Podcasts about pandemic flu

Update on the waning pandemic, flu season and other health matters

Our guest today is the Medical director of Sacramento's Emergency Medical Services Agency with decades of disaster response experience around the globe which has given him first hand experience in the health effects of climate change - please welcome Hernando Garzon - MD. His response to multiple climate related disasters has given him firsthand experience in the health effects of climate change.   If you like what we are doing please like, share and subscribe to IMPACT Podcast.   This Episode sponsored by Duncan Entertainment - Bringing real life stories into your living room  www.duncanentertainment.com  For more than thirty-five years, The Duncan Entertainment Group has created documentaries for release to broadcast networks, streaming services, and educational platforms around the world. We also volunteer annually to support the global not-for-profit community in service of humanitarian objectives. Using film and photography to build bridges among culturally and spiritually diverse communities is a core value behind our work.   More on our guest:  Hernando Garzon, MD is an Emergency Medicine physician practicing in Northern California since 1992. In addition to his clinical practice Dr. Garzon has extensive experience in disaster response and Global Health. He is currently serving as an emergency response consultant to the California Department of Public Health for the SARS-CoV-2 response, and as the acting Medical Director for the California EMS Authority. Dr. Garzon has also held multiple leadership roles in health care and has served on several boards for humanitarian relief organizations. He also serves as the Medical Director for the Sacramento Emergency Medical Services Agency (EMS).   Dr. Garzon's disaster response experience includes 14 domestic disaster response deployments with the FEMA Urban Search and Rescue system, and 19 international disaster responses with multiple humanitarian relief organizations. This work has included multiple domestic hurricane responses, a famine treatment hospital in eastern Kenya, a post-cyclone response to Burma, and more.     His response to multiple climate related disasters has given him firsthand experience in the health effects of climate change.   Hernando served as the Director for Kaiser Permanente's Global Health Program from inception in 2008 until 2018, and in this role helped develop capacity building volunteer clinical programs in Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania, Vietnam, Cambodia, Honduras, Colombia and other countries.   Hernando teaches frequently on the health effects of climate change, disaster medical care, and humanitarian medical response. He has served on federal and California state panels to define Crisis Medical Care guidelines and Pandemic Flu care guidelines, and has been a consultant for the US. Department of State on medical care for weapons of mass destruction, and for International Medical Corps. He is a member of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health, and the Consortium of Universities for Global Health.    Hernando Garzon, MD Medical Director, Sacramento EMS California Department of Public Health, Emergency Response hxgarzon@gmail.com hernando.garzon@cdph.ca.gov www.linkedin.com/in/hernando-garzon-9463336 @cdph @realimpactpod @hernandogarzon #EMS #californiaEMSauthority #sacrementoEMS #duncanentertainment #covidresponse #covid19 #omnicron #911 #katrina #naturaldisasters 

The University of Kentucky Center for Clinical and Translational Science kicked off its annual Spring Research Days with a keynote panel featuring acclaimed historian and author John M. Barry. His 2004 book “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History” was a New York Times bestseller and named by the National Academies of Science as the year’s outstanding book on science or medicine. Dr. Greg Davis spoke one on one with Barry and got his take on how the United States' response to the COVID-19 outbreak compared with that of the 1918 Spanish Flu, and what lessons are to be learned going forward.

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As the COVID pandemic continues and flu season begins, staying healthy and finding ways to improve your immunity is important. "A resilient immune system is not just preventing, but constantly eliminating our exposures to background infections or inflammatory agents," says Dr. Anjali Bhagra, a Mayo Clinic integrative medicine specialist. "It allows your body to keep healing from inflammatory or infective triggers." In this Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast Dr. Bhagra, whose research focuses on resilience, talks about the ways to build your immune system and how resiliency practices can help you cope with illnesses this winter.

The 1918 Pandemic Flu barely gave the recognition of the heroism provided by the health care workers despite of the World War. A century later, the health care workers are now the subject of discrimination and mistreatment by the people they sworn to take care of during the Covid-19 Pandemic .

