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

BMJ

It is interesting, however, that despite an overall reduction in dispensing and prescribing of medications and devices requiring face-to-face visits, the influenza vaccine was unaffected, and the pneumococcal vaccine experienced record prescribing towards the end of 2020.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

Go back in your mind, November of 2020, COVID is at its peak, we don’t have vaccines quite yet. If someone needs imaging, if someone needs an MR, or CT, you bring them back to the hospital, so there’s some transport costs there. That started in November of 2020. Mass General, basically, became one big ICU.

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