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Biden Administration Announces $600M to Produce No-Cost COVID Tests
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is providing $600 million in funding to produce new at-home COVID-19 tests and is restarting a website allowing Americans to again order up to four free tests per household — aiming to prevent possible shortages during a rise in coronavirus cases that has typically come during colder months. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The Department of Health and Human Services says orders can be placed at COVIDTests.gov starting Sept. 25, and that no-cost tests will be delivered for free by the United States Postal Service. Twe...
Source: TIME: Health - September 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Associated Press Tags: Uncategorized Biden Administration Source Type: news

Myocarditis update from Sweden
BY ANISH KOKA The COVID19/vaccine myocarditis debate continues in large part because our public health institutions are grossly mischaracterizing the risks and benefits of vaccines to young people. A snapshot of what the establishment says as it relates to the particular area of concern: college vaccine mandates: Dr. Arthur Reingold, an epidemiology professor at UC-Berkeley, notes that UC also requires immunizations for measles and chickenpox, and people still are dying from COVID at rates that exceed those for influenza. As of Feb. 1, there were more than 400 COVID deaths a day across the U.S. “The arg...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Anish Koka covid19 myocarditis Sweden Source Type: blogs

What the Pandemic Taught Us About Value-based Care
By RICHARD ISSACS You’ll recall that we ran a long piece (pt 1, pt 2) about Medicare Advantage from former Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson earlier this year. Here’s a somewhat related piece from the current head of the Permanente Medical Group about what actually happened there and elsewhere during the pandemic–Matthew Holt The COVID-19 pandemic has provided important lessons regarding the structure and delivery of health care in the United States, and one of the most significant takeaways has been the need to shift to value-based models of care. The urgency for this transformation was cle...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 17, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Medical Practice Physicians Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage Pandemic Richard Isaacs value-based care Source Type: blogs

Coronavirus UK: Daily cases fall 3% week-on-week to 5,605 while death toll falls to 98
The Department of Health figures show that cases remain low and level despite millions of people getting tested for the virus, suggesting keeping schools open will be safe.
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 24, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The U.S. Fumbled Its Early Vaccine Rollout. Will the Biden Administration Put America Back on Track?
On a frigid morning in January, Trudy Ronnel settled into her favorite sofa chair at the Westminster Place senior-living community in Evanston, Ill., pulled down the neckline on her red blouse and braced herself for a shot she’d anticipated for almost a year. At 92 years old, with multiple medical conditions, she spent most of 2020 fearful of contracting the COVID-19 plague that ravaged the world outside her first-floor window. To protect herself, for the past few months she’d avoided Westminster’s communal rooms, which had provided a means to stay active and engaged but risked becoming a pathogenic petri...
Source: TIME: Health - January 21, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: W.J. Hennigan, Alice Park and Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 feature Magazine Source Type: news

Superspreaders, clusters and dead ends: Research reveals more about how coronavirus spreads
Research from Arizona and beyond suggests the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 can spread erratically, making some infected people “superspreaders” and others dead ends for transmission. This can create clusters or “microhotspots” – neighborhoods, schools, towns or other small geographic areas where the virus runs rampant – even while communities next door remain relatively unscathed. These concentrated outbreaks a ren’t included in the Arizona Department of Health Service’s Covid-19…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - December 13, 2020 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Anthony J. Wallace Source Type: news

Implementing Mitigation Strategies in Early Care and Education Settings for Prevention of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission - Eight States, September-October 2020.
Abstract The Head Start program, including Head Start for children aged 3-5 years and Early Head Start for infants, toddlers, and pregnant women, promotes early learning and healthy development among children aged 0-5 years whose families meet the annually adjusted Federal Poverty Guidelines* throughout the United States.† These programs are funded by grants administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families (ACF). In March 2020, Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act,§ which appropriated $750 million for Head Start,...
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - December 11, 2020 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Coronado F, Blough S, Bergeron D, Proia K, Sauber-Schatz E, Beltran M, Rau KT, McMichael A, Fortin T, Lackey M, Rohs J, Sparrow T, Baldwin G Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: research

