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Episode 236: ARM Episode 16 – Live from SGIM: Best of Antiracism Research at the Society of General Internal Medicine’s 2022 Annual Meeting

The Clinical Problem Solvers

As she embarked on her project, she realized that improving serious illness care would require improving serious illness communication. link] November 17, 2020. December 17, 2020. Episode 6: Racism, Trustworthiness, and the COVID-19 Vaccine.” February 23, 2021.

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Factors associated with transmission across three waves of SARS-COV-2 in a community-based study of households with children [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting: Oregon School District, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA, between October 28, 2020, and May 16, 2022. Index case age, illness severity, and individual symptoms were not significantly associated with household transmission. behavior, vaccination) to reduce future transmission risk. 21.37] P=0.001).

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

BMJ

We sought to analyse how prescribing trends have changed over time, utilising a dataset containing all prescriptions signed and dispensed in the UK by primary care facilities from January 2014 to November 2020. 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 RFK Jr. Isn’t Talking About: How To Make Vaccines Safer

Physician's Weekly

Within an hour of receiving a covid vaccination in November 2020, Utah preschool teacher Brianne Dressen felt pins and needles through her arms and legs. While it’s possible that Nath’s patients suffered covid vaccine injuries, Marks said, their symptoms were so varied it was hard to characterize a possible syndrome.

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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

If you are interested in learning more and meeting a community of folks interested in hospital-at-home, check out the hospital-at-home user group at hahusersgroup.org or some of these publications: Hospital-Level Care at Home for Acutely Ill Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care.

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