquito-borne disease in the U.S., with almost 3,000 cases reported in 2021. Second, CDC releases its…
00:07:22 |
Tue 05 Sep 2023
Week of August 14, 2023
This episode discusses four MMWR reports. First, a norovirus outbreak with more than 300 cases in Illinois is linked to an ill worker who continued working while sick. Second, COVID-19 vaccines prote…
00:06:26 |
Thu 24 Aug 2023
Week of August 7, 2023
This episode discusses four MMWR reports. First, the percentage of adults reporting long COVID has decreased. However, 1 in 4 with long COVID reported significant impact to daily activities. Next, pa…
00:06:43 |
Tue 08 Aug 2023
Week of July 24, 2023
This episode discusses four MMWR reports. First, a tick bite-associated allergy known as alpha-gal syndrome has become an emerging clinical and public health concern; however, many clinicians are una…
00:06:14 |
Sat 05 Aug 2023
Weeks of July 10 and July 17, 2023
First, cannabis-involved emergency department visits among children, teens, and young adults increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Second, ongoing testing at a large school district in Missouri fou…
00:08:11 |
Sat 05 Aug 2023
Week of July 3, 2023
This episode discusses four MMWR reports. First, the cost of birth defect-associated hospitalizations among patients younger than 65 totaled $22 billion in 2019. Second, increased international effor…
00:06:04 |
Tue 11 Jul 2023
Week of June 26, 2023
This episode discusses four MMWR reports. First, breakthrough cures for hepatitis C still fail to reach most Americans who need them. A transformative national response is needed. Second, xylazine mi…
00:08:36 |
Thu 06 Jul 2023
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