This episode is the conclusion of Pandemic's Grandchild Part 1 and follows my Grandmother Emily Behan's move from Killeshin in Laois to Drumcondra in Dublin just as the War of Irish Independence breaks out in 1919. The podcast also contains a continuation of John Dorney's discussion of the Pandemic Flu of 1918-19 and it's impact on Ireland

Chapter 6 - The Forgotten Plague | World War 1 is over and so is the Spanish Flu. Despite the world forgetting there was a pandemic; we recognize the devastation and the efforts of everyone to fight it. Almost a century since the Pandemic Flu broke, we finally know what the invisible culprit caused it.

Chapter 5 - Leviathan | World War 1 is almost over but the rest of the world is still fighting the Pandemic Flu each in their own way. In American Samoa, Governor John Poyer makes a bold declaration to combat the Flu... CLOSE...THE...PORT !

President Woodrow Wilson and his military chose to focus on the World War. In Philadelphia, The City of Brotherly Love; will live up to it's name as the churches, doctors, nurses, researchers and normal civilians are left to fight the war against the Pandemic Flu. Will they succeed?

This episode tells the story of the Pandemic Flu of 1918 - 19 and how it had a profound effect on my family, especially my Grandmother, Nana Emily BehanIn this episode I interview Dublin historian on the impact of the flu on Irish society. Damien Shiels and Fin Dwyer also appear as guest readers

Your earbuds will graduate with a vital virology degree after Big Lucks, ‘Ol Blue Eyes and Chumahan breakdown how the Coronavirus actually works with all the perks. No fluff, no floundering, no bull, but it's the Hard Luck Show so the conversation twists into unmentionable topics that will shock your curly hair straight. Hear how Sean the Soundman almost joined a career in construction in the lockdown destruction. Listen up and get armed to the teeth to debunk wacky clown comments raining down like bullets of a barrage of garbage all around us.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-hard-luck-show/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dr. Daniel Curtis, an associate professor specializing in social responses to historical diseases at Erasmus University in the Netherlands, and Sarah Gregory discuss how people in movies react to epidemic disease outbreaks.

A timely interview with 96-year old world-renowned neuroendocrinologist and researcher Dr. Seymour Reichlin who discussing the role stress has on disease and the issues surrounding psychosomatic disease as well as briefly discuss the 1918 Pandemic flu, Babe Ruth and the deployment of the Atomic bomb.Dr. Reichlin joins our host, Dr. Mark Sublette who takes off his art hat too discuss medicine and early Navajo life in the 1950's and the medical treatments and lifestyle at that time as well as collecting Native Arts. This is part one of a two-episode interview.In part two, Seymour discusses his involvement in the research taking place on the Navajo Reservation and the barriers that he dealt with relating the concept of stress to a culture that did not have a word for headache. Seymour goes on to speak on his mentorship of the famous advocate for alternative medicine Deepak Chopra, his understanding of consciousness and departs after leaving us with an Art Dealer Diaries first - a musical performance!

