Interview with William H. Shrank, MD, MSHS, author of Waste in the US Health Care System: Estimated Costs and Potential for Savings

Interview with Deborah Dowell, M.D., M.P.H., author of Patient-Centered Reduction or Discontinuation of Long-term Opioid Analgesics: The HHS Guide for Clinicians

Interview with John P. A. Ioannidis, MD, DSc, author of Neglecting Major Health Problems and Broadcasting Minor, Uncertain Issues in Lifestyle Science

Interview with Pascale Carayon, PhD, author of Improving the System to Support Clinician Well-being and Provide Better Patient Care

Interview with Amol S. Navathe, MD, PhD, author of Addressing Bias in Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Interview with Mark D. Huffman, MD, MPH, author of Implementation Strategies for Cardiovascular Polypills

Interview with Michael J. Barry, MD, USPSTF member and coauthor of Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Interview with Anthony S. Fauci, MD, author of Comorbidities in Persons With HIV: The Lingering Challenge

Interview with Mercedes R. Carnethon, PhD, author of Disparities Research, Disparities Researchers, and Health Equity

Interview with Julia A. Segre, Ph.D., author of Manipulating the Human Microbiome to Manage Disease

Interview with Claire J. Creutzfeldt, MD, author of Treatment Decisions for a Future Self: Ethical Obligations to Guide Truly Informed Choices

Interview with Donna Michelle Zulman, MD, and Abraham Verghese, MD, authors of Practices to Foster Physician Presence and Connection With Patients in the Clinical Encounter

Interview with Maya M. Hammoud, MD, MBA, author of Improving the Residency Application and Selection Process: An Optional Early Result Acceptance Program

Interview with I Glenn. Cohen, JD, author of Ethical and Legal Aspects of Ambient Intelligence in Hospitals

Interview with Anthony S. Fauci, MD, author of Coronavirus Infections—More Than Just the Common Cold

Interview with Jack Resneck, MD, author of Refocusing Medication Prior Authorization on Its Intended Purpose

Interview with Martin A. Makary, MD, MPH, author of Billing Quality Is Medical Quality

In February 2020 the nature of the 2019-nCoV outbreak is still slowly coming into focus but it appears to be acting more like bad pandemic influenza (efficient spread, overall lower mortality) than like SARS (less efficient spread, overall higher mortality). Anthony Fauci, MD, of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) discusses the latest developments with JAMA Editor in Chief Howard Bauchner.

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Interview with Jenny A. Doust, BMBS, author of Potential Consequences of Changing Disease Classifications

By mid-February 2020 there were 60,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the vast majority diagnosed in Hubei Province (including Wuhan city) in mainland China. China CDC Chief Epidemiologist Zunyou Wu, MD, PhD discusses the latest COVID-19 developments in the country with JAMA Editor in Chief Howard Bauchner, MD.

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Interview with David Naylor, MD DPhil, author of The Evolution of Schools of Thought in Medicine: Healthy Tensions

Interview with Chyke A Doubeni, MD, MPH, author of Screening for Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Interview with Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., author of The Inevitable Reimagining of Medical Education

Interview with Jonathan A. Patz, MD, MPH, author of A Low-Carbon Future Could Improve Global Health and Achieve Economic Benefits

Interview with Michael J. Barry, MD, Task Force member and coauthor of Screening for Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Adolescents and Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Coronavirus testing, mortality, vaccine development, containment vs mitigation, and more. JAMA Editor Howard Bauchner, MD, interviews US NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, MD, about the latest developments in SARS-CoV-2 science and global spread of infection.

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Interview with Victor M. Montori, MD, MSC, author of When Guidelines Recommend Shared Decision-making

Coronavirus testing will help countries manage coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) but will raise questions about how to counsel patients about their test results. The CDC's Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases Jay C. Butler, MD, talks with JAMA Editor Howard Bauchner about what to advise healthy patients with positive PCR results, sick patients with negative test results, exposed health care workers, and more.

Diagnostic testing, NSAIDs, ACE Inhibitors, antivirals, and more. Anthony Fauci, MD from NIAID discusses latest developments in the spread and clinical management of COVID-19 and the SARS-CoV-2 virus with JAMA Editor Howard Bauchner, MD.

