The Healthcare Leadership Council issued the following news:
Experts from across healthcare have identified specific policy and regulatory recommendations to improve the nation s ability to prepare for and respond to future health crises. The recommendations are part of a new report released by the
Healthcare Leadership Council and
Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy and result from collaboration with more than 100 private-sector, nonprofit, and government organizations and stakeholders to assess the response to COVID-19 and the nation s existing disaster preparedness infrastructure.
The recommendations include some temporary steps taken to address the COVID-19 pandemic, which have proven beneficial and should be made permanent going forward, the experts say. These include making it easier for public and private organizations to work in partnership, prioritizing supply chain readiness before crises arise, streamlining regulations that allow providers to practice medicine whe
Getting a second Covid-19 vaccine dose? Your side effects could be much more significant this time.
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Many people who ve received two-dose Covid-19 vaccines say the second dose spurs much more significant side effects than the first, Katherine Wu reports for
The Atlantic but that just means the vaccines are doing what they re designed to do, experts say.
As Wu reports, the two-dose vaccines developed by
Pfizer and
BioNTech and
Moderna use mRNA wrapped in lipid nanoparticles to instruct the body s cells to create the spike protein found on the new coronavirus.
That protein elicits a strong antibody response, which in turn allows the immune system to learn the features of the protein so it can better fight the virus in the future.
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Once Upon a Time in Central Florida AFAR 2/3/2021
Courtesy of Give Kids the World Village
Duels are common at the weekly pirate party inside the Village. (All photos were taken prepandemic, and masks are now required.)The world’s most magical place is not somewhere you would ever hope to go. Admittance is sacred, special, and limited to the very few who are lucky enough to receive an all-expenses-paid trip to central Florida to be fêted as guests of honor, though some might say it is a very lack of luck or felicity that brought them here: a damning of atoms, a genetic wild card. To be lucky enough to visit this place, you will be unlucky enough to be a child with a critical illness, or someone in their constellation. But here, at Give Kids the World Village, these illnesses seem to matter a little less, if only for a week. Here you fly. Here, you are in most excellent company.
BY Nebraska Department of Health & Human Services | February 3, 2021
Courtesy/Nebraska Department of Health & Human Services Facebook live post (L-R) Dr. Tom Safranek, Dr. Gary Anthone.
Lincoln – Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Chief Executive Officer Dannette R. Smith and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Gary Anthone are announcing that Dr. Tom Safranek, currently a special assistant to CEO’s office and the state’s longtime epidemiologist, has retired. Tuesday, February 2, 2021 marked his final day with the Department.
“Throughout the pandemic, Dr. Safranek has helped to keep DHHS current on developing infectious disease processes or outbreaks in Nebraska, the U.S. and globally,” said Smith, noting that Safranek joined the agency in 1990 as state epidemiologist. “In addition to supporting the Office of the CEO, he has also worked closely