The next pandemic flu is an inevitability. The 1918 flu killed more people than WWI. Today we talk about steps you can take to protect yourself and family. Thanks for joining me for this bonus podcast.  As we talked in the flu podcast, a global flu pandemic is pretty much inevitable.  Proper preparation is the vaccination for fear, and today we will discuss what you can do. Today’s episode is: Pandemic influenza:  You can’t fight the flu with kung fu As we talked previously, if the next flu pandemic is like the 1918 Spanish Flu, the worldwide death toll could approach 1 million.  This is despite all the medical advances that have been made since 1918. Were we prepared for the 2009 flu? The problem with the flu is that it is a constantly morphing threat.  An evaluation of the 2007 pandemic flu strategy is a good illustration.  When this plan was made, the assumption was that the next pandemic would be a highly pathogenic avian strain in the H5N1 family.  To this end, vaccine for this family was strategically stockpiled for rapid response. Another assumption was that the virus would emerge overseas, lengthening the available response time. When the next pandemic strain emerged in 2009, it was from the H1N1 family, a swine-origin virus rather than avian.  Instead of emerging overseas, the strain emerged in Mexico and rapidly spread to California. Fortunately, the strain proved to have a fairly low lethality and so the consequences of being wrong were not catastrophic.  Once the strain was recognized in April production of a vaccine was immediately started.  However, the vaccine wasn’t completed until October-6 months later.  It wasn’t until December that enough vaccine could be produced to protect the general public.  That’s 8 months to produce enough vaccine to protect the public once the strain is identified.  Can't we just make a vaccine for pandemic flu? These vaccines will be central in slowing a pandemic, but remember that the efficacy of most vaccines is only ~40% and the protection begins to wane rapidly.  Unless we get very lucky or better at predicting future strains, our most effective medical intervention will be unavailable for at least half a year. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/rr/rr6601a1.htm If the strain follows the 1918 model, where the first wave of the pandemic isn’t particularly lethal, this delay before the more deadly waves may be the advantage we need to get ahead of the virus.  There is no telling whether the next pandemic will follow this model. I wouldn't feel comfortable waiting 6 months before I took action to protect myself.  There are things we can do besides medical treatment.  The CDC calls these actions Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions. Communities fight the pandemic These include both community-based and personal protective measures.  Community-based interventions could include cancellation of schools, cessation of public gatherings and working from home or not at all. These measures would not be without difficulties.  As we are seeing in the coronavirus outbreak, interference with employment is likely to have nationwide and personal economic consequences.  School cancellations can further interfere with work attendance for at least one adult in the family.  While it would be easy to think that cancellation of community activities would be easy, remember that the mass fatalities will result in potential funerals.  While China appears to be having success disposing of bodies without funerals, I’m not sure this would fly here in the US.  Mass fatalities with a limited support network due to the pandemic could increase the mental health burden. How can you fight pandemic flu? As far as personal protective measures, the CDC recommends the following: voluntary home isolation of sick individuals, respiratory etiquette, use of face masks, and hand hygiene. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/rr/rr6601a1.htm

I spoke with Jessica Cole, MA, the Senior Incident Specific Planner for the Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response (OEPR) at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH). In this role, Mrs. Cole is responsible for the coordination of planning for a wide variety of possible threats, such as novel disease outbreaks and radiological incidents. Prior to this position, Mrs. Cole was the Agency’s Pandemic Influenza Coordinator. In this capacity, she was responsible for the planning and revision of the Agency’s pandemic plan. Prior to her positions in DOHMH, Mrs. Cole was an Adjunct Professor in emergency management, a pandemic planner for a major financial institution, risk management consultant, and pandemic program manager for a private medical services company in addition to working for 4 years as an investigator for NYC’s Department of Investigation. She received two Masters, one from the University of Chicago in Social Sciences and another from John Jay College with a special certification in terrorism studies. She attended Barnard College as an undergraduate. We spoke about what a pandemic influenza is, its potential impacts, and how the Dept. of Health and its partners in New York City are prepared, and how you can prepare. Here is a link to a checklist on how to prepare for pan-flu: https://www.pinnacleperformancemanagement.com/blog/dont-waste-a-crisis

At the time of recording, the coronavirus outbreak that originated in China has infected over 4,500 people -- though that number is sure to dramatically increase in the coming days. The vast majority of the people affected by this outbreak are in China, though infections have been confirmed in at least 14 other countries. And, again, the number of countries impacted will certainly increase.  There is a lot we still don't know about the coronavirus and this outbreak -- but we do know that this coronavirus outbreak is poised to become a major global health crisis.  So, for this episode, I wanted to give you a sense of the kind of global health infrastructure that exists for exactly moments like this. On the line with me to discuss the international response to this outbreak so far, including actions taken by the World Health Organization is Ambassador John E Lange. He is a retired ambassador from the United States who currently serves as a senior fellow for Global Health Diplomacy with the United Nations Foundation. Ambassador Lange also served, from 2006 to 2009 as the US Special Representative for Avian Flu and Pandemic Flu preparedness. This gives him some unique insight into how both the US government and entities like the WHO respond to these kinds of fast-moving outbreaks.  We kick off discussing the World Health Organization's role in managing the global response to an outbreak like this, including the relevance of something called the 2005 International Health Regulations. These were adopted by the international community following the SARS outbreak in 2003. We also discuss potential scenarios for the coronavirus to turn into a pandemic that could deeply impact poorer countries with weak health systems. By the time you are listening to this, the WHO will likely have declared this situation.  But when Amb. Lange and I spoke on January 28, they had not yet made that declaration. Still, anticipating it, we do discuss what is meant by the term. https://www.undispatch.com/ https://www.facebook.com/UNDispatch/ https://www.globaldispatchespodcast.com/ https://www.who.int/    

