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988 Contacted More Than 16 Million Times From Its Launch to December 2024

Physician's Weekly

per 1,000 is less than half that of the rate of adult emergency department visits that include a mental health diagnosis (53.0 . “The past-year 988 contact rate of 23.7 Abstract/Full Text Copyright © 2025 HealthDay. Abstract/Full Text Copyright © 2025 HealthDay. All rights reserved.

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

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Well, on today’s podcast we invite Monica Gandhi to sum up the evidence to date about how best to prevent getting COVID (or at least the severe outcomes of the disease) and how to treat it, including the role of Paxlovid in symptomatic disease. A good twitter criticism of the CDC 1 in 5 COVID survivors have long COVID study. Transcript. Alex: Great.