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Topic: Public Health Policy and Practice
January 12, 2021
Empiric Evidence of Ethnic Disparities in Coronavirus Positivity in Washington State
Minority groups experienced higher rates of SARS-CoV-2 positivity compared to white patients in Washington State during the first wave of the pandemic (n=18,667). Latinx patients had nearly a 5-fold risk of positivity compared to white patients, while Black patients had nearly a 2-fold risk of positivity. Notably, 22% of Latinx patients had self-pay insurance compared…
Attendance at London Workplaces after Symptom Onset: A Retrospective Cohort Study of Staff Members with Confirmed COVID-19
32% of workers diagnosed with COVID-19 went to the workplace even after the onset of symptoms, based on a cohort of 130 symptomatic COVID-19 cases in London. Compared to females, males were 66% less likely to attend the workplace after onset of COVID-19 symptoms. Age and occupation were not associated with workplace attendance after symptom…
Trends in Pediatric Hospitalizations for Coronavirus Disease 2019
Rates of pediatric hospitalization for COVID-19 showed significant variation across 22 states from May to November 2020. In May, Hawaii and Rhode Island had the lowest pediatric hospitalization rates (0 per 100,000) while New Jersey and Colorado had the highest (5 and 4.4 per 100,000 children, respectively). In November, Hawaii and New Hampshire had the…
January 11, 2021
Health Websites on COVID-19: Are They Readable and Credible Enough to Help Public Self-Care?
A study evaluating the readability of websites with COVID-19-related information found reading levels were suitable for high school graduates or college students, which is higher than the recommended readability level. Search terms “coronavirus,” “COVID,” and “COVID-19” were input into Google, and the first thirty website results for each search term were evaluated. Most websites (87.2%)…
Antibiotic Prescribing in Patients with COVID-19: Rapid Review and Meta-Analysis
A rapid review and meta-analysis (n=154 studies, 30,623 patients) concluded that three quarters of patients with COVID-19 received antibiotics, which was significantly higher than the prevalence of bacterial co-infection (8.6% from 31 studies). Antibiotic prescribing was lower in children (prevalence OR = 0.10) compared to adults, and higher with increasing patient age (OR 1.45 per…
January 8, 2021
Effectiveness of Physical Distancing: Staying 6 Feet Over to Put Respiratory Viruses 6 Feet Under
Results from an analysis of 13,324 nasopharyngeal swabs collected at a single hospital in Arizona between January 1, 2017, and July 31, 2020, found a significant reduction in the detection of respiratory viruses other than SARS-CoV-2, coinciding with the implementation of distancing and masking policies during the COVID-19 pandemic. The average monthly positivity rate for…
Misinformation about COVID-19: Evidence for Differential Latent Profiles and a Strong Association with Trust in Science
Agley et al. found that believing misinformation about SARS-CoV-2 may not keep people from simultaneously believing in the scientifically accepted explanation for the novel virus’s origins. Among a sample of 660 US-based users of Mechanical Turk (MTurk), 70% of people believed the scientific consensus about the virus originating in animals and rejected related conspiracy theories….
January 7, 2021
Comparison of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests and Fatalities in the Metro Detroit Area During the COVID-19 Pandemic With Previous-Year Events
The Michigan emergency medical services (EMS) Information System identified 1,854 out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) calls between March to May 2020, a 60% increase from the same period in 2019. Though the spike in OHCAs closely mirror the COVID-19 epidemic curve with a slight lag, it is not clear from these data whether COVID-19 infections directly…
January 6, 2021
Estimation of US SARS-CoV-2 Infections, Symptomatic Infections, Hospitalizations, and Deaths Using Seroprevalence Surveys
A cross-sectional study using data from both public health surveillance records of reported COVID-19 cases and seroprevalence surveys found that an estimated 46,910,006 SARS-CoV-2 infections, 28,122,752 symptomatic infections, 956,174 hospitalizations, and 304,915 deaths occurred in the US through November 15, 2020. The authors note that 14% of the US population was infected with SARS-CoV-2 by…
Allergic Reactions Including Anaphylaxis After Receipt of the First Dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine — United States, December 14 – 23, 2020
Monitoring by the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System detected 21 cases of anaphylaxis after administration of 1,893,360 first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine (11.1 cases per million doses); 71% of these occurred within 15 minutes of vaccination. 17 of 21 anaphylaxis episodes were among persons with a documented history of allergies or allergic reactions,…
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