Public Health and CDC Updates | December 15, 2021
Date of Presentation: December 15, 2021
Type: Past Presentation
Program: Virology
Keywords: #covid-19 #diabetes #omicron #pregnancy #travel #vaccination #vaccine #variant
In this presentation, Dr. Eitan Bornstein, MD, ECHO faculty member and Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, provides a public health practice update and a number of valuable COVID-19 related resources produced by the CDC and FDA.
Recording:
Presented by:
Ethan “Eitan” R. Bornstein, MD
Dr. Ethan “Eitan” Bornstein, MD, grew up in the Washington, D.C. area and studied medicine at Emory University. He completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Colorado in Denver, where he met his wife. From there, Ethan relocated to Chinle, Arizona, where he and his wife worked for the Navajo Nation Indian Health Service. He now works for the CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service.
Resources Provided:
- Claim Continuing Education Credits
- Continuing Education Disclosures
- Omicron Variant: What You Need to Know (CDC)
- COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Shots (CDC)
- CDC Tightens Testing Requirement for International Travel to the US to One Day (CDC)
- FDA Authorizes New Long-Acting Monoclonal Antibodies for Pre-exposure Prevention of COVID-19 in Certain Individuals (FDA)
- Interactive COVID-19 Vaccine Conversations Module for Healthcare Professionals
- Risk for Stillbirth Among Women With and Without COVID-19 at Delivery Hospitalization — United States, March 2020–September 2021 (MMWR)
- Health Care Access and Use Among Adults with Diabetes During the COVID-19 Pandemic — United States, February–March 2021 (MMWR)
- SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.529 (Omicron) Variant — United States, December 1–8, 2021 (MMWR)
- Latest on Omicron Variant and COVID-19 Vaccine ProtectionLatest on Omicron Variant and COVID-19 Vaccine Protection (NIH Blog)
- Booster and Additional Primary Dose COVID-19 Vaccinations Among Adults Aged ≥65 Years — United States, August 13, 2021–November 19, 2021 (MMWR)
Date added: December 14, 2021