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Should we prioritize the unvaccincated for treatment? Govind Persad and Emily Largent

GeriPal

They argue that the current guidelines, which prioritize immunocompromised people and unvaccinated older people on the same level, should be re-done to prioritize the immunocompromised first, and additionally move up older vaccinated individuals or vaccinated persons with comorbidities. It’s shaming on vaccinated people.

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FDA-Approved Labeling: Is Enough Enough?

FDA Law Blog

Brand drugs, generic drugs, and medical devices alike have all been the target of state failure-to-warn litigation; in a recent case, OTC acetaminophen is the target. Most OTC drugs, particularly drugs that have been around for a while, are primarily marketed pursuant to OTC monographs.

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Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model

BMJ

Increased health anxiety has been a feature of the pandemic, with fears around leaving the home, social distancing, hand hygiene, and shortages of goods and medications due to panic buying commonplace. Despite the spike in prescribing of insulins, oral antidiabetic medications were not similarly affected.

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COVID Updates: A Podcast with Peter Chin-Hong and Lona Mody

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary In March 2020, we launched our first podcast on COVID-19. My wish was for better randomized evidence for vaccines and treatments, though I worry this might not be feasible. My wish was for better randomized evidence for vaccines and treatments, though I worry this might not be feasible.

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What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

GeriPal

Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. Summary Transcript Summary.

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

GeriPal

We’ve lived through lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, mask mandates, hospital surges where ICU’s overflowed, a million COVID deaths, prolonged school closures, development and roll out of novel vaccines, an explosion of social isolation and loneliness, and the invention of the “zoom meeting.” . Their vaccines aren’t as effective.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. And we then did a bunch of work to develop medical criteria, to choose the right patients for hospital-at-home. That started in November of 2020. Go back in your mind, November of 2020, COVID is at its peak, we don’t have vaccines quite yet.

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