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Minority healthcare workers experienced COVID testing delays in first 2 years of pandemic --study

Fri, 2024-04-12 10:35 — mike kraft

Minority healthcare workers experienced COVID testing delays in first 2 years of pandemic Black and non-Hispanic healthcare professionals (HCPs) of other races and those without graduate degrees were more likely than their White peers and clinical HCPs with graduate degrees to experience delayed COVID-19 testing in the first 2 years of the pandemic, finds a multicenter, test-negative case-control study. CIDRAP

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Opinion: Steps to rebuild trust in public health

Thu, 2024-04-11 10:25 — mike kraft

To rebuild trust in public health: Better communication, fewer mandates, and small wins Rebuilding trust in the CDC won't be quick or easy — especially in a divisive political season — but that doesn't make it any less important. Patrick Skerrett STAT

by Tom Frieden, former head of CDC

... In many countries — notably the United States — the pandemic dissolved trust between parts of the community and the public health system. How can that trust be restored? In a word: gradually. Trust is built in drops and lost in buckets.

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Characteristics of family practice doctors who see largest share of unvaccinated patients --Canadian study

Tue, 2024-04-09 10:07 — mike kraft

Those not vaccinated against COVID-19 more likely to be poorer, immigrants, study shows Physicians with the largest proportion of unvaccinated patients were more likely to be male. CIDRAP

A study today in CMAJ describes the characteristics of family practice physicians who see the largest share of patients unvaccinated against COVID-19, and reveals that the largest percentage practice in marginalized, lower-income neighborhoods.

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U.S. COVID-19 patients in rural areas have higher death rates following hospital stays --study

Mon, 2024-04-08 17:27 — mike kraft

Rural COVID-19 patients have higher death rates following hospital stays, data reveal A new analysis of US national data from researchers at the Mayo Clinic shows that patients from rural counties had higher death rates and trended toward higher readmission rates following COVID-19 hospitalization than those from urban counties. The difference persisted after the introduction of COVID-19 vaccines. CIDRAP

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U.S.health system problems: More Americans are losing their doctors, and too few new pediatricians

Tue, 2024-04-02 10:31 — mike kraft

More Patients Are Losing Their Doctors — And Trust in the Primary Care System - KFF Health News A shortage of primary care providers is driving more people to seek routine care in emergency settings. In Rhode Island, safety-net clinics are under pressure as clinicians retire or burn out, and patients say it’s harder to find care as they lose connections to familiar doctors. khnerich KFF Health News

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Covid pandemic provided an opportunity to watch the human immune system respond in real time

Fri, 2024-03-29 10:46 — mike kraft

Covid’s scientific silver lining: A chance to watch the human immune system respond in real time Covid wreaked havoc on the world. It also provided an unprecedented look at the human immune system. Helen Branswell STAT

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The Covid pandemic marked the first time people armed with powerful scientific tools could study how the immune system awakens to and develops defenses against a new threat, in real time, in the global population.

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Scientists study evolution of COVID in an effort to head off a resurgence

Wed, 2024-03-27 14:16 — mike kraft

Rat droppings from New York City. Poop from dog parks in Wisconsin. Human waste from a Missouri hospital. These are some of the materials that are readying us for the next chapter of the coronavirus saga.

More than four years into the pandemic, the virus has loosened its hold on most people’s bodies and minds. But a new variant better able to dodge our immune defenses may yet appear, derailing a hard-won return to normalcy.

Scientists around the country are watching for the first signs.

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