The U.S. new cases 7-day rolling average are 9.8 % LOWER than the 7-day rolling average one week ago and U.S. deaths due to coronavirus are now 3.5 %
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U.S. Coronavirus New Cases are 49,930
U.S. Coronavirus deaths are at 738
U.S. Coronavirus immunizations have been administered to 73.4 doses per 100 people.
The 7-day rolling average rate of growth of the pandemic shows new cases worsened and deaths worsened
Report of Adverse Events Related to the Corona Vaccine, April 2021: Never has a vaccine injured so many
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Overdose rates were two-and-a-half times higher among patients who filled a prescription for an opioid medication after a dental procedure, compared with those who didn’t, according to a new study.
Overdose rates were also higher among the family members of these patients possibly from misuse of the leftover pills.
For the study, researchers used data from 8.5 million dental procedures in teen and adult patients between 2011 and 2018 whose care Medicaid or private dental insurance covered. Nearly 27% of these patients filled a prescription for an opioid such as hydrocodone or oxycodone.
The researchers identified 2,700 overdoses that occurred in the 90 days after a tooth extraction or 119 other dental procedures. That works out to about three overdoses for every 10,000 dental procedures. The rate was 5.8 per 10,000 among those who filled an opioid prescription within three days of their procedure, compared with 2.2 per 10,000 among those who didn’t.
The vast majority of teens and young adults say they’re willing to get the COVID-19 vaccine or have gotten it already, a poll finds.
But as with older generations, a shrinking but still sizable minority of people age 14 to 24 say they’re not willing to get vaccinated, or that their decision will depend on safety.
The data, from the text message-based MyVoice national survey of youth based at the University of Michigan, appear in the
Journal of Adolescent Medicine, and supplemented by new polling data just received in the past week.
Eric Brandt, lead author of the new paper, notes that in the first MyVoice survey in October 2020, 76% of the 911 teens and young adults said they were willing to get vaccinated, though that included 33% who said their ultimate decision would depend on additional information. At that time, 20% of young people said they were unwilling to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
Credit: University of Michigan
Convenience and access win out over reputation when people over 50 look for a doctor for themselves, a new study finds.
But online ratings and reviews of physicians play an important role, and should receive attention from providers and policymakers, the researchers say.
About 20% of older adults called such ratings very important to them, but 43% said they had checked such reviews in the past for physicians they were considering for themselves.
Still, factors like insurance acceptance, appointment availability, location and hours won out over reputational information, although about 40% said a recommendation from another physician was very important to them. Recommendations from family and friends were rated as very important by about 20% of older adults.
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