MMWR Weekly Briefing
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Week of June 6, 2022
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses three MMWR reports. The first report examines ventilation improvement strategies in K-12 public schools. The second report desc...
Week of May 30, 2022
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses three MMWR reports. The first report examines CDC's emergency response to a multistate monkeypox outbreak. The second report de...
Week of May 23, 2022
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses four MMWR reports. The first report examines ACIP's recommendation for use of the JYNNEOS vaccine in people aged 18 years and o...
Week of May 16, 2022
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses four MMWR reports. The first report highlights the effectiveness of a COVID-19 additional primary or booster dose among nursing...
Week of April 18, 2022
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses four MMWR reports. The first report highlights children ages 5-11 years hospitalized with COVID-19. The second report examines ...
Week of April 11, 2022
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses three MMWR reports. The first report highlights COVID-19 death rates and vaccine coverage in Hong Kong during the ongoing Omicr...
Week of March 28, 2022
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses eight MMWR reports. This week, MMWR released a supplement of five reports looking at adolescent behaviors and experiences durin...
Week of March 14, 2022
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses four MMWR reports. The first report looks at hospitalizations of infants and children ages 4 and younger with COVID-19. The sec...
Week of March 7, 2022
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses three MMWR reports. The first report looks at the impact of universal masking policies in K-12 school districts on COVID-19 inc...
Week of February 28, 2022
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses three MMWR reports. The first report looks at safety monitoring of COVID-19 vaccine booster doses among people aged 12-17 years...
Weeks of February 11th to 25th
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses nine MMWR reports. The first report looks at the effectiveness of mRNA COVID-19 vaccination among pregnant people against hospi...
Week of January 31, 2022
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses five MMWR reports. The first report looks at the effectiveness of masks in indoor settings for the prevention of COVID-19. The ...
Week of January 24, 2022
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses two MMWR reports. The first report looks at trends in disease severity and health care utilization during the early Omicron var...
Week of January 17, 2022
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses six MMWR reports. The first report looks at racial and ethnic disparities in receipt of monoclonal antibodies for the treatment...
Week of January 3, 2022
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses four MMWR reports. The first report looks at the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against multisystem inflammatory ...
Week of December 27, 2021
05 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses four MMWR reports. This first report looks at an Omicron variant cluster among a single household in Nebraska. The next report ...
Week of December 13, 2021
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses five MMWR reports. This first report looks at the impact of a health care provider recommendation on vaccination status and att...
Week of December 6, 2021
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses four MMWR reports. This first report looks at the U.S. response to the Omicron variant. The second highlights receipt of booste...
Week of November 15, 2021
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses six MMWR reports. The first two emphasize the risks associated with COVID-19 during pregnancy. The third report looks at infect...
Week of November 1, 2021
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses two MMWR reports. The first highlights ACIP's interim recommendation for the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine in chi...
Week of October 25, 2021
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses four MMWR reports: two about COVID-19 and two related to lead and other metal exposures in honor of National Lead Poisoning Pre...
Week of October 18, 2021
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses three MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first report highlights the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination against hospitalization in a...
Week of October 13, 2021
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The first report looks at the safety of an additional dose of COVID-19 vaccine. The next two highlight the association between K-12 school mask polici...
Week of September 20, 2021
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses four MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first looks at the rate of BMI increase in children during the pandemic. The next report highli...
Week of September 13, 2021
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses six MMWR COVID-19 reports. TThe first three reports look at the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines, including during the rise o...
Week of September 6, 2021
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses six MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first report looks at a heart complication that COVID-19 patients are at higher risk of developi...
Week of August 23, 2021
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses six MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first three highlight how easily Delta can spread among people who are unvaccinated and the next...
Week of August 16, 2021
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses five MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first three reports highlight the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against infection and hosp...
Week of August 9, 2021
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses two MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first report highlights the benefits of all three FDA-authorized COVID-19 vaccines in preventing...
Week of August 2, 2021
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discuses three MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first report describes how vaccination provides better protection from reinfection than does na...
Week of July 26, 2021
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses four MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first report presents five factors CDC recommends that communities and organizations consider w...
Week of June 28, 2021
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses two MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first report describes differences in access to full-time, in-person instruction across racial a...
Week of June 21, 2021
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses four MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first two reports describe vaccination coverage and intent among adults. Another report shows t...
Weeks of June 7 and 14, 2021
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses six MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first report highlights how COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths declined among older ad...
Week of May 31, 2021
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses four MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first report details the importance of COVID-19 vaccination for adolescents and mask use for th...
Week of May 24, 2021
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses three MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first report describes COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough cases reported to CDC. Another report sho...
Week of May 17, 2021
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses four MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first report describes how COVID-19 vaccination rates in rural counties were lower compared wit...
Week of May 10, 2021
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses five MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first report provides more evidence that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are effective in real-world con...
Week of May 3, 2021
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses three MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first report projects how increasing vaccination coverage and the use of preventive measures w...
Week of April 26, 2021
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses seven MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first report provides an update on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommenda...
Week of April 19, 2021
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses five MMWR COVID-19 reports. Two reports show that COVID-19 vaccination was effective in preventing illness among residents and ...
Week of April 12, 2021
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses six MMWR COVID-19 reports. One describes how leaving the middle seat vacant on airplanes could reduce exposure to COVID-19. Two...
Week of April 5, 2021
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses six MMWR COVID-19 reports. One report describes an indoor bar opening event that led to a COVID-19 outbreak in a rural Illinois...
