Flu, COVID, RSV, & Shingles Vaccines in Older Adults: Ken Schmader and Sharon Brangman
September 17, 2026
Just in time for respiratory virus season, this episode of the podcast breaks down essential vaccine guidance for older adults…
COVID Updates: A Podcast with Peter Chin-Hong and Lona Mody
October 31, 2024
In March 2020, we launched our first podcast on COVID-19. Over the past four years, we’ve seen many changes—some positive,…
What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens
July 14, 2022
“Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. Two-thirds of the patients in the…
What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi
June 2, 2022
We are two and a half years into the COVID pandemic. We’ve lived through lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, mask mandates,…
Return to Normal Hesitancy: Podcast with Monica Gandhi and Ashwin Kotwal
June 10, 2021
Harm reduction, as so clearly described by our guest Monica Gandhi on this podcast, began as a public health approach…
Life, Death, and a Hospital Strained by COVID: a Podcast with Brian Block, Sunita Puri and Denise Barchas
April 29, 2021
During the winter peak in coronavirus cases, things got busy in my hospital, but nothing close to what happened in…
Capturing Pandemic Lessons Learned for Local Health Departments and Long-Term Care Facilities
April 16, 2021
by Sara Levin, David Farrell, Terry Hill, and Nicole Howell As with much of our pre-pandemic reality, the relationship between…
Ageism + COVID19 = Elder Genocide: Podcast on nursing homes with Mike Wasserman
April 8, 2021
One of our earliest COVID podcasts with Jim Wright and David Grabowski a year ago addressed the early devastating impact…
COVID Vaccine Hesitancy in Frontline Nursing Home Staff
March 25, 2021
COVID has taken a devastated toll in nursing homes. Despite representing fewer than 5% of the total US events, at least…
Importance of Function in COVID Prognosis: Podcast with Orestis Panagiotou, Elizabeth White, and Marlon Aliberti
February 11, 2021
Nursing home residents have been devastated by COVID. Somewhere around 40% of deaths from COVID have been among nursing home residents,…