Disease Prevention

Update: Dr. Birx, Trump’s Covid coordinator, testifies that the White House asked her to water down guidance to states.

Thu, 2022-06-23 17:56 — mike kraft

Dr. Deborah L. Birx, President Donald J. Trump’s coronavirus response coordinator, told a congressional committee investigating the federal pandemic response that Trump White House officials asked her to change or delete parts of the weekly guidance she sent state and local health officials, in what she described as a consistent effort to stifle information as virus cases surged in the second half of 2020.

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New Hampshire officials release initial list of places offering COVID-19 vaccines for children under 5

Thu, 2022-06-23 11:16 — mike kraft

NH officials release initial list of places offering COVID-19 vaccines for children under 5 New Hampshire children as young as six months old can soon get a COVID-19 vaccine. Here's how. KC Downey WMUR

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New Hampshire children as young as six months old can soon get a COVID-19 vaccine.

DHHS officials said close to 10,000 doses of the vaccines have already been delivered and more will be arriving to the state on a weekly basis.

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US boosts monkeypox testing, 142 cases confirmed

Thu, 2022-06-23 10:36 — mike kraft

US boosts monkeypox testing, 142 cases confirmed WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has started shipping monkeypox tests to commercial laboratories, in a bid to speed diagnoses for suspected infections for the virus that has already infected at least 142 people in the U.S. AP NEWS

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Recommendations for Building a National Public Health System That Addresses Ongoing and Future Health Crises -- Commonwealth Fund Commission study

Wed, 2022-06-22 19:22 — mike kraft

MEETING AMERICA’S
PUBLIC HEALTH CHALLENGE
Recommendations for Building a National Public Health
System That Addresses Ongoing and Future Health Crises,

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“We Have to Get Out of This Phase”: Interview with White House Covid "Czar" Ashish Jha on the Future of the Pandemic

Wed, 2022-06-22 18:08 — mike kraft

“We Have to Get Out of This Phase”: Ashish Jha on the Future of the Pandemic President Biden’s COVID czar talks about his public-health philosophy, his Twitter threads, his unlikely path to the White House, and where we go from here. Dhruv Khullar The New Yorker

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Moderna COVID variant vaccine to be ready for shipping in August--CEO

Wed, 2022-06-22 17:50 — mike kraft

Moderna CEO: COVID variant vaccine to be ready for shipping in August Moderna's COVID-19 variant vaccine will be ready to ship in August as the company has been making shots ahead of approval, Chief Executive Stephane Bancel told Reuters on Wednesday, adding that the only bottleneck to supply was a regulatory one. Reuters Reuters

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Trump Administration Embraced Herd Immunity via Mass Infection, likely contributing to many preventable deaths--Congressional report

Wed, 2022-06-22 17:42 — mike kraft

Report Shows Trump Administration Embraced Herd Immunity via Mass Infection The strategy likely contributed to many preventable deaths, report notes Jennifer Henderson medpagetoday

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A 4th vaccine shot provided benefits to patients hospitalized with severe covid--Israel study

Wed, 2022-06-22 17:32 — mike kraft

https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciac501/6611845

Hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19 during the Omicron wave benefited from a 4th vaccine shot--Israeli study

Waning vaccine-immunity and an increased incidence of COVID-19 during the Omicron outbreak led the Israeli Ministry of Health to recommend a fourth dose of BNT162b2 for high-risk individuals. This study assessed the effect of that dose for hospitalized patients with severe/critical, breakthrough COVID-19. ...

Among hospitalized patients with severe/critical breakthrough COVID-19, a recent fourth dose was associated with significant protection against mechanical ventilation or death, compared to three doses.

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Long COVID:Women are more likely than men to develop long COVID, study finds

Wed, 2022-06-22 17:18 — mike kraft

Women are more likely than men to develop long COVID, study finds A new study found women are 22% more likely than men to develop long COVID and experience different lingering symptoms. ABC News ABC News

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Researchers from Johnson & Johnson's Office of the Chief Medical Officer for Women's Health analyzed data from studies involving 1.3 million patients.

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