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 November 23, 2020
This week, MMWR published five reports. One describes four ethical principles that will guide decision-making on how COVID-19 vaccines will be allocated once vaccines are authorized or approved. The …
00:07:05 |
Thu 03 Dec 2020
Week of November 16, 2020
This week, MMWR published three reports and a new feature called COVID-19 Stats. One report demonstrates how frequent testing combined with preventive behaviors limited the spread of COVID-19 on a un…
00:08:55 |
Mon 23 Nov 2020
Week of November 9, 2020
This week, MMWR published five reports. Two reports show how social gatherings likely contributed to the rapid spread of COVID-19 in rural communities. The third report looks at hospital readmissions…
00:08:55 |
Thu 19 Nov 2020
Week of November 2, 2020
This week, MMWR published seven reports. One looks at how COVID-19 spreads within households. Two reports underscore the importance of counseling pregnant women about their risk for severe COVID-19 i…
00:10:34 |
Mon 09 Nov 2020
Week of October 26, 2020
This week, MMWR published seven reports. Two reports examine the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare workers. Another report focuses on the increasing role of telehealth in delivering healthcare during …
00:09:43 |
Sat 07 Nov 2020
Week of October 19, 2020
This week, MMWR published seven reports. One report compares adverse outcomes from patients hospitalized with COVID-19 versus flu. Two reports examine deaths during the pandemic including COVID-19-as…
00:10:08 |
Mon 26 Oct 2020
Week of October 12, 2020
This week, MMWR published four reports. Two looked at factors influencing the risk of exposure to COVID-19 among young adults in a Wisconsin county, and how younger adults may be spreading the virus …
00:07:21 |
Mon 19 Oct 2020
Week of October 5, 2020
This week, MMWR published a total of four reports. Reports in this week's issue looked at a COVID-19 outbreak linked to a three-week family gathering, successful efforts to slow the spread of COVID-1…
00:07:23 |
Mon 12 Oct 2020
Week of September 28, 2020
This week, MMWR published a series of reports describing the role that young adults have played in the spread of COVID-19. This week's issue also looked at COVID-19 among school-aged children and CDC…
00:06:51 |
Mon 05 Oct 2020
Week of September 21, 2020
This week, MMWR published four reports. One describes the likely role of younger adults in the spread of COVID-19 and another describes characteristics of more than 100,000 healthcare workers in the …
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Mon 28 Sep 2020
Week of September 14, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted Americans of all stages of life from babies and young children, to pregnant women, to older adults. This week, MMWR published a total of eight COVID-19 reports. The…
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Mon 21 Sep 2020
Week of September 7, 2020
This week, MMWR published reports about how adults with COVID-19 were more likely to have dined at a restaurant before getting sick, the number of adults delaying or avoiding medical care due to COVI…
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Mon 14 Sep 2020
MMWR Weekly COVID-19 Trailer
Charlotte Kent, Editor-in-Chief of CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report introduces the MMWR's Weekly COVID-19 Briefing series.
00:00:22 |
Tue 08 Sep 2020
Week of August 31, 2020
This week, MMWR published reports about COVID-19 cases going undetected among frontline U.S. health care workers, how stay-at-home orders influenced behaviors in communities, and prescribing patterns…
00:00:22 |
Tue 08 Sep 2020
Week of August 24, 2020
This week, MMWR published three success stories about efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19. Two reports describe successes in settings serving groups of children, and one report is about successes …
00:07:18 |
Mon 31 Aug 2020
Week of August 17, 2020
In this week's episode, Dr. Kent highlights reports about COVID-19 hotspot counties in the United States, workplace outbreaks in Utah, the rate of COVID-19 infection among American Indian and Alaska …
00:07:18 |
Mon 24 Aug 2020
Week of August 10, 2020
In this week's episode, Dr. Kent highlights reports about the impact of COVID-19 on children, nursing homes, and the mental health of Americans
00:07:13 |
Sun 23 Aug 2020
Week of August 3, 2020
In this week's episode, Dr. Charlotte Kent highlights reports about an outbreak of COVID-19 at an overnight youth camp, use of a novel automated technology to monitor contacts of COVID-19 patients, h…
00:05:38 |
Sun 23 Aug 2020
Week of July 27, 2020
In this week's episode, Dr. Charlotte Kent highlighted reports about how long COVID-19 symptoms last in adults who haven't been hospitalized, efforts to keep voters safe during an election in Milwauk…
00:06:17 |
Mon 03 Aug 2020
Week of July 20, 2020
In this week's episode, Dr. Charlotte Kent highlighted two reports on the seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection as well as another report looking at underlying conditions associated with severe illn…
00:07:20 |
Mon 27 Jul 2020
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