#205 COVID Cakes and Hot Takes with Rahul Ganatra MD

Rundown of recent COVID articles and news stories including: Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, serologic testing, use of convalescent plasma, economic inequality / health disparities... and COVID in cats?! We’re joined by Curbsider/Internist/Epidemiologist, Rahul Ganatra MD, @rbganatra (VA Boston). Plus, @Paulnwilliamz and @cjchiu give us  some telehealth along with the usual antics. Show Notes | Subscribe | Spotify | Swag! | Top Picks | Mailing List | thecurbsiders@gmail.com

Credits

• Written, Produced, Hosted by: Rahul Ganatra MD, Chris Chiu MD, FACP, FAAP; Matthew Watto MD, FACP; Paul Williams MD, FACP
  
• Cover Art and Show Notes by: Matthew Watto MD, FACP
  
• Editor: Matthew Watto MD
  
• Guest: Rahul Ganatra MD
  

Time Stamps

• 00:00 Intro, COVID-19 and cats by Shi J Science Apr 2020; Picks of the week
  
• 07:08 Telehealth (Greenhalgh BMJ 2020), Breathlessness (Roth score calculator), ACP COVID-19 resource site
  
• 11:50 Telehealth best practices
  
• 16:42 Convalescent plasma and Serology
  
• 21:45 Chris discusses the decontamination of N95 masks using CCDS (CCDS, Battele news Report)
  
• 23:45 Inequality during the pandemic VOX and NYTimes articles on inequality
  
• 25:30 Critical appraisal for HCQ + azithromycin article from France (Gautret et al IJAA 2020) and Rahul’s tweetorial
• 49:18 Pre-print data; Rahul discusses a newer HCQ randomized clinical trial article (Chen medRxiv 2020)