COVID-19 Archives - Permanente Medicine

Permanente physicians provide expertise to media coverage of coronavirus, COVID-19

January 1, 2023

Helping the media provide up-to-date information surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, our Permanente physician experts provide evidence-based medicine to ease fears.

Podcast: Health care’s evolution and path forward

November 21, 2022

In a special edition of the Permanente Medicine Podcast, Richard S. Isaacs, MD, FACS, discusses the far-reaching impact of COVID-19 on health care and the innovations that lie ahead.

PermanenteDocs Chat on flu season and fighting vaccine fatigue

November 7, 2022

Register to attend During the last two years, clinicians have had to approach the traditional flu season in untraditional ways because of COVID-19. This year is no different as people move out of the pandemic, questions remain among patients about…

PermanenteDocs Chat on the ‘tripledemic’: RSV, the flu, and COVID

October 10, 2022

Learn more about the threat of a tripledemic of RSV, the flu, and COVID this winter in this PermanenteDocs Chat with Matthew Daley, MD, pediatrician with Colorado Permanente Medical Group.

Podcast: Advancing health care in our communities

June 20, 2022

The 2022 season of The Permanente Medicine Podcast launches with host Chris Grant welcoming Kaiser Permanente leaders Bechara Choucair, MD, and David Grossman, MD, as they share perspectives on the importance of social and community health.

Stephen Parodi, MD, tells KevinMD many Americans will lose access to acute care at home services unless Congress acts

June 1, 2022

Permanente leader Stephen Parodi, MD, underscores the importance of Congress passing a bipartisan, bicameral Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act.

Stephen Parodi, MD, says CMS waiver extension can help advance framework for hospital-at-home programs

May 26, 2022

Stephen Parodi, MD, shares how a 2-year CMS waiver extension can support continued innovation and research toward a permanent framework for hospital-at-home programs.

William Towner, MD, with landscape background

5 questions with Permanente director for the Division of Clinical Trials

May 25, 2022

William Towner, MD, has been involved in research on infectious diseases since 2000 and served as a principal investigator for 150 clinical trials at Kaiser Permanente Southern California.