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Podcast: The Critical Care Commute Podcast
Episode: Meningitis: Implications for Critical Care
Description: Young lives have sadly been lost in the 2026 Kent meningitis outbreak. An “unprecedented” cluster centred on the University of Kent, linked to a Canterbury nightclub, and rapidly spreading through student halls and social mixing.In this timely and hard-hitting podcast episode, Jonny is joined by Intensivists Martin Beed, Peter Brindley (authors of the new primer on infectious meningitis and encephalitis in the Journal of the Intensive Care Society), and Andrew Conway-Morris.They explore the UK government’s targeted MenB vaccination program for university students and affected schools, the critical import...