US suicides dropped last year, contrary to pandemic expectations/speculation

Fri, 2021-04-09 12:00 — mike kraft
US suicides dropped last year, defying pandemic expectations It is hard to say exactly why suicide deaths dropped so much, but one factor may be a phenomenon seen in the early stages of wars and national disasters, some experts suggested. “There's a heroism phase in every disaster period, where we're banding together and expressing lots of messages of support that we're in this together,” said Dr. Christine Moutier, chief medical officer of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. U.S.
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Biden to surge vaccinators, testing but not more vaccines to hard hit Michigan

Fri, 2021-04-09 11:49 — mike kraft
Biden to surge vaccinators, testing to hard-hit Michigan WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington is surging federal resources to support vaccinations, testing and therapeutics, but not vaccines, to Michigan in an effort to control the state's worst-in-the-nation... AP NEWS
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More US troops are willing to take coronavius vaccines, education efforts may be reducing the reluctance.

Fri, 2021-04-09 11:19 — mike kraft
Fewer Troops Are Declining the COVID Vaccine. We May Never Know Why Defense leaders say education efforts and seeing peers get vaccinated are reducing the reluctance. Elizabeth Howe Defense One
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More than 20 % of rural Americans unwilling to take coronavirus vaccines. Politics and religion are factors

Fri, 2021-04-09 11:09 — mike kraft
More than half of rural Americans have received a Covid-19 vaccine or plan to, but hesitancy remains high, analysis finds More than half of rural residents in the United States have received a Covid-19 vaccine or plan to, but one in five still say they will definitely not get vaccinated, according to analysis released by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) Friday. By <a href="/profiles/julia-hollingsworth">Julia Hollingsworth</a>, CNN CNN
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Many children with serious inflammatory disease did not show COVID-19 symptoms: study

Fri, 2021-04-09 10:52 — mike kraft
Many children with serious inflammatory disease did not show COVID-19 Many children who developed a mysterious inflammatory illness after a COVID-19 infection did not display some of the traditional COVID-19 symptoms, and the disease only appeared several weeks after Nathaniel Weixel TheHill
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No safety concerns found with J&J vaccine after reaction incidents in North Carolina

Fri, 2021-04-09 10:31 — mike kraft
No safety concerns found with J&J vaccine after reactions in NC counties RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – North Carolina health officials, working with the CDC, found no safety issues or reasons for concern after a handful of reactions were reported during Johnson & Joh… Justyn Melrose myfox8.com
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Worldwide: Countries hit new records for virus cases, deaths

Fri, 2021-04-09 10:23 — mike kraft
Countries worldwide hit new records for virus cases, deaths Ambulances filled with breathless patients lined up in Brazil as nations around the world set new records Thursday for COVID-19 deaths and new coronavirus infections. The disease surged even in... AP NEWS
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Rise of Variants in Europe adds to coronavius dangers

Fri, 2021-04-09 10:02 — mike kraft
Rise of Variants in Europe Shows How Dangerous the Virus Can Be Much of the continent is experiencing a wave of outbreaks driven by the B.1.1.7 variant, which ravaged Britain this winter. The New York Times

Europe, the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic last spring, has once again swelled with new cases, which are inundating some local hospitals and driving a worrisome global surge of Covid-19.

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Spread of coronavirus variants prompts calls for changing vaccine distribution strategy

Fri, 2021-04-09 09:50 — mike kraft
Rise of coronavirus variants will define the next phase of the pandemic in the U.S. Vaccines are effective against the three major new strains of the virus, but some places say they need more to fight highly transmissible types. Lenny Bernstein, Ariana Eunjung Cha, Terrence McCoy, Jacqueline Dupree Washington Post
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Trusting a Covid-19 Vaccine: What’s Next? --On line discussion Friday, April 9, 1 PM ET

Thu, 2021-04-08 20:02 — mike kraft

The CSIS Global Health Policy Center invites you to join us for an online event:
 

Trusting a Covid-19 Vaccine:
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Friday, April 9, 2021

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Juliette Kayyem

Senior Belfer Lecturer in International Security
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Description and graphics showing how coronavirus variants have spread in the U.S.

Thu, 2021-04-08 16:15 — mike kraft
As Variants Have Spread, Progress Against the Virus in U.S. Has Stalled Vaccinations have topped three million per day, but cases have risen again amid the presence of more-contagious variants, restriction rollbacks and more travel. The New York Times
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Administration does not grant Michigan's request for additional vaccines to counter coronavisus surge

Thu, 2021-04-08 15:06 — mike kraft
Biden officials won’t surge vaccine supply to Michigan, despite Covid spike Experts say the Biden administration should surge additional vaccine doses to Michigan. So far, the White House hasn’t listened. Lev Facher STAT

WASHINGTON — Amid Michigan’s worst-in-the-nation coronavirus surge, scientists and public health officials are urging the Biden administration to flood the state with additional vaccine doses.

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Is the U.S. heading toward California, which has America's best COVID numbers, or Michigan, which has the worst?

Thu, 2021-04-08 14:51 — mike kraft
California has America’s best COVID numbers. Michigan has the worst. Which way is the U.S. heading? After enduring a steep, nationwide surge over the holidays — followed by a decline in cases that was just as steep and just as widespread — America has entered a strange new phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. YahooNews
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Colorado shuts a vaccination site after 11 'adverse reactions' to Johnson & Johnson shots, plus other developments

Thu, 2021-04-08 14:29 — mike kraft
Colorado vaccination site shuts down after 11 'adverse reactions' to Johnson & Johnson jabs: Latest COVID-19 updates A mass vaccination site in Colorado was shut down after 11 people suffered reactions from shots, including nausea, dizziness. Latest COVID-19 news. John Bacon and Elinor Aspegren USA TODAY
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U.S. allotting 85% less J&J vaccines to states next week, following factory problems

Thu, 2021-04-08 14:18 — mike kraft
U.S. to allot 85% fewer J&J vaccines to states next week, data shows The U.S. government will allocate nearly 85% fewer Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines next week to non-pharmacy providers, data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed. Shubham Kalia U.S.
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