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In this Medical News podcast, infectious disease threats expert Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH, discusses how the United States and the rest of the world may fare if another 1918-like influenza epidemic strikes.

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Editor of The Lancet Infectious Diseases, John McConnell, discusses the 1918 influenza pandemic and the lessons that can be learnt from it with John Oxford and Jeffery Taubenberger.

Last year, CIDRAP Director Michael Osterholm, PhD along with Mark Olshaker released the very interesting and relevant book, Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs. I talked to "Bad News Mike" last April on the radio show about some of the most important public health issues addressed in the book to include bioterrorism, vaccines, antibiotic resistance and pandemic influenza, to name a few. A great storyteller with vast experience in infectious disease epidemiology, Osterholm covered these topics with experience, zeal, knowledge and never pulling any punches. As one Amazon reviewer writes: Fabulous read from a great writer/scientist/public health warrior!

Last year, CIDRAP Director Michael Osterholm, PhD along with Mark Olshaker released the very interesting and relevant book, Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs. I talked to “Bad News Mike” last April on the radio show about some of the most important public health issues addressed in the book to include bioterrorism, vaccines, antibiotic resistance and pandemic […] The post Bioterrorism, antibiotic resistance and pandemic flu: Discussing ‘Deadliest Enemy’ appeared first on Outbreak News Today.

In this NewsFlash, we discuss the scientific research that can't be published - a "recipe" for an H5N1 flu virus with pandemic potential that has scientists and governments concerned about biosecurity and terrorism. Plus, the deepest deep sea vents ever found, and a round up of other scientific headlines.

Steve has over twenty years of experience in the high tech industry and is the former Director of Operations for Silicon Genetics, in Redwood City, CA, where he was responsible for shipping their flagship product. Steve also led the development of numerous serious roleplaying simulations, including a Pandemic Flu simulation for the US National Capitol Region.Join us September 24th at 2 PM ET.

Guest: George Korch, PhD Host: Bruce Japsen The federal government has acknowledged the United States needs to overhaul its effort to develop better measures to counter pandemic flus and bioterrorist threats. So with nearly $2 billion committed, Dr. George Korch, secretary of preparedness and response at the US Department of Health and Human Services, tells host Bruce Japsen about how this new initiative should improve the system of developing and manufacturing drugs and vaccines to prepare for public health crises.

Guest: George Korch, PhD Host: Bruce Japsen The federal government has acknowledged the United States needs to overhaul its effort to develop better measures to counter pandemic flus and bioterrorist threats. So with nearly $2 billion committed, Dr. George Korch, secretary of preparedness and response at the US Department of Health and Human Services, tells host Bruce Japsen about how this new initiative should improve the system of developing and manufacturing drugs and vaccines to prepare for public health crises.

