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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. Why was I spending all this time figuring out the detailed differential diagnosis of these obscure diseases when we weren’t actually attending to what people really needed? HPV vaccine.

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

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Darrell: Then I had another one that was much later in the process that was actually vaccinated, who was over 90, who had a lot of medical issues. Darrell: Then our second surge in November pre-vaccination, were a lot of adult family homes, residential care homes. These are vaccinated folks who come in.

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Whoop! There It Is: A Pertinent Pediatric Pertussis Podcast

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In this episode of PEM Currents: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Podcast , we explore pertussis, also known as whooping cough – a disease that remains a public health challenge despite widespread vaccination efforts. Pertussis infection in infants and children: Clinical features and diagnosis. link] UpToDate Yeh S et al.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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The other way to think about who’s eligible… I talked about coming at this from a diagnosis point of view, people with certain conditions that you need to be hospitalized for. Go back in your mind, November of 2020, COVID is at its peak, we don’t have vaccines quite yet. That started in November of 2020.

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