Meanwhile at the CDC… We don’t have enough vaccine yet for all health care workers. We will eventually, but we don’t yet. Helen Keipp Talbot — who is known by her middle name — raised serious concerns during the meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices about using the vaccines in the frail elderly, […]
They examined the records of nearly 300,000 adults in the U.S. who had an initial atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease event between 2007 and 2016. These were divided into three groups: coronary heart disease, ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack, or peripheral artery disease. When people left the hospital or emergency department in 2007 following a first […]
An October 2 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report documented COVID-19’s demographic changes. Between May and July, the median age of confirmed US cases fell from 46 years to 37 years. The pandemic’s age distribution had already shifted by June, when new cases were highest among people aged 20 […]
There’s another extremely simple thing that might help reduce COVID transmission – quieting down. This is a bit of a sensitive topic, because we all talk. And sometimes we all talk too loudly. But hospitals are filling up so, well, it’s time to talk about talking. Human beings are wind instrument that generate aerosols. Small […]
