More Than 28 Million Excess Years of Life Lost During Pandemic More Than 28 Million Excess Years of Life Lost During Pandemic
Excess years of life lost in 2020 were more than five times higher than years of life lost from seasonal influenza in 2015.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Pharmacist Headlines)
Source: Medscape Pharmacist Headlines - November 5, 2021 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
There ’s Nothing Left to Debate on COVID-19 Vaccines for Kids
With emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine newly approved for children 5-11, many parents are asking the question—should we vaccinate our kids? To be fair, many parents may have already made up their mind on this topic with the majority not rushing to get their kids vaccinated.
Much of the argument against vaccinating this younger age group is that COVID-19 just doesn’t seem to cause a high likelihood of significant illness among immunocompetent children. Thankfully, purely as a percentage of total cases, this does hold true. To date, over six million children in the U.S. have contra...
Source: TIME: Health - November 3, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeff Vergales and Dr. Monica Gandhi Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
The Childhood Vaccine Debate Ignores a Crucial Point: Kids Aren ’t Supposed to Die
With emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine newly approved for children 5-11, many parents are asking the question—should we vaccinate our kids? To be fair, many parents may have already made up their mind on this topic with the majority not rushing to get their kids vaccinated.
Much of the argument against vaccinating this younger age group is that COVID-19 just doesn’t seem to cause a high likelihood of significant illness among immunocompetent children. Thankfully, purely as a percentage of total cases, this does hold true. To date, over six million children in the U.S. have contra...
Source: TIME: Health - November 3, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeff Vergales and Dr. Monica Gandhi Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
The effect of hand hygiene promotion programs during epidemics and pandemics of respiratory droplet-transmissible infections on health outcomes: a rapid systematic review
Conclusions: The data suggest that proactive hand hygiene promotion interventions, i.e. regardless of the identification of infected cases, can improve health outcomes upon implementation of such a program, in contrast to reactive interventions in which the program is implemented after (household) index cases are identified. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - October 15, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
YSPH alumna Shoshanna Goldin tackling pandemic preparedness
Goldin M.P.H. ’17, a technical officer at the World Health Organization, develops tools to assess countries’ preparedness for COVID-19 and influenza. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - October 13, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Holly Springs plant secures $34.95M contract for flu vaccine development
The federal government has awarded the drug manufacturer a $34.95 million contract to develop two pandemic influenza vaccines. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - October 5, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Zac Ezzone Source Type: news
Changes in Influenza Activity During the COVID-19 Pandemic Changes in Influenza Activity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Learn how the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent implementation of mitigation interventions altered patterns of transmission of some respiratory viruses, including influenza.Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - October 4, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases Journal Article Source Type: news
Disease-Specific Excess Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic Disease-Specific Excess Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This analysis reveals that in addition to deaths due to COVID-19, excess deaths from CVD, diabetes, influenza, and respiratory diseases began to increase after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.American Journal of Public Health (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - September 23, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health & Prevention Journal Article Source Type: news
COVID-19 Is Now the Deadliest Pandemic in American History
COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did — approximately 675,000.
The U.S. population a century ago was just one-third of what it is today, meaning the flu cut a much bigger, more lethal swath through the country. But the COVID-19 crisis is by any measure a colossal tragedy in its own right, especially given the incredible advances in scientific knowledge since then and the failure to take maximum advantage of the vaccines available this time.
“Big pockets of American society — and, worse, their leaders — have thrown this away,” medical historian ...
Source: TIME: Health - September 20, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Carla K. Johnson / Associated Press Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
COVID-19 Is Forcing Us to Talk About Rationing Health Care in the U.S. Again. Could We Have Avoided This?
On Sept. 7, the country’s leading COVID-19 doctor issued a dire warning about the growing number of pandemic cases in the country, and the shrinking number of ICU beds available to care for the sickest people. Speaking on CNN, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief White House medical advisor, said we are “perilously close in certain areas of the country of getting so close to having full occupancy that you’re going to be in a situation where you’re going to have to make some tough choices.”
Those tough choices, he admitted, include discussions about whether scarce resources should go to people who have...
Source: TIME: Health - September 10, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
The Long Journey to Resolve the Origins of a Previous Pandemic
Dozens of researchers, including myself, worked for years to uncover that swine flu had leapt to humans from a pig in Mexico in 2009. We learned a lot about influenza evolution, pig farming, and... (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - September 2, 2021 Category: Science Tags: News & Opinion Source Type: news
Tale of Two Pandemics: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and COVID-19 Tale of Two Pandemics: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and COVID-19
What lessons have we learned regarding public health response since the influenza pandemic of 1918, and how are we applying those lessons to the challenges of COVID-19?American Journal of Public Health (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - September 1, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Internal Medicine Journal Article Source Type: news
Pandemics Get Forgotten. But Not at This Museum.
The collection of the German Hygiene Museum shows that the same debates recur whenever disease breaks out, even if we don ’t remember them. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - September 1, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Annalisa Quinn Tags: Museums German Hygiene Museum Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Hygiene and Cleanliness Vaccination and Immunization Holocaust and the Nazi Era Smallpox Influenza Quarantine (Life and Culture) Dresden (Germany) Source Type: news
Effects of COVID-19 prevention procedures on other common infections: a systematic review
Conclusion: The implemented prevention measures and protocols might have reduced the incidence of influenza and some other common respiratory infections. However, controversies exist on this matter and future large population-based studies might provide further information to address these controversies. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - August 12, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The psychosocial impact of compounding humanitarian crises caused by war and CoViD-19 informing future disaster response - Harutyunyan H, Mukhaelyan A, Hertelendy AJ, Voskanyan A, Benham T, Issa F, Hart A, Ciottone GR.
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused the greatest global loss of life and economic impact due to a respiratory virus since the 1918 influenza pandemic. While health care systems around the world faced the enormous challenges of manag... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 9, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news
