Delicate Covid Vaccines Slow Rollout — Leading to Shots Given Out of Turn or, Worse, Wasted
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Kaiser Health News - “Thaw. Rest 15 minutes. Do not shake. Do not refreeze.”Do not shake. Do not refreeze.” Moderna’s vaccine comes with complicated instructions. And both available...
Kaiser Health News - President Joe Biden is wasting no time getting to work. On his first day in office, Biden signed a series of executive orders addressing...
President @JoeBiden wasted no time getting down to work. Among the raft of executive orders he signed on Inauguration Day were several aimed at curtailing the covid crisis. #Listen to the latest episode of #podcast 'What The Health?' hosted by @jrovner. https://t.co/nLRKvjtbon
Door to Door in Miami’s Little Havana to Build Trust in Testing, Vaccination
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Kaiser Health News - It’s time-consuming but worthwhile: Residents respond to messages about Covid testing and vaccines when outreach teams speak their language and make a personal...
“Our mission is for all these people to get tested — regardless if they have a symptom or not — so we can diminish the level of people getting covid-19." 📝: @verozaragovia, @WLRN https://t.co/8CuTBBepkR
Advocates View Health Care as Key to Driving LGBTQ Rights Conversation
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Kaiser Health News - A state ban preventing local governments from enacting nondiscrimination ordinances expired Dec. 1, opening the door for a new wave of local nondiscrimination...
Surveys in North Carolina and across the nation show that about one-third of transgender people have been refused treatment or suffered verbal or physical abuse from a medical provider. 📝: @aneripattani https://t.co/OO5W0sHpN4
Kaiser Health News - In late December, then-President Donald Trump signed a law that eliminates — only for people with Lou Gehrig’s disease — the required five-month waiting...
“Can you imagine, one by one, people with these conditions trying to find people in the House and in the Senate to champion the bill?” said Carol Harnett, president of the @The_CDA. 📝: @mandrews110 https://t.co/P3bBby2TCW
Kaiser Health News - All kinds of new structures are popping up to extend the outdoor dining season. Some are safer than...
“The hospitality out here is exactly the same as it is in there,” Canlis said, gesturing to his restaurant, which overlooks Lake Union. “But that looks really different, so try to invite them into the ‘yurtiness’ of what we are doing.” 📝: @WStoneReports https://t.co/m2VAVz9rDN
Kaiser Health News - Those walking away free were facing years in prison for crimes of “unbounded...
RT @pash22: Trump’s Pardons Included US Health Care Execs Behind Massive @MedicareGov Frauds https://t.co/EmFEfVKPc6 via @FredSchulte
Kaiser Health News - Months after President Donald Trump credited monoclonal antibody therapy for his quick recovery from covid-19, only a trickle of the product has found its...
“The bottleneck here in the funnel is administration, not availability of the product,” said Dr. Janet Woodcock, a veteran FDA official in charge of therapeutics for the federal Operation Warp Speed effort. 📝: @JoNel_Aleccia https://t.co/PuccIDtLpu
Kaiser Health News - As covid patients flood California emergency rooms, hospitals are increasingly desperate to find enough staffers to care for them all. But some nurses worry...
“California was doing so well,” she said. “It was easy for all of us to believe that we kind of got it under control, and I think there was a lot of belief that we would be able to maintain that.” 📝: @adembosky https://t.co/ZQJUmdeIu3
Kaiser Health News - Public service announcements about drug use or other public health problems often fall short, public health marketing experts say, because they incite people’s worst...
Marketing experts say public health advertising often falls short because it incites people’s worst fears rather than providing clear steps viewers can take to save lives. 📝: @EricLBerger https://t.co/itbyqZMBwJ
During one recent clinic over several hours, Suri, a registered nurse, estimated she gave “maybe 25” shots, many fewer than the number of flu shots she’s given during similar clinics over the years. 📝: @rachanadixit https://t.co/ItkMKkBvvr