Week of March 29, 2021
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses six MMWR COVID-19 reports. One report highlights the effectiveness of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in preventing COVID-19 among healt...
Week of March 22, 2021
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses four MMWR COVID-19 reports. One report describes how the impact of COVID-19 on communities of color changed during the pandemic...
Week of March 15, 2021
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses nine MMWR COVID-19 reports. Three reports look at COVID-19 vaccination, including real-world effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTe...
Week of March 8, 2021
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses three MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first one presents the link between elevated body mass index and the risk for severe COVID-19 ...
Week of March 1, 2021
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses six MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first one describes recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for Jo...
Week of February 22
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses five MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first one describes the early success of a national COVID-19 vaccine campaign in Israel. Two re...
Week of February 15, 2021
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses six MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first two describe the detection and spread of COVID-19 variants in the United States and intern...
Week of February 8, 2021
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses five MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first highlights how wearing a tighter-fitting mask can help slow the spread of COVID-19. Two r...
Week of February 1, 2021
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses five MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first describes the demographics of people who have received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine...
Week of January 25, 2021
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode covers seven MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first describes the small number of severe allergic reactions after people received the Mo...
Week of January 18, 2021
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode covers four MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first describes the rise of new variants of the virus that causes COVID-19. The second repo...
Week of January 11, 2021
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode covers four MMWR COVID-19 reports. In the first, I'll describe how lapses in infection control likely led to an outbreak of a mult...
Week of January 4, 2021
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode covers five MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first describes that severe reactions following Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination appear...
Weeks of December 21 and 28, 2020
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode covers six MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first discusses interim recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice...
Week of December 14, 2020
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode covers six MMWR COVID-19 reports. In the first, ACIP issued an interim recommendation for use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vacc...
Week of December 7, 2020
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, I'll discuss five MMWR COVID-19 reports. One report outlines a combination of ten actions that individuals, families, and comm...
Week of November 30, 2020
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, MMWR published four reports. One report describes ACIP recommendations for the priority populations for the initial phase of the COVID-19 v...
Week of November 23, 2020
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, MMWR published five reports. One describes four ethical principles that will guide decision-making on how COVID-19 vaccines will be allocat...
Week of November 16, 2020
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, MMWR published three reports and a new feature called COVID-19 Stats. One report demonstrates how frequent testing combined with preventive...
Week of November 9, 2020
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, MMWR published five reports. Two reports show how social gatherings likely contributed to the rapid spread of COVID-19 in rural communities...
Week of November 2, 2020
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, MMWR published seven reports. One looks at how COVID-19 spreads within households. Two reports underscore the importance of counseling preg...
Week of October 26, 2020
07 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, MMWR published seven reports. Two reports examine the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare workers. Another report focuses on the increasing ro...
Week of October 19, 2020
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, MMWR published seven reports. One report compares adverse outcomes from patients hospitalized with COVID-19 versus flu. Two reports examine...
Week of October 12, 2020
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, MMWR published four reports. Two looked at factors influencing the risk of exposure to COVID-19 among young adults in a Wisconsin county, a...
Week of October 5, 2020
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, MMWR published a total of four reports. Reports in this week's issue looked at a COVID-19 outbreak linked to a three-week family gathering,...
Week of September 28, 2020
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, MMWR published a series of reports describing the role that young adults have played in the spread of COVID-19. This week's issue also look...
Week of September 21, 2020
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, MMWR published four reports. One describes the likely role of younger adults in the spread of COVID-19 and another describes characteristic...
Week of September 14, 2020
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted Americans of all stages of life from babies and young children, to pregnant women, to older adults. This week, MMWR...
Week of September 7, 2020
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, MMWR published reports about how adults with COVID-19 were more likely to have dined at a restaurant before getting sick, the number of adu...
MMWR Weekly COVID-19 Trailer
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charlotte Kent, Editor-in-Chief of CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report introduces the MMWR's Weekly COVID-19 Briefing series.
Week of August 31, 2020
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, MMWR published reports about COVID-19 cases going undetected among frontline U.S. health care workers, how stay-at-home orders influenced b...
Week of August 24, 2020
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, MMWR published three success stories about efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19. Two reports describe successes in settings serving group...
Week of August 17, 2020
24 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Dr. Kent highlights reports about COVID-19 hotspot counties in the United States, workplace outbreaks in Utah, the rate of COV...
Week of August 10, 2020
23 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Dr. Kent highlights reports about the impact of COVID-19 on children, nursing homes, and the mental health of Americans
Week of August 3, 2020
23 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Dr. Charlotte Kent highlights reports about an outbreak of COVID-19 at an overnight youth camp, use of a novel automated techn...
Week of July 27, 2020
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Dr. Charlotte Kent highlighted reports about how long COVID-19 symptoms last in adults who haven't been hospitalized, efforts ...
Week of July 20, 2020
27 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Dr. Charlotte Kent highlighted two reports on the seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection as well as another report looking at ...
Week of July 13, 2020
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Dr. Charlotte Kent highlighted two important MMWR reports related to the use of cloth face coverings to prevent the spread of ...
Week of July 6, 2020
12 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Dr. Charlotte Kent highlighted two MMWR reports looked at aspects of COVID-19's impact on workplaces, including food productio...
Week of June 29, 2020
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week the MMWR released an article about the Potential Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Use of Emergency Departments in the United States, an a...
Week of June 22, 2020
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week the MMWR released an article about the Potential Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Use of Emergency Departments in the United States, an a...