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--{ Copenhagen Treat-y, a Treat for the Greedy: "Copenhagen Treaty Sweet for Those in Deal, Salivating Over the Cash They'll Steal, Capitalists and Socialists come Together Where Profits and Power Merge and Tether, We're about to be Plundered Again, Alas, To Ward Off Effects of a Minute Gas, By High-Priests Preaching Climate Salvation With Fudged Data, Mainly Confabulation, From Anointed Computers, Way Above Macs, Which Spew Out Everything, Excluding Hard Facts, Oh Save Us, Sterility, Death and Abortion, Cry of Social Utopians, Their World-View Distortion, One Thing for Sure, There's No Reliance When Politics and Finance are Driving This 'Science' " © Alan Watt }-- World Orders, Finding Enemies and "Terrorists" Within - Matrix of Deception, Levels of Reality - Psychopathic Elite Claw Way to Top, Battle for Power - Copenhagen Treaty, Making Deals, Dividing up Loot (Taxes) - Laissez-Faire Capitalism, Workers Treated like Dirt - Thesis (Capitalism) / Antithesis (Communism) / Synthesis (Merger) - Communists Armand Hammer, Lenin and Al Gore - Scientific Indoctrination of Children - Tony Blair, No Regrets - Eugenics under Many Guises. Solar Activity (the Sun) Causes Warming - Stable Sea Levels - Carbon Dioxide from Volcanoes - No Scientists' Consensus on Rubbish of "Man-Made Global Warming". Optimum Population Trust - Mantras Chanted - "Family Planning" (Abortion, Sterilization) to Reduce Carbon Emissions - Disbelief of Public in Horrors Actually Happening - Media is Political - "Cost-Benefit Analysis" put on Human Life. Hype and Crisis Creation, "Pandemic" Flu, Bank Bailouts - Never-Published Trials on Tamiflu show Ineffectiveness. Al Gore Lies about Leaked Climate-Fudging Emails. Group Demands, People Stopped from Asking Questions - Group Infiltration by Professionals - Totalitarianism, Fascism, Corporations "on Board". (Articles: -- Global Warming Caused by Sun-Telegraph ("Copenhagen climate summit: global warming 'caused by sun's radiation' " by Louise Gray (telegraph.co.uk) - Dec. 5, 2009.) -- Gore Reverses "cause" of Global Warming When it Suits Him (Video: "Uncovered Testimony: Gore Admits Temperatures Cause CO2 to Increase Not Other Way Around" (breitbart.tv).) -- Humans are Just Carbon Problems ("Treating human beings as little more than carbon" by Frank Furedi (spiked-online.com) - Dec. 7, 2009.) -- New Data on Ineffectiveness of Tamiflu ("Review Questions Tamiflu's Effectiveness" (healthday.com) - Dec. 9, 2009.) -- Al Gore Lies Again concerning Leaked E-mails ("Climategate: Gore falsifies the record" by Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun (news.com.au) - Dec. 9, 2009.) ) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Dec. 9, 2009 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

As in the days of Noah, so shall the coming of the Son of man be.  The signs of Jesus' return are here.  Are you watching?  A perfect storm is brewing for chaos in America this fall.  Could there be a holocaust coming to America?  And a prophecy of an event coming this fall that would pale 9/11 and change the entire world forever. Evidence of the Use of Pandemic Flu to Depopulate USA ABC TV Movie Fatal Contact : Bird Flu in America Health Freedom USA  (Info and vids on Codex Alimentarius) UnderstandTheTimes.org BBC: Bush's Father Planned Fascist Coup in America Corporate Dynamics (Novartis and I.G. Farben) Bush continues family tradition of doing business with I.G. Farben New Wine Ministry  (Click on radio/video archives > New Wine Radio Archives > DC THE HEART 8-1-09) Blackjack

Unless you have been living under rock, you have no doubt heard about the Swine Flu. This show is going to be all about Pandemic Flu, and Swine Influenza A H1N1. There is a lot of bad information being passed around, so we're going to address the facts and realities of Pandemic Flu.

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Guest: Dave Gruber Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD How are states addressing preparatory needs for a pandemic influenza outbreak? How does a state's preparedness dovetail with other state and federal efforts? Dave Gruber, senior assistant commissioner for the division of health infrastructure preparedness and emergency response for the state of New Jersey, evaluates key preparedness indicators to measure progress in your state. More specifically, Mr. Gruber looks at state-level movement toward anti-viral stockpiling, in collaboration with national preparedness organizations. Susan Dolan hosts.

