Nursing Home Staffing Shortages and Other Problems Still Persist
Infection control lapses, severe staffing shortages and lowering vaccination rates have continued to plague many facilities beyond the pandemic. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - February 29, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Andrew Jacobs Tags: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Nursing Homes Shortages Elder Care Labor and Jobs Inspectors General Protective Clothing and Gear Vaccination and Immunization Medicare Medicaid Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Health and Human Serv Source Type: news
Interim Effectiveness of Updated 2023-2024 (Monovalent XBB.1.5) COVID-19 Vaccines Against COVID-19-Associated Emergency Department and Urgent Care Encounters and Hospitalization Among Immunocompetent Adults Aged ≥18 Years - VISION and IVY Networks, September 2023-January 2024
This report describes vaccine effectiveness for the updated 2023-24 COVID-19 vaccine. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - February 29, 2024 Category: American Health Tags: MMWR Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Source Type: news
Odds of Severe COVID-19 High for Hematologic Cancer Patients During Pandemic
THURSDAY, Feb. 29, 2024 -- For patients with hematologic cancers, the odds of developing severe COVID-19 despite vaccination remained high through mid-2022, according to a study published online Feb. 23 in JAMA Network Open.
Sonia T. Anand, Ph.D.,... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - February 29, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
CDC Experts Recommend Seniors Get Another COVID Shot
THURSDAY, Feb. 29, 2024 -- Even if they got a COVID booster last fall, American seniors should still get a second shot this spring to best protect themselves, U.S. health officials recommended Wednesday.
The latest guidance, voted on by a vaccine... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - February 29, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
CDC recommends seniors get another COVID-19 vaccine shot
A federal immunization committee is recommending seniors 65 years of age and older receive another dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - February 29, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Older Adults Should Get Another COVID Booster, CDC Advisors Say
(MedPage Today) -- Adults ages 65 and older should receive an additional dose of the 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccine this spring, according to CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
Eleven members of the committee voted in favor... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - February 29, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Huge push to get kids vaccinated against illnesses like measles, polio and diphtheria as uptake rates plunge to decade low in wake of Covid
Fronted by children, the advert aims to appeal directly to parents and boost the numbers getting their children vaccinated with experts concerned about the risk illness falling jab uptake. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 29, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Older Americans Should Get a Covid Booster This Spring, CDC Advisers Say
The agency recommended another round of vaccinations for Americans ages 65 and older. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - February 28, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Apoorva Mandavilli Tags: your-feed-science Vaccination and Immunization Drugs (Pharmaceuticals) Elderly Disease Rates Immune System Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Source Type: news
Older Americans Should Get Another Covid Shot This Spring, Panel Says
Scientific advisers to the C.D.C. recommended boosters for Americans ages 65 and older. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - February 28, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Apoorva Mandavilli Tags: your-feed-science Vaccination and Immunization Drugs (Pharmaceuticals) Elderly Disease Rates Immune System Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Source Type: news
Why Measles Cases Are Rising Right Now
Last year, cases of measles—a serious, vaccine-preventable disease that’s highly contagious—jumped by 79% around the world. Most of them were in children. That trend is continuing this year, threatening to reverse an impressive 73% drop in measles deaths worldwide from 2000 to 2018.
Cases in the U.S. are climbing, too. In just the first two months of 2024, 35 cases have already been reported in 15 states including California, Minnesota, Florida, New York, and Louisiana; in 2023, 58 cases were reported over the entire year.
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Why are measles cases taking ...
Source: TIME: Health - February 28, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Health chiefs 'failed to sound alarm over potential dangers of Covid vaccines': MPs accuse regulator of putting Brits 'at serious risk' by not immediately sharing how Pfizer jabs could trigger extremely rare heart side effect
A cross-party group of politicians have called for an urgent investigation into the medicines regulator after uncovering evidence it knew about Covid jab side effects months before issuing warnings. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 28, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Misleading Headlines Behind the New COVID Vaccine Safety Study
(MedPage Today) -- The largest COVID-19 safety study to date was published online earlier this month in the journal Vaccine. The study, which was spearheaded by the Global Vaccine Data Network and funded by the CDC, included data on over 99 million... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - February 28, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
From COVID-19 to Measles, Florida ’ s War on Public Health
The culture of public health and medicine rests on open discussions in which different points of view are considered for the betterment of patient care and health. This process depends on psychological safety so individuals feel free and safe to speak and openly disagree. These factors collectively create a just culture, which improves systems and organizations and is being widely implemented in healthcare nationwide.
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However, in the face of politicized anti-science and anti-expert sentiment and attacks, we need to ask if just culture is being restricted in public health. Fo...
Source: TIME: Health - February 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Scott A. Rivkees Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
Leaky Blood Vessels and Long COVID; BCG Vaccine and Alzheimer's; New CTE Subtype
(MedPage Today) -- Brain fog in long COVID may be due to a leaky blood-brain barrier, new research suggested. (Nature Neuroscience)
A highly accurate novel blood test was at least as good as FDA-approved cerebrospinal fluid assays at diagnosing... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - February 27, 2024 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Study Finds Increasing Time Between COVID Vaccine Doses Reduces Risk Of Myocarditis, Yet Cardiologists Raise Concerns
Authored by Megan Redshaw via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), New research suggests increasing the interval between vaccine doses or using a single dose may significantly lower…#meganredshaw #epochtimes #npjvaccines #hongkong #pfizer #cardiologist #kirkmilhoan #clevelandclinic #departmentofhealth #cdc (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
