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 April 19, 2021
This episode discusses five MMWR COVID-19 reports. Two reports show that COVID-19 vaccination was effective in preventing illness among residents and staff in skilled nursing facilities. Another is a…
00:06:24 |
Thu 29 Apr 2021
Week of April 12, 2021
This episode discusses six MMWR COVID-19 reports. One describes how leaving the middle seat vacant on airplanes could reduce exposure to COVID-19. Two describe higher proportions of emergency departm…
00:06:34 |
Thu 22 Apr 2021
Week of April 5, 2021
This episode discusses six MMWR COVID-19 reports. One report describes an indoor bar opening event that led to a COVID-19 outbreak in a rural Illinois community. Another details how participation in …
00:08:23 |
Thu 15 Apr 2021
Week of March 29, 2021
This episode discusses six MMWR COVID-19 reports. One report highlights the effectiveness of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in preventing COVID-19 among health care and other essential workers. Two reports s…
00:07:08 |
Tue 06 Apr 2021
Week of March 22, 2021
This episode discusses four MMWR COVID-19 reports. One report describes how the impact of COVID-19 on communities of color changed during the pandemic. The second report highlights a CDC HIV program …
00:07:13 |
Tue 30 Mar 2021
Week of March 15, 2021
This episode discusses nine MMWR COVID-19 reports. Three reports look at COVID-19 vaccination, including real-world effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, vaccine series completion, a…
00:10:21 |
Fri 26 Mar 2021
Week of March 8, 2021
This episode discusses three MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first one presents the link between elevated body mass index and the risk for severe COVID-19 illness, especially for people younger than 65. A…
00:04:45 |
Tue 16 Mar 2021
Week of March 1, 2021
This episode discusses six MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first one describes recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for Johnson and Johnson's Janssen COVID-19 vaccine. Two…
00:09:31 |
Fri 12 Mar 2021
Week of February 22
This episode discusses five MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first one describes the early success of a national COVID-19 vaccine campaign in Israel. Two reports detail COVID-19 outbreak investigations in …
00:09:20 |
Tue 02 Mar 2021
Week of February 15, 2021
This episode discusses six MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first two describe the detection and spread of COVID-19 variants in the United States and internationally. The third looks at data from the first…
00:08:49 |
Tue 23 Feb 2021
Week of February 8, 2021
This episode discusses five MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first highlights how wearing a tighter-fitting mask can help slow the spread of COVID-19. Two reports detail mask use among students at schools …
00:06:59 |
Thu 18 Feb 2021
Week of February 1, 2021
This episode discusses five MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first describes the demographics of people who have received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine. The second report describes the percentage of r…
00:08:10 |
Tue 09 Feb 2021
Week of January 25, 2021
This week's episode covers seven MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first describes the small number of severe allergic reactions after people received the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. The second report present…
00:12:46 |
Tue 02 Feb 2021
Week of January 18, 2021
This week's episode covers four MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first describes the rise of new variants of the virus that causes COVID-19. The second report highlights U.S. vaccination coverage data amon…
00:08:04 |
Tue 26 Jan 2021
Week of January 11, 2021
This week's episode covers four MMWR COVID-19 reports. In the first, I'll describe how lapses in infection control likely led to an outbreak of a multidrug resistant threat in a hospital's COVID-19 u…
00:07:40 |
Thu 21 Jan 2021
Week of January 4, 2021
This week's episode covers five MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first describes that severe reactions following Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination appear to be very rare. Another report describes how U.…
00:08:13 |
Tue 12 Jan 2021
Weeks of December 21 and 28, 2020
This week's episode covers six MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first discusses interim recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices or ACIP the second COVID-19 vaccine available u…
00:09:46 |
Tue 05 Jan 2021
Week of December 14, 2020
This week's episode covers six MMWR COVID-19 reports. In the first, ACIP issued an interim recommendation for use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in people 16 years and older. The second repo…
00:10:10 |
Mon 21 Dec 2020
Week of December 7, 2020
In this week's episode, I'll discuss five MMWR COVID-19 reports. One report outlines a combination of ten actions that individuals, families, and communities can take to save lives, and speed up comm…
00:09:30 |
Mon 14 Dec 2020
Week of November 30, 2020
This week, MMWR published four reports. One report describes ACIP recommendations for the priority populations for the initial phase of the COVID-19 vaccination program in the United States. Another …
00:06:16 |
Thu 10 Dec 2020
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