Mukkamala, who is past chair of the Michigan State Medical Society and also co-owns restaurants in downtown Flint, had questions of his own:
Who will enforce this? Will restaurant staffers be expected to ask patrons if they’ve gotten the shot? Scientifically it makes perfect sense, Mukkamala said of Whitmer s new order, which follows guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and reflects data showing vaccine recipients are much less likely to contract or get sick when they are exposed to the virus.
“When you look at the people that are ending up in the hospital now, it s 99 percent of them are people that have not been vaccinated.”
While states continue to relax COVID-19 mitigation measures, concerns about vaccine uptake continue.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s (CDC s) announcement that people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 do not have to use masks in most settings has prompted some states to drop mask mandates. Others, however, have said they need to take time to look at their state s specific COVID situation, and health experts, state and local governments, business owners, and the public have had similar guarded reactions. I wouldn t want to declare victory [over COVID-19] prematurely, but I m saying this is clearly a step in the direction that we want to go, Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN s Jake Tapper.
ASM joined partners in submitting the following request to Congress.
Dear Chairman Leahy, Vice Chairman Shelby, Chair Murray and Ranking Member Blunt
cc: Chair DeLauro, Ranking Member Granger and Ranking Member Cole:
We, the undersigned organizations, respectfully request that you provide $60 million for the Advanced Molecular Detection (AMD) program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies bill. The AMD program uses next generation sequencing (NGS) to bring the concept of precision medicine to bear for “precision public health.”
AMD gives us new tools to detect disease faster, identify outbreaks sooner, and protect people from emerging and evolving disease threats. It informs vaccine development, helps identify and track antimicrobial resistance and foodborne illness, and informs the development of diagnostics for new, existing and emerging diseases. AMD has played a
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Italian Team Led by Dr. Gabriele Messina To Share Novel Operating Room Research Using the UVDI-360 Room Sanitizer at SHEA 2021
UltraViolet Devices, Inc. (UVDI), a global leader in Ultraviolet Air and Surface disinfection, announced new research demonstrating the UVDI-360 Room Sanitizer s rapid disinfection of operating rooms between surgical procedures will be presented at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) Spring Conference, taking place April 13-16, 2021.
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In the University of Siena research, the UVDI-360 Room Sanitizer effectively inactivated germs in operating rooms in six minutes. (Photo: Business Wire)