CDC Aerosol Updates | COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines | Post COVID Care | May 10, 2021
Date of Presentation: May 10, 2021
Type: Past Presentation
Audience: Clinical
Program: Virology
Keywords: #aerosol transmission #covid clinical updates #treatment guidelines
In this presentation, Dr. Jorge Mera, Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services, shares valuable COVID-19 clinical updates, with a focus on recent CDC changes around aerosol transmission, the latest treatment guidelines, and post COVID-19 care.
Recording:
Presented by:
Dr. Jorge Mera
Jorge Mera, MD, FACP, is the Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services (CNHS), the largest tribally operated health care system in the United States. He completed his fellowship in Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas and is Board Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) in Infectious Diseases. During recent years Jorge’s efforts have been dedicated to organizing the Cherokee Nation HCV elimination program, as well as the HIV/HCV ECHO project. He is also the Director of the HIV clinic since 2012 and the Principal Investigator of the End the HIV Epidemic for the CNHS. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine of the Oklahoma State University Health Science Center and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.
Resources Provided:
- Clinical Updates (Presentation Slides)
- A guideline to limit indoor airborne transmission of COVID-19 (PNAS)
- SARS-CoV-2 transmission (CDC)
- COVID-19 illness in native and immunosuppressed states: A clinical–therapeutic staging proposal (J Heart Lung Transplant)
- Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Monoclonal Antibodies (NIH)
- COVID Treatment Guidelines (NIH)
- Kinase Inhibitors: Baricitinib and Other Janus Kinase Inhibitors, and Bruton’s Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors (NIH)
- COVID-19 rapid guideline: managing the long-term effects of COVID-19 (UK NICE)
- Post-acute COVID-19 syndrome (Nature)
- Epidemiology of post-COVID syndrome following hospitalization with coronavirus: a retrospective cohort study (medRxiv)
- COVID-19 Recovery: Team-Based Care Toolkit (ACP)
- COVID-19: Evaluation and management of adults following acute viral illness (UpToDate)
- COVID-19 diagnosis coding explained in a flowchart (AAFP)
Date added: May 10, 2021