In our latest podcast about COVID, Nedra and Gina talk about expectations, challenges, and frustrations with providing care during a pandemic. Topics from this podcast include:

• Potential outlook for cases (and, yes, it was a sine wave–who knew we’d talk about that much mathematics on Mod Midwives!)
• Coping with changes in our lives
• Clarifying the purpose of masking (AKA the great mask controversy)
• The critical importance of protecting and caring for each other
• Transmission of coronavirus indoors vs. outdoors (this is the blog post we reference)
• The need for us to protect every person in our practice, and the responsibilities of each family in the practice therein
• The responsibility of providers and doulas to take and model appropriate precautions in their practice
• Case fatality rates
• Yet another reiteration that this is not the flu
• More math
• Risks of COVID for pregnant people and babies, in particular, and why this makes hospital birth the only appropriate place for delivery in case of infection
• The impact on our families
• Expectations (or the lack thereof) for midwives to protect themselves (from a variety of pathogens)
• Antibody testing
• Asymptomatic infections
• Availability of testing
• Coping with our PPE
• And…we dip our toes into the politics of the pandemic