Guest: Philip Smith, MD Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Lona Mody, MBBS Providing healthcare in an influenza pandemic would likely bring an all-hands-on-deck approach. The staff at nursing homes and other care facilities would be enlisted to supply treatment to their own residents, likely in addition to outside patients requiring immediate assistance. How can nursing home institutions train their care providers for the specific demands of a pandemic flu scenario? What would be the special needs of nursing home residents during this time? For a closer look at these questions and more, host Dr. Mark Nolan Hill welcomes Dr. Philip Smith, professor and chief of infectious diseases at the University of Nebraska School of Medicine, and Dr. Lona Mody, assistant professor of internal medicine in the division of geriatric medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School.

Guest: Gregory Gilbert, MD Host: Gary Kohn, MD What would happen at your ER if a quarter of the staff were sick, and hundreds of people began streaming in with a highly infectious and potentially lethal influenza. Dr. Gregory Gilbert, an Emergency Medicine specialist at Stanford University, discusses the role physicians play in helping their hospital's disaster planning.

Guest: Gregory Gilbert, MD Host: Gary Kohn, MD In the event of a flu pandemic, Dr. Gregory Gilbert, an Emergency Medicine Specialist at Stanford University, suggests it may make sense to keep people with suspected flu out of the ER, while triaging them to the care they need. He discusses the concept of "drive-thru" triage and how it might be adapted to community hospitals.

Guest: Jon Abramson, MD Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD What was it like to be the chair of the Red Book, the ultimate pediatric source on SARS, West Nile, MRSA, Rotovirus, Pandemic Flu. Host Dr. Bill Rutenberg talks with Dr. Jon Abrmason who previously chaired the Red Book committee for the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Guest: Patrick O'Neal, MD Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Dr. J. Patrick O'Neal, director of public health for emergency preparedness for the State of Georgia, discusses how to prepare for a pandemic flu outbreak. Dr. Bruce Bloom hosts.

Cable in the Classroom is pleased to present via podcast [MP3, 54MB], the October 17, 2006 edition of the U.S. Department of Education's Education News Parents Can Use.This episode focuses on what we can do now to prepare for an influenza pandemic—a global outbreak from a new strain of flu—that could have a dramatic impact on our nation’s communities, schools, and families. Although it is difficult to predict when the next pandemic flu might occur or how severe it will be, one thing is certain: educators, parents and community leaders can take steps now to lessen the impact of such an outbreak. The program features experts from across the federal government who are highlighting exemplary flu and emergency preparedness programs; answering questions about the different strains of flu and how they spread; updating an emerging body of resources for families and schools; and providing user-friendly tips for parents on ensuring the safety, health and security of children. It addresses questions such as:What are the differences between pandemic, seasonal and bird flu?What is “H5N1” and why are scientists paying so much attention to it?What is known about the pandemic flu and the possibility of a future outbreak - and how real is the threat?What are state, local and federal agencies doing to prepare for the threat of pandemic flu?How can families prepare now for the threat of a pandemic flu?What does a “family plan” look like, and how might it be helpful in the event of other emergencies, such as natural disasters?What kinds of questions should parents ask their children’s schools about their pandemic flu and emergency preparedness plans?In the event of an outbreak, what measures would schools take, and how would families be notified? And if schools shut down, how can families ensure that their children keep learning?Where can families go for updated and helpful resources on the pandemic flu? For more information about this program, please see the U.S. Department of Education's show notes.Listeners may also be interested in the Fall 2006 edition of Cable in the Classroom's Threshold (produced in partnership with the Council of Chief State School Officers) and in the September 2006 edition of Cable in the Classroom Magazine - both editions of which focused on emergency preparedness in the 21st century.Technorati tags: parents, news, NCLB, US Department of Education, public domain, pandemic flu, H5N1, emergency preparedness, CIC, Cable in the Classroom

Plan for the worst, get the best resultsHear from networking industry guru Zeus Kerravala in this podcast about best practices when developing a disaster plan for pandemic flu. Get the low-down on what's most critical to act on today and how you can map out a game plan for long-term protection.Listen on your PC or download to your favorite mobile device.http://media.techtarget.com/audioCast/NETWORKING/snet-birdflureport-07-06-06.mp3