California Begins Vaccinating Inmates, but Not at Its Hardest-Hit Prisons
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Los Angeles County has seen a spike in cases. India approves two vaccines. Researchers say Africa’s relatively low case numbers are probably inaccurate.
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Elected officials, prison rights advocates and inmates’ family members protested for better conditions outside San Quentin State Prison in July. Credit.Jim Wilson/The New York Times
California’s prison system, which has been exceptionally hard-hit by the coronavirus, has started vaccinating some inmates but none so far at the 25 prisons that have been most overwhelmed by infections, including San Quentin, Avenal State Prison and the California Institution for Men.
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Extremely small newborns tolerated a restrictive red blood cell transfusion strategy for anemia in the multicenter TOP trial.
Around 2 years of age, infants had similar rates of either death or survival but with neurodevelopmental impairment (i.e., cognitive delay, cerebral palsy, hearing, or vision loss) whether they had been randomized to higher or lower hemoglobin thresholds for transfusion in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) shortly after birth (50.1% vs 49.8%, adjusted RR 1.00, 95% CI 0.92-1.10).
The individual components of death (16.2% vs 15.0%) and neurodevelopmental impairment (39.6% vs 40.3%) were no different between the higher and lower hemoglobin strategies, respectively, according to a group led by Haresh Kirpalani, MD, MSc, of Children s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Why isn’t more Covid-19 vaccine available immediately?
To truly control the pandemic, most people around the world need to be vaccinated against Covid-19. That’s a tall order involving billions of shots.
By the end of this year, only about 70 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer and BioNTech and from Moderna and the National Institutes of Health are expected to be shipped out worldwide. Next year, that number will jump to more than 1 billion. Other companies are also working on vaccines, but some populations still might not gain access until 2024.
In the meantime, the death toll continues to rise.
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Kelley Cutler was deeply skeptical when she took part in a month-long pilot test of Reveri Health, a new digital hypnosis program, at Stanford University last year. The San Francisco social worker needed help quitting smoking, and only joined the program at her doctorâs urging.
âI was thinking it was nonsense and was never going to work,â says Ms. Cutler, 44, who had smoked for 25 years. Her first hypnosis session, which took place in person with a clinician, was so anxiety-producing that she had to have a cigarette afterward.
Reveri Health, one of a new generation of hypnosis programs and apps that make the practice easily accessible at home, then required her to take part in interactive, self-hypnosis sessions at home for a month. After two of the digital sessions, she was shocked to discover that she no longer felt like smoking. âThe craving was really gone,â she says. âI canât explain it. It doesnât make sen
To truly control the pandemic, most people around the world need to be vaccinated against COVID-19. That’s a tall order involving billions of shots.
By the end of this year, only about 70 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and BioNTech and from Moderna and the National Institutes of Health are expected to be shipped out worldwide. Next year, that number will jump to more than 1 billion. Other companies are also working on vaccines, but some populations still might not gain access until 2024.
In the meantime, the death toll continues to rise.
So why can’t doses be pumped out and distributed faster?