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The strategy for managing the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted from containment to mitigation. What does that mean for US hospitals and health systems? Kaiser Permanente Executive Vice President Stephen M. Parodi, MD, discusses telemedicine, protecting health care workers, equipment allocation planning, and more.

As COVID-19 spreads globally, populations who survive their illness will become immune. Mayo Vaccine Research Group Director Gregory Poland, MD, discusses antibody responses, duration of immunity, vaccine safety, and the prospects for using convalescent serum to passively immunize people unexposed to SARS-CoV-2.

Hospitals need ways to make rational, fair decisions about who gets ICU beds and ventilators if COVID-19 patients overwhelm capacity. Douglas B. White, MD, MAS, Director of the Program on Ethics and Decision Making in Critical Illness at the University of Pittsburgh, discusses a framework for those decisions and a guideline he helped develop for allocation of scarce resources in public health emergencies.

How does the current pandemic compare to historical infectious outbreaks and what can we expect in summer and fall of 2020? Nicholas Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, director of the Human Nature Lab, Co-director of the Institute of Network Science, and Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University, discusses the epidemiology of COVID-19.

Noninvasive ventilation (NIV), working with dying patients’ families, use of experimental therapies, and more. JAMA Associate Editor Derek Angus, MD, MPH, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, provides a COVID-19 ICU management update.

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Interview with Sandro Galea, MD, author of The Role of Physicians in Addressing Social Determinants of Health

Infectious epidemics have always driven change and triggered discrimination in human societies. Frank Snowden, DPhil, Professor Emeritus of History and History of Medicine at Yale University and author of Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present (Yale University Press, 2019), puts the COVID-19 pandemic in historical context.

Interview with Chien-Wen W Tseng, MD, MPH, USPSTF member and coauthor of Screening for Bacterial Vaginosis in Pregnant Persons to Prevent Preterm Delivery: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Questions about testing, chloroquine toxicity, duration of immunity and reinfection, and what to expect next are gripping the US as the novel coronavirus spreads. JAMA Associate Editor Preeti Malani, MD, professor of medicine and Chief Health Officer at the University of Michigan, discusses recent developments in a live conversation with JAMA Editor in Chief Howard Bauchner. Recorded on April 6, 2020.

NIAID Director and Presidential Coronavirus Task Force Advisor Anthony Fauci, MD, discusses recent developments in the global COVID-19 pandemic with JAMA Editor Howard Bauchner, MD. Recorded April 8, 2020.

US states are taking the lead in managing the COVID-19 pandemic. What can state governors expect from the federal government and from the US Department of Health and Human Services? Governor Mike Leavitt from Leavitt Partners joins JAMA Editor Howard Bauchner, MD, in this live Q&A. Recorded April 8, 2020.

New York City coronavirus update from Mitchell Katz, MD, President and CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest municipal public health system in the United States. Recorded April 13, 2020.

Interview with Jeffrey A. Linder, MD, author of Delayed Antibiotic Prescriptions in Ambulatory Care: Reconsidering a Problematic Practice

JAMA Health Forum editors John Ayanian, MD, MPP, and Melinda Buntin, PhD, discuss changes in US health care and health policy driven by the coronavirus pandemic. Recorded April 16, 2020.

Interview with Madison Kilbride, PhD, author of The Need to Improve the Clinical Utility of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Tests: Either Too Narrow or Too Broad

Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, of Harvard University discusses public health strategies and policies for lifting shelter-in-place and quarantine and for returning the US to a new post-first-wave normal. Recorded Monday April 20, 2020.

Interview with Aaron S. Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH, author of Increasing Access to FDA Inspection Reports on Irregularities and Misconduct in Clinical Trials

Marc Lipsitch, DPhil, an infectious diseases epidemiologist developing biological and modeling approaches to pathogen transmission and outbreaks, discusses evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic in summer and fall 2020. Originally recorded April 22, 2020.

Interview with Michael Silverstein, MD, MPH, USPSTF member and coauthor of Primary Care Interventions for Prevention and Cessation of Tobacco Use in Children and Adolescents: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

The US spends more on health care as a proportion of its GDP than any other nation. Will the COVID-19 pandemic reduce or accelerate that spending? Sherry Glied, PhD, Dean and Professor of Public Service at New York University, explains. Recorded Monday, April 27, 2020.

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The Potential Effects of Coronavirus on National Health Expenditures