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News Articles: Medical Treatments

The incoming Biden administration has plans to speed up distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, by not holding doses in reserve.

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  • Health

Biden's Plan To Release More Vaccine Is A Gamble. Is It Worth The Risk?

Experts argue that pushing out more COVID-19 vaccine doses to states sooner may be a good idea, even if it means there's a chance some people's second dose gets delayed.

January 09, 2021
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin and
  • Rob Stein
U.S. COVID-19 vaccination programs are off to a slow start, but with more funding, better coordination and public awareness campaigns, things could speed up, experts say.

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  • Health

Here's How The U.S. Can Jump Start Its Sluggish COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout

With case and death counts still surging, the pressure is on to vaccinate as many people as possible. Here's what it will take to get more Americans their shots, fast.

January 09, 2021
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin and
  • Pien Huang
GPB News NPR

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  • Medical Treatments

Biden Plans To Stop Holding Back COVID-19 Vaccines

President-elect Biden plans to release almost all available doses of COVID-19 vaccines, stepping away from the Trump administration policy to hold back about half of the supplies for booster shots.

January 08, 2021
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By:
  • Rob Stein
On Dec. 14, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice was one of the first U.S. elected officials to get immunized against COVID-19. The state has since completed a first round of shots in all long-term care facilities, as well as front-line health workers.

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  • Health

Why West Virginia's Winning The Race To Get COVID-19 Vaccine Into Arms

To get vaccines into long-term care facilities, West Virginia was the only state to opt out of a federal partnership with CVS and Walgreens. Instead, a network of smaller pharmacies got a jump-start.

January 08, 2021
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By:
  • Yuki Noguchi
Nurse Janet Gilleran prepares to treat COVID-19 patient Mike Mokler with bamlanivimab, a monoclonal antibody drug from Eli Lilly, at the Respiratory Infection Clinic of Tufts Medical Center in Boston on Dec. 31, 2020.

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  • Health

Doctors Encouraged By Antibody Treatments For COVID-19

While logistical challenges have hampered use of antibody drugs to treat people with mild-to-moderate COVID-19, recent results show the medicines can be worthwhile.

January 06, 2021
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By:
  • Richard Harris
By the end of the day, more people received an injection on Monday than have been vaccinated since the start of the vaccine program on Dec. 18, Judson Howe, president of Adventist Health said.

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  • Medical Treatments

Hospital Scrambles To Find Patients Before Freezer Failure Ruins 830 Vaccines

The crisis starts around 2 a.m. at a hospital in Mendocino County, Calif. A compressor gives out, giving the staff two hours to use the coronavirus vaccines before they are declared unusable.

January 05, 2021
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, shown in red, have heavily infected a cell in this colorized scanning electron micrograph. SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes COVID-19.

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  • Health

How COVID-19 Attacks The Brain And May Cause Lasting Damage

Severe cases of COVID-19 can injure the brain in ways that affect memory, thinking and mood for months after the infection is gone, new research hints. It may even raise the risk of Alzheimer's.

January 05, 2021
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By:
  • Jon Hamilton
Hospitals must now post on their websites, in a consumer-friendly format, the specific costs for 300 common and "shoppable" services, such as having a baby, getting a joint replacement, having a hernia repaired or undergoing a diagnostic brain scan.

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  • Health

Hospitals Forced To Be More Transparent About Pricing. Will That Save You Money?

Under a rule that kicked in Jan. 1, hospitals must now make public the prices they negotiate with health insurers. But health policy experts have divergent views on what that will mean for patients.

January 05, 2021
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By:
  • Julie Appleby
The FDA has learned of reports that some health care facilities are trying to stretch the number of limited doses by cutting them in half, extending the length of time between doses, or mixing and matching vaccines in order to immunize more people against COVID-19.

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  • Medical Treatments

FDA Warns Health Officials Not To Mess With COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Schedule

Agency officials said reducing the number of doses creates a potential for harm in patients because "they may assume that they are fully protected when they are not" and may "take unnecessary risks."

January 04, 2021
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Steven Brandenburg, who worked as a pharmacist with the Advocate Aurora Health hospital system, has admitted he deliberately removed 57 vials of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine from refrigeration and left them out overnight on Dec. 24 and again on Dec. 25.

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  • Law

Pharmacist Who Spoiled More Than 500 Vaccine Doses Said He Thought They Were 'Unsafe'

"He'd formed this belief they were unsafe," prosecutors said Monday. They also disclosed that colleagues of the now-fired pharmacist, Steven Brandenburg, reported he had twice taken a gun to work.

January 04, 2021
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Minnesota has administered about 39% of the vaccine doses it has received. About 1.5% of the state's population has been vaccinated.

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  • National

Minnesota Health Official Says Vaccine Rollout Hasn't Been As Bad As It Seems

Kris Ehresmann of the Minnesota Department of Health says the holidays were a big reason that not as many people were vaccinated as had been planned.

January 04, 2021
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By:
  • Ailsa Chang and
  • James Doubek
Fear of having to go to the ER during a pandemic might have led kids with asthma to be more careful about regularly using their "controller" inhalers, researchers suspect. But that's likely only one factor in the decline in ER visits.

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  • Health

What Drove The Drop In Kids' Asthma ER Visits At A Boston Hospital During Lockdown?

Boston Children's Hospital saw a precipitous drop in cases during the spring shutdown, and the trend continues. Researchers are asking why — and what it would take to keep up the change post-pandemic.

January 04, 2021
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By:
  • Kristen Kendrick
Medical Minute

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  • Medical Treatments

Medical Minute: BMI Index and Disease

This week’s Medical Minute, discusses a study finding those with a higher body mass index, or “BMI” tend to do better with some diseases than normal or underweight individuals … even when they are admitted to intensive care.

January 02, 2021
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By:
  • GPB News Staff
Dr. Nikhila Juvvadi gives Dr. Marina Del Rios from the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System one of the first COVID-19 vaccination administered in Chicago on Dec. 15 at Loretto Hospital on the city's West Side.

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  • Health Care

Some Health Care Workers Are Hesitant About Getting COVID-19 Vaccines

Dr. Nikhila Juvvadi, chief clinical officer at a Chicago hospital, says about 40 percent of the staff distrust the vaccines — in part because of deep-rooted cultural mistrust based on past abuses.

January 01, 2021
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By:
  • Christopher Dean Hopkins and
  • Ashish Valentine
The Florida Department of Health said officials are working alongside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to figure out how a 20-something-year-old man contracted the new, more contagious coronavirus strain that was first discovered in the U.K.

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  • Health

Florida Becomes 3rd U.S. State To Identify New Coronavirus Variant

"The individual is a male in his 20s with no history of travel. The Department is working with the CDC on this investigation," Florida Department of Health officials announced Thursday.

December 31, 2020
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
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