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News
California’s highest COVID infection rates shift to rural counties
July 8, 2021
“If you live in an area that has low vaccination rates and you have a few people who start to develop a disease, it’s going to spread quickly among those who aren’t vaccinated.”
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Delta becomes dominant coronavirus variant in U.S.
July 7, 2021
Health officials are watching other variants (Epsilon and Lambda) that could evade vaccine protection and lead to major outbreaks this year.
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Opinion
‘If only you knew’
July 7, 2021
Dr. Mehta dedicates this poem to the tired, burnt-out hospitalists on the wards everywhere.
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Antimicrobial resistance threat continues during COVID-19
July 6, 2021
For some patients, the pandemic and antimicrobial resistance are intertwined.
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Default EMR settings can influence opioid prescribing
July 6, 2021
Does changing the EMR default setting for opioid prescriptions change the quantity of opioids prescribed at discharge from the emergency department?
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Asymptomatic C. diff carriers have increased risk of symptomatic infection
July 6, 2021
Do admitted patients who are asymptomatic carriers of Clostridioides difficile progress to symptomatic C. difficile?
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News
Clinician practices to connect with patients
July 2, 2021
What practices foster physician presence and connection with their patients?
News
New details of myocarditis linked to COVID vaccines
July 2, 2021
Further details from multiple cases of myocarditis linked to the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA COVID vaccines have been described in recent papers in the medical literature.
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Hotspotting does not reduce readmissions
July 1, 2021
Does the addition of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Provider’s care-transition program prevent hospital readmission in high utilizers of health care services?
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Almost all U.S. COVID-19 deaths now in the unvaccinated
June 30, 2021
Of more than 18,000 people who died from COVID-19, only about 150 were fully vaccinated. That’s less than 1%.
