OccPod: COVID Conversations – Episode 33, Variants and Therapeutics

27/06/2022 19 min Temporada 1 Episodio 29

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Thank you for joining us for episode 33 of OccPod, the official podcast of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. This episode continues the COVID Conversations series, which is dedicated to sharing the latest COVID-19 news, and frame conversations through the lens of science with a focus on OEM, or occupational and environmental medicine. As conversations surrounding serious illness and the pandemic begin to dissipate, OccPod will begin to shift to other topics and series, such as OccPod: Climate Conversations.
In this episode, Erin and Dr. Nabeel discuss further variants of COVID-19 and therapeutics such as Paxlovid. This treatment, which is an oral antiviral pill that can be taken at home to help keep high-risk patients from becoming hospitalized, was granted an emergency use authorization (EUA) by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in December for anyone ages 12 and older. As always, thank you for joining us for another episode of COVID Conversations!