President Signs Executive Orders as COVID Relief Negotiations Collapse
After COVID relief negotiations between White House representatives and Democratic congressional leaders reached an impasse, President Trump signed a series of Executive Orders on August 8, 2020, the White House argued would restore lapsed benefits and address some of the pandemic’s economic impacts. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin began negotiations on the next coronavirus stimulus after Senate Republicans introduced a $1 trillion relief package on July 27. The House had passed a broader $3 trill...
Source: Public Policy Reports - August 17, 2020 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news

The Baltimore Bioterrorism Expert Who Inspired South Korea ’s COVID-19 Response
On Oct. 2, 2001, a 62-year-old photojournalist named Bob Stevens became the first victim of a coordinated series of anthrax attacks to be admitted to hospital. Stevens inhaled the deadly pathogen after opening one of several letters laced with anthrax spores which were mailed to the offices of prominent senators and media outlets across the U.S. Over the next seven weeks, he and four others would die as a result of their exposure. For a shell-shocked nation still reeling from the single deadliest terrorist attack in human history on September 11, it was a disturbing realization that there was a new wave of challenges to Am...
Source: TIME: Health - May 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: David Cox Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news

Timing of Community Mitigation and Changes in Reported COVID-19 and Community Mobility - Four U.S. Metropolitan Areas, February 26-April 1, 2020.
This report presents initial data from the metropolitan areas of San Francisco, California; Seattle, Washington; New Orleans, Louisiana; and New York City, New York* to describe the relationship between timing of public policy measures, community mobility (a proxy measure for social distancing), and temporal trends in reported coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases. Community mobility in all four locations declined from February 26, 2020 to April 1, 2020, decreasing with each policy issued and as case counts increased. This report suggests that public policy measures are an important tool to support social distancing an...
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - April 16, 2020 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Lasry A, Kidder D, Hast M, Poovey J, Sunshine G, Winglee K, Zviedrite N, Ahmed F, Ethier KA, CDC Public Health Law Program, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Louisiana Department of Health, Public Health – Seattle & King County, Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: research

To Fight The Coronavirus, Massachusetts Medical Schools Are Graduating Students Early
BOSTON (CBS) — The four Massachusetts medical schools have agreed to Gov. Charlie Baker’s request to graduate medical students early to help fight the coronavirus, the schools announced Thursday. The schools include Boston University, Tufts University, Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts.” “Anticipating a surge in the number of COVID-19 hospital patients, the deans of the four Massachusetts medical schools have agreed to the state’s request to move up the graduation dates of their fourth-year medical students, allowing them to join doctors on the frontlines of the pandemic up t...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - March 26, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Boston News Health Syndicated CBSN Boston Syndicated Local Boston University Charlie Baker Coronavirus Harvard University Marylou Sudders Tufts University University Of Massachusetts Source Type: news

The Coronavirus-Infected Grand Princess Is in Port. But Passengers Are Still Stuck on Board
(OAKLAND, Calif.) — Thousands of passengers aboard a cruise ship struck by the novel coronavirus waited anxiously Tuesday for their chance to leave the vessel, even if it meant being shipped to military bases for weeks of quarantine. After days of being forced to idle off the Northern California coast, the Grand Princess docked Monday at the Port of Oakland with some 3,500 passengers and crew on board. “Everyone was hollering and clapping” as the giant vessel sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge and entered the harbor, passenger Karen Schwartz Dever said. About two dozen people who need acute medical care ...
Source: TIME: Health - March 9, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Olga R. Rodriguez and Daisy Nguyen / AP Tags: Uncategorized California COVID-19 onetime Travel Source Type: news

State activates emergency center in response to coronavirus
Pennsylvania officials announced Wednesday it has activated the Department of Health's Emergency Operations Center and updated response plans as concern grows about potential spread of the COVID-19 virus in the United States. There have been no cases yet in Pennsylvania and only about 50 in the United States, all tied to previous cases or travel in China. But Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials Tuesday urged businesses, workplaces, schools and average citizens to prepare for potential…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - February 26, 2020 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Paul J. Gough Source Type: news

Interim Guidance for Environmental Cleaning for Non-Healthcare Settings Following Exposure to a Patient with Confirmed or Suspected 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Infection
Source: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Published: 1/30/2020. This two-page checklist contains recommendations for environmental cleaning practices in non-healthcare settings, including but not limited to childcare facilities, schools, airports and other transportation centers, and homes after exposure to patients being evaluated for, or confirmed to have, COVID-19 (coronavirus disease). (PDF)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - January 30, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news