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Covid-weary Americans enter summer with little effort to contain a still-raging pandemic

Mon, 2022-05-30 08:39 — mike kraft

Covid was vanishing last Memorial Day. Cases are five times higher now. Covid-weary Americans enter summer with little effort to contain a still-raging pandemic. Washington Post

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Patient group calls for more regular scheduling of recurring COVID-19 boosters to encourage vaccinations

Fri, 2022-05-27 17:28 — mike kraft

Patient group calls for recurring COVID-19 boosters to cut through vaccine apathy The nonprofit ECRI said adopting a booster shot schedule targeting emerging variants would create certainty and convince more Americans to get shots. YahooNews

Fewer than one in three Americans have received an extra shot of the COVID-19 vaccine and one patient safety group thinks that's a public health challenge.

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Monkeypox: Africa CDC warns on vaccine hoarding amid monkeypox outbreak

Thu, 2022-05-26 08:37 — mike kraft

Africa CDC warns on vaccine hoarding amid monkeypox outbreak The acting director of Africa's top public health agency said on Thursday that he hoped vaccine hoarding, as seen by wealthier nations during the COVID-19 pandemic, would not be repeated with the current monkeypox outbreak. Bhargav Acharya,Alexander Winning Reuters

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Pfizer CEO predicts 'constant waves' of COVID-19 because of complacency and politicization

Wed, 2022-05-25 17:50 — mike kraft

Pfizer CEO predicts 'constant waves' of COVID-19 because of complacency around the coronavirus and the politicization of the pandemic The consequences of people's hesitancy to wear masks and get vaccinated will likely be seen over the next few months, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said. YahooNews

The world is likely to suffer from "constant waves" of COVID-19, the CEO of Pfizer said Wednesday.

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Opponents of federal employees vaccine mandate seek federal court rehearing

Tue, 2022-05-24 09:36 — mike kraft

Opponents of federal vaccine mandate seek rehearing NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court is being asked to reconsider its decision allowing the Biden administration to require that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19. A panel of the 5th U.S. AP NEWS

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V.P. Harris, U.S. surgeon general warn of health care worker burnout

Mon, 2022-05-23 19:25 — mike kraft

Harris, surgeon general warn of health care worker burnout WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris and U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued a warning Monday about burnout among the nation's health care staff after more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the potential for severe worker shortages in the years ahead if the situation is not addressed. AP NEWS

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People have checked out a little bit,” said Chris Jackson, senior vice president at the polling firm Ipsos. “People aren’t as tuned in

Mon, 2022-05-23 10:39 — mike kraft

As cases rise, Americans are ‘checked out’ on COVID-19 COVID-19 cases are on the rise, but many Americans are over thinking of the virus as a crisis. Even in blue cities, restaurants are packed with people, and many Americans don’t we… lvella The Hill

COVID-19 cases are on the rise, but many Americans are over thinking of the virus as a crisis.

Even in blue cities, restaurants are packed with people, and many Americans don’t wear masks even on the subway or on airplanes.

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Misinformation Doctors enjoy political platforms

Thu, 2022-05-19 19:44 — mike kraft

Misinformation Docs See Their Political Stars Rise Familiar names appear on speakers' lists for popular conservative rallies Kristina Fiore medpagetoday

Two of the most visible right-wing, conservative political movements in the U.S. right now -- "Defeat the Mandates" and the "ReAwaken America" tour -- have extensive involvement from physicians who have been flagged for spreading medical misinformation.

Their names often appear on the featured speakers' list at both events: Robert Malone, MD; Peter McCullough, MD; Pierre Kory, MD; and Simone Gold, MD, JD, among others.

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U.S. CDC advisers recommend COVID booster for children 5-11

Thu, 2022-05-19 16:07 — mike kraft

Scientific advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday recommended a booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children ages 5 to 11.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the agency’s director, is expected to sign off quickly on the committee’s recommendation. Children in this age group who received their last dose at least five months earlier will then be eligible to receive booster doses immediately.

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Analysis: U.S. counties that voted for Trump counties continue to suffer far higher COVID death tolls

Thu, 2022-05-19 08:40 — mike kraft

Pro-Trump counties continue to suffer far higher COVID death tolls

Even with widely available vaccines and newly effective treatments, residents of counties that went heavily for Donald Trump in the last presidential election are more than twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than those that live in areas that went for President Biden. That's according to a newly-updated analysis from NPR, examining how partisanship and misinformation are shaping the pandemic.

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NPR examined COVID deaths per 100,000 people in roughly 3,000 counties across the U.S. from May 2021, the point at which most Americans could find a vaccine if they wanted one. Those living in counties that voted 60% or higher for Trump in November 2020 had 2.26 times the death rate of those that went by the same margin for Biden. Counties with a higher share of Trump votes had even higher mortality rates.

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