Clinical Updates | April 26, 2021
Date of Presentation: April 26, 2021
Type: Past Presentation
Audience: Clinical
Program: Virology
Keywords: #covid clinical updates #HIV and COVID-19
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 treatment, a guideline to limit indoor airborne transmission of COVID-19 as well as an indoor safety guideline tool and an update on HIV and COVID-19.
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)
- Effect of Ivermectin on Time to Resolution of Symptoms Among Adults With Mild COVID-19 (JAMA)
- A guideline to limit indoor airborne transmission of COVID-19 (PNAS)
- Indoor Safety Guideline Calculator (MIT)
- Clinical Outcomes and Immunologic Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in People With Human Immunodeficiency Virus (Inf Dis)
- The interplay between HIV and COVID-19: summary of the data and responses to date (Cur Opinion on HIV/AIDS)
- Incidence and Severity of COVID-19 in HIV-Positive Persons Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy : A Cohort Study (Ann Intern Med)
- Risk Factors for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Death in a Population Cohort Study from the Western Cape Province, South Africa (Clinical Inf Dis)
- What to Know About HIV and COVID-19 (CDC)
Date added: April 26, 2021