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Johnson & Johnson Announces Real-World Evidence and Phase 3 Data Confirming Strong and Long-Lasting Protection of Single-Shot COVID-19 Vaccine in the U.S.
This study compared approximately 390,000 people who received the Company’s single-shot COVID-19 vaccine versus approximately 1.52 million unvaccinated people matched on age, sex, time, three-digit zip code, and comorbidities and predictors for COVID-19 infection severity.This study is a longitudinal cohort design, using robust propensity matching methods to create a comparator cohort to assess real-world VE. All analyses were performed using the Aetion Evidence Platform, which is a scientifically validated software that is also used by regulators, payers, and health technology assessment bodies to assess the safety, eff...
Source: Johnson and Johnson - September 21, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Innovation Source Type: news
Characteristics, Comorbidities, and Data Gaps for Coronavirus Disease Deaths, Tennessee, USA
Emerg Infect Dis. 2021 Oct;27(10):2521-2528. doi: 10.3201/eid2710.211070.ABSTRACTAs of March 2021, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) had led to >500,000 deaths in the United States, and the state of Tennessee had the fifth highest number of cases per capita. We reviewed the Tennessee Department of Health COVID-19 surveillance and chart-abstraction data during March 15‒August 15, 2020. Patients who died from COVID-19 were more likely to be older, male, and Black and to have underlying conditions (hereafter comorbidities) than case-patients who survived. We found 30.4% of surviving case-patients and 20.3% of deceased patie...
Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases - September 21, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: John James Parker Rany Octaria Miranda D Smith Samantha J Chao Mary Beth Davis Celia Goodson Jon Warkentin Denise Werner Mary-Margaret A Fill Source Type: research
Hawaii records 7 new coronavirus-related deaths, 735 additional infections
Hawaii Department of Health officials today reported seven new coronavirus-related deaths and 735 new confirmed and probable infections...
Source: Reuters: Health - September 12, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Covid-19 UK: Britain's daily coronavirus deaths drop 8% in a week to 191
Department of Health bosses posted 191 new deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test, down from the 207 recorded last Wednesday. It brings the UK's total death toll to 133,674.
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Idaho Hospitals Begin Rationing Health Care Amid COVID-19 Surge
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho public health leaders announced Tuesday that they activated “crisis standards of care” allowing health care rationing for the state’s northern hospitals because there are more coronavirus patients than the institutions can handle.
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare quietly enacted the move Monday and publicly announced it in a statement Tuesday morning — warning residents that they may not get the care they would normally expect if they need to be hospitalized.
The move came as the state’s confirmed coronavirus cases skyrocketed in recent weeks. Idaho has one...
Source: TIME: Health - September 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: REBECCA BOONE/Associated Press Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
Antibody testing: information for general practitioners
The Department of Health and Social Care has published guidance for general practice on antibody testing for coronavirus to support with any patient queries that may arise.
Source: NHS Networks - August 27, 2021 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Pediatric COVID-19 Cases Are Surging, Pushing Hospitals —and Health Care Workers—to Their Breaking Points
Aug. 20 was a good day in the pediatric intensive care unit at Children’s Hospital New Orleans. Carvase Perrilloux, a two-month-old baby who’d come in about a week earlier with respiratory syncytial virus and COVID-19, was finally ready to breathe without the ventilator keeping his tiny body alive. “You did it!” nurses in PPE cooed as they removed the tube from his airway and he took his first solo gasp, bare toes kicking.
Downstairs, Quintetta Edwards was preparing for her 17-year-old son, Nelson Alexis III, to be discharged after spending more than two weeks in the hospital with COVID-19—fir...
Source: TIME: Health - August 26, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme/New Orleans, La. Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Johnson & Johnson Announces Data to Support Boosting its Single-Shot COVID-19 Vaccine
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., August 25, 2021 – Johnson & Johnson today announced data supporting the use of its COVID-19 vaccine as a booster shot for people previously vaccinated with the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine. In July, the Company reported interim Phase 1/2a data published in the New England Journal of Medicine that demonstrated neutralizing antibody responses generated by the Johnson & Johnson single-shot COVID-19 vaccine were strong and stable through eight months after immunization. In anticipation of the potential need for boosters, the Company conducted two Phase 1/2a studies in individuals pre...
Source: Johnson and Johnson - August 25, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Our Company Source Type: news
Consent to activities related to the security of NHS and public health services digital systems (coronavirus) directions 2021
Department of Health and Social Care -These directions enable the support and maintenance of cyber security of network and information systems held by or on behalf of the NHS or a public health body during the coronavirus (Covid-19) emergency. This power will last until 31st December 2021.DirectionsDepartment of Health and Social Care - publications
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - August 20, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Covid-19 Digital health and data Source Type: blogs
Biden says Americans can get Covid booster shots starting next month
White House prepared to offer third dose beginning 20 September to those inoculated at least eight months agoJoe Biden said on Wednesday his administration planned to make Covid-19 vaccine booster shots available to all Americans starting on 20 September as infections rise from the Delta variant of the coronavirus.The White House is prepared to offer a third booster shot starting on that date to all Americans who completed their initial inoculation at least eight months ago, the US Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 18, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Joan E Greve and agencies Tags: Biden administration Coronavirus US news Science Infectious diseases US politics Joe Biden Vaccines and immunisation Source Type: news
US to offer Covid vaccine booster shots in September
Boosters will initially be given to healthcare workers, nursing home residents and older people, starting 20 SeptemberThe US government said on Wednesday it plans to make Covid-19 vaccine booster shots widely available to all Americans starting on 20 September as infections rise from the Delta variant of the coronavirus.The White House is prepared to offer a third booster shot starting on that date to all Americans who completed their initial inoculation at least eight months ago, the US Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 18, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Reuters Tags: Biden administration Coronavirus US news Science Infectious diseases US politics Source Type: news
Ruthless Utilitarianism? COVID-19 State Triage Protocols May Subject Patients to Racial Discrimination and Providers to Legal Liability
Am J Law Med. 2021 Jul;47(2-3):264-290. doi: 10.1017/amj.2021.17.ABSTRACTAs the coronavirus pandemic intensified, many communities in the United States experienced shortages of ventilators, intensive care beds, and other medical supplies and treatments. Currently, there is no single national response to provide guidance on allocation of scarce health care resources. Accordingly, states have formulated various "triage protocols" to prioritize those who will receive care and those who may not have the same access to health care services when the population demand exceeds the supply. Triage protocols address general concepts ...
Source: American Journal of Law and Medicine - August 18, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Miriam F Weismann Cheryl Holder Source Type: research
