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WASHINGTON The federal government needs to make it easier for community health centers and other vaccine distribution locations to report on how many vaccines they have distributed, Lathran Woodard told the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on the coronavirus crisis. We re having provider burnout because of the hassle of having to individually enter each vaccine, Woodard, who is board chairman of the National Association of Community Health Centers, said at a briefing Friday on ensuring equity in coronavirus vaccinations. The flip side is we re getting less vaccine supplies because vaccine suppliers base their next shipment on how many vaccines a particular facility has already distributed, and the slow manual entry process means that facilities are appearing to distribute far fewer vaccines than they actually have administered.
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Transgender and gender-diverse patients have unique healthcare needs, and ob/gyn physicians should educate themselves so they can provide appropriate, inclusive, and affirming care, an American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) committee said.
Providers should discuss patients fertility desires as early as possible in the transition process, and ensure that contraceptive options are offered beyond gender-affirming hormone therapy, according to a report from ACOG s Committee on Gynecologic Practice and Committee on Health Care for Underserved Women.
The document, which is also published in
Obstetrics & Gynecology, notes that medications for gender transition can be safely prescribed by a wide range of providers who have the appropriate education and training including ob/gyns and no specific prescribing certification is needed to provide care.
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Last week s revised CDC guidance on how schools may operate during the COVID-19 pandemic got generally good marks from pediatricians and public health specialists even though teachers representatives were less than enthusiastic.
The new guidelines tie decisions around phased reopenings to rates of COVID-19 transmission in the community and prioritize masking and physical distancing over other mitigation measures.
Danielle Dooley, MD, a pediatrician at Children s National in Washington, D.C., and a spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), applauded the guidance for underscoring the importance of in-person learning for students. I think the CDC is really taking a holistic look at how children are doing throughout the pandemic and recognizing the huge impact that school closures are having on kids, Dooley told