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With a vulnerable population, centralized care, and a strong system in place for other shots, dialysis providers argue that they should be part of the early rollout with higher prioritization for their patients. I have talked to dialysis providers large and small across the country, and it is a unanimous opinion that we would like to be able to vaccinate our patients, in our facilities, by our staff, said Jeffrey Silberzweig, MD, co-chair of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) COVID-19 Response Team.
End-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients are among the most vulnerable populations for poor outcomes of COVID-19. They had the highest rate of COVID-19 hospitalization among all Medicare beneficiaries four-fold that of other age-matched seniors; their COVID-19 mortality rate was 25-fold that of other Medicare beneficiaries the same age.
Gaps in Data Make It Impossible to Know Who Got the Vaccine medscape.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from medscape.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Rachana Pradhan, Fred Schulte, Kaiser Health News
Jan 28, 2021
As they rush to vaccinate millions of Americans, health officials are struggling to collect critically important information such as race, ethnicity and occupation of every person they jab.
The data being collected is so scattered that there’s little insight into which health care workers, or first responders, have been among the people getting the initial vaccines, as intended or how many doses instead have gone to people who should be much further down the list.
The gaps which experts say reflect decades of underfunding of public health programs could mean that well-connected people and health personnel who have no contact with patients are getting vaccines before front-line workers, who are at much higher risk for illness. Federal and state officials prioritized health workers plus residents and staffs of nursing homes for the first wave of shots.
Huge gaps in vaccine data make it next to impossible to know who got the shots
As they rush to vaccinate millions of Americans, health officials are struggling to collect critically important information such as race, ethnicity and occupation of every person they jab.
The data being collected is so scattered that there s little insight into which health care workers, or first responders, have been among the people getting the initial vaccines, as intended or how many doses instead have gone to people who should be much further down the list.
The gaps which experts say reflect decades of underfunding of public health programs could mean that well-connected people and health personnel who have no contact with patients are getting vaccines before front-line workers, who are at much higher risk for illness. Federal and state officials prioritized health workers plus residents and staffs of nursing homes for the first wave of shots.
Data gaps make it hard to know if priority health workers got vaccines first msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.