October 2020

PULMONARY

WHEN COVID-19 AND INFLUENZE COLLIDE: MANAGING TWO EPIDEMICS

Featuring: Benjamin Singer MD​

Episode Summary

On average, there are between 25 and 50 million documented cases of influenza each year. With this in mind, the overlap of COVID-19 and influenza has many experts in the United States concerned that we may soon face two epidemics at the same time and that this combination could precipitate a crisis for our country's health system.

In this episode of Better Edge, Benjamin Singer MD, pulmonologist and assistant professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care joins to discuss the clinical management of these two illnesses, the critical protocols the Northwestern Medicine team is implementing to manage the situation, and more.
Benjamin Singer MD is Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Member of Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute and
Member of Simpson Querrey Center for Epigenetics.

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