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