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In this special COVID episode, Steve Caddle, MD, MPH, FAAP, joins hosts David Hill, MD, FAAP, and Joanna Parga-Belinkie, MD, FAAP, to talk about treating COVID patients in New York City during the initial surge of cases in March 2020. The hosts also interview Yvonne “Bonnie” Maldonado, MD, FAAP, Chair of the AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases, to get an idea of infection prevention and control a year later.
Pediatrics on Call
|March 30, 2021
In this episode Sean O’Leary, MD, MPH, FAAP, vice chair of the AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases, describes the characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 and what it might take to end the pandemic. Hosts David Hill, MD, FAAP, and Joanna Parga-Belinkie, MD, FAAP, also talk to Jeffrey S. Gerber, MD, PhD, FAAP, chair of the Antimicrobial Resistance and Stewardship Subcommittee of COID, about his efforts to end unnecessary prescribing of antibiotics in pediatrics.
Pediatrics on Call
|April 13, 2021
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