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Children’s COVID-19 Vaccine: A Key to Protecting Pediatric Asthma Patients

HIT Consultant

What Has Everyone Excited about COVID-19 Vaccines for 5-11-year-olds? With the rollout this month of the COVID-19 vaccine for those 5-11 years of age, we can now directly protect children with asthma for whom COVID-19 infection is an even bigger hazard for our children during the pandemic.

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Reflections on Procedural Barriers to Pediatric COVID Vaccine Access

Bill of Health

That community quickly grew into “ Protect Their Future ,” a grassroots group consisting of over 2,000 physicians, scientists, and parents passionately organizing so that children are prioritized and get access to COVID vaccines. Protect Their Future created a space where doctors and parents could advocate with a unified voice.

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Carceral Health Care Is Designed to Fail

Bill of Health

We know that incarcerated patients often present at younger ages with more advanced stages of disease when seen by external health care providers. And we know that our prisons, jails, and detention centers employ doctors with suspended and limited licenses as the exclusive source for health care for incarcerated people.

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Roundup: India's CoWIN to track all vax status and more briefs

Healthcare It News

The Indian government is upgrading its COVID-19 vaccination platform, CoWIN, to digitally track people's vaccination status against common preventable diseases, including measles, rubella and COVID-19. India upgrades CoWIN to track all vax status.

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Cerner CEO pledges to zero-out 'noise' from EHRs, population health and revenue cycle

Healthcare It News

And last year, a COVID-19 vaccine was researched, developed and deployed almost four years ahead of the normal timeline for a new vaccine." That noise she referred to as having to know when your last colonoscopy was instead of your doctor having that at their fingertips.

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‘We Want Them Infected’: An Excerpt from Jonathan Howard’s New Book on the COVID-19 Pandemic

Bill of Health

Even before the first wave peaked, doctors suggested the worst was over and that measures to control the virus were more dangerous than the virus itself. In February 2021 they recorded “The End of the Pandemic” 5 where listeners heard that “a UCSF infectious disease doctor is convinced this pandemic is ending, and sooner than you think.”

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Healthcare, Heal Thyself! How the Industry Can and Should Play the Trust Card

Health Populi

The emergence of the COVID-19 vaccine “infodemic” has slowed the ability for nations around the world to emerge out of the public health crisis. in the voices of public health, the public sector, and media. This is a global challenge as well, which the first bar chart illustrates.