Hospitals

Study: COVID-19 hospital cases, deaths in nursing homes fell sharply after widespread vaccination Eighty-seven percent of hospitalizations and 89% of resident deaths took place before widespread vaccination. CIDRAP

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"Despite peak or near-peak outbreak duration and size in the winter surge that followed vaccination, the decline in severe outcomes observed upon vaccine introduction endured," the authors wrote.

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Clinical and Operational Changes in ED Management of COVID-19 The following is a summary of “Correlates of improved outcomes in patients with COVID-19 treated in US emergency departments,” published in the December 2024 issue of Emergency Medicine by Slutske et al. Researchers conducted a retrospective study to evaluate the impact of therapeutic advances during the COVID-19 pandemic on clinically relevant metrics of emergency care. Physician's Weekly Admin Physician's Weekly

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How the CDC could change under the next Trump administration If the new administration embraces proposals to cut the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's budget and its mission, the public health agency could look very different than it does today. NPR

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