COVID-19
Our Permanente physicians are using their expertise and person- and family-centered approach to care to address the current COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more about what we’re doing and find resources that we’re sharing with the health care community. If you’re a Kaiser Permanente member, visit kp.org to get more information about patient care.
Playbooks
The Permanente Medical Groups are providing these COVID-19 playbooks as a resource to help guide other health systems in their coronavirus response. Read our summaries and download the playbooks.
- Mitigation Phase Playbook
- Surge Phase Playbook
- Mitigation Playbook for Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly
- Social Health Playbook
Also available for patients and consumers is this helpful “Return to Sports” Playbook:
Our national infectious disease leader
Stephen M. Parodi, MD, is an infectious disease physician with The Permanente Medical Group and an executive vice president of The Permanente Federation. He is the physician leader guiding Kaiser Permanente’s response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Dr. Parodi in the news
- On CNN on transitioning to an “endemic”
- On CNN International on employer vaccine mandates
- In NEJM Catalyst: “Kaiser Permanente’s System Capabilities to Suppress Covid-19”
- In JAMA on hospitalization and ICU rates
- On MedPage Today: “COVID’s Assault on the Moral Fiber of Medicine”
- On MedPage Today: “With Ingenuity, We’ll Beat COVID-19”
- On MedPage Today: “With Variants, COVID-19 Race Becomes a Sprint”
- In The Wall Street Journal on disparate COVID-19 interventions across the nation
- On The Today Show: “Are California and Washington flattening the coronavirus curve?”
- On ABC News: “Baby Monitors in the ICU”
- On CBC News on California’s early response delaying a surge
- In JAMA on moving from containment to mitigation strategy
- On NBC Evening News: “hospitals prepare for coronavirus patients”
- On MSNBC on urgency of increasing vaccine supply
From the front lines
This is a series of perspective pieces from physicians who are among the hundreds of thousands providing care during the coronavirus pandemic. And watch doctors chat about the COVID-19 vaccines in our JustTheVaxx chat series.
- Meighan W. Elder, MD: Partners through pandemia
- Alex McDonald, MD: COVID video diaries
- Hanah Polotsky, MD, MBOE: How COVID-19 stirred memories of Chernobyl disaster
- #55WordStories Project
- Dennis Truong, MD: Fueling the fight against COVID-19 with hope and happiness
- David Ward, MD: The meaning of ‘calling’
- Lindsay Mazotti, MD: 10 lessons from a hospital command center
Additional reading
- Lessons learned: A look back at the pandemic
- Turning COVID vaccine hesitancy into vaccine confidence
- Historical mistreatment of African Americans at the root of vaccine hesitancy
- From plague to COVID: pandemics drive health care transformation
- Potential PTSD and other mental health issues among front-line physicians
- Clinical research trials on the drug remdesivir
- Building coronavirus testing capacity
- Telehealth at Kaiser Permanente during COVID-19
- Rapid research projects and clinical trials
- Breaking the COVID curve
Tune in to an episode of the Permanente Medicine Podcast on charting a course for COVID-19 vaccination.