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Objective To estimate the effectiveness of the bivalent mRNA booster vaccines containing the original SARS-CoV-2 and omicron BA.4-5 or BA.1 subvariants as the fourth dose against severe covid-19. Design Nationwide cohort analyses, using target trial emulation. Setting Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, from 1 July 2022 to 10 April 2023. Participants People aged ≥50 years who had received at least three doses of covid-19 vaccine (that is, a primary course and a first booster). Main outcome m...

Objective To examine the association between the omicron adapted bivalent mRNA covid-19 booster vaccines received as a fourth dose and risk of adverse events. Design Nationwide cohort study. Setting Denmark. Participants 2 225 567 adults aged ≥50 years who received three covid-19 vaccine doses during the study period, 1 January 2021 to 10 December 2022. Main outcome measures The main outcome measure was rates of hospital visits for 27 different adverse events in a 28 day main risk period a...

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Objective To investigate the comparative vaccine effectiveness of heterologous booster schedules (ie, three vaccine doses) compared with primary schedules (two vaccine doses) and with homologous mRNA vaccine booster schedules (three vaccine doses) during a period of omicron predominance. Design Population based cohort analyses. Setting Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, 27 December 2020 to 31 December 2022. Participants All adults aged ≥18 years who had received at least a primary vaccinati...

Many complainants say that the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 (EPIRA) was a failure because it failed to lower the cost of electricity. Are these people familiar with the EPIRA and the power industry to foster this opinion? Well, read the law again. Nowhere in the EPIRA did…

Objectives To examine whether there is an association between people who experienced disrupted access to healthcare during the covid-19 pandemic and risk of an avoidable hospital admission. Design Observational analysis using evidence from seven linked longitudinal cohort studies for England. Setting Studies linked to electronic health records from NHS Digital from 1 March 2020 to 25 August 2022. Data were accessed using the UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration trusted research environment. Par...

Objective To review the evidence on trends and impacts of private equity (PE) ownership of healthcare operators. Design Systematic review. Data sources PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, Scopus, and SSRN. Eligibility criteria for study selection Empirical research studies of any design that evaluated PE owned healthcare operators. Main outcome measures The main outcome measures were impact of PE ownership on health outcomes, costs to patients or payers, costs to operators, and quality. The secondar...

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SM Prime Holdings, Inc. (SM Prime) and Citicore Renewable Energy Company (CREC) signed a Memorandum of Agreement on 11 July 2023 as a joint commitment to champion renewable energy.  Through this partnership, SM Prime will source its energy requirements of up to 90-Megawatts (MWac) from CREC’s upcoming Lumbangan Solar Power…