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UnitedHealth hack takes toll on healthcare providers to the American poor

Wed, 2024-03-20 10:44 — mike kraft

UnitedHealth hack takes toll on healthcare providers to the nation's poor The ransomware attack on UnitedHealth that has disrupted payments to U.S. doctors and healthcare facilities nationwide for a month, has taken an especially harsh toll on the community health centers that serve more than 30 million poor and uninsured patients. Julie Steenhuysen Reuters

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Marking the fading of the COVID pandemic, the U.S. NIH is shelving its COVID treatment guidelines

Wed, 2024-03-20 10:16 — mike kraft

In a pandemic milestone, the NIH ends guidance on COVID treatment The National Institutes of Health is sunsetting its influential COVID-19 treatment guidelines, used by millions of doctors to guide care during the pandemic. NPR

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The last version of the NIH's COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines was issued in February. The archives of the guidance — available online until August — document how scientific understanding and technological progress evolved during the pandemic.

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Measles: AMA and CDC health experts plead for unvaxxed Americans to get measles shot as cases rises

Wed, 2024-03-20 10:06 — mike kraft

Health experts plead for unvaxxed Americans to get measles shot as cases rise The US hit last year's total in under 12 weeks, suggesting we're in for a bad time. Beth Mole Ars Technica

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Measles: WHO says it is critical to catch up vaccinations to stem current outbreaks

Wed, 2024-03-20 10:00 — mike kraft

'Critical' to catch up on measles vaccinations to stem outbreaks, says WHO Vaccinating children who missed their measles shots during the COVID-19 pandemic is critical, a senior World Health Organization official said on Tuesday, as outbreaks of the infectious disease increase worldwide. Jennifer Rigby Reuters

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The world’s 100 worst polluted cities are in Asia — and 83 of them are in India

Tue, 2024-03-19 10:23 — mike kraft

The world’s 100 worst polluted cities are in Asia — and 83 of them are in just one country | CNN All but one of the 100 cities with the world’s worst air pollution last year were in Asia, according to a new report, with the climate crisis playing a pivotal role in bad air quality that is risking the health of billions of people worldwide. Helen Regan CNN

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Analysis of Pandemic School Closures, Four Years Later

Tue, 2024-03-19 10:09 — mike kraft

Four years ago this month, schools nationwide began to shut down, igniting one of the most polarizing and partisan debates of the pandemic.

Some schools, often in Republican-led states and rural areas, reopened by fall 2020. Others, typically in large cities and states led by Democrats, would not fully reopen for another year.

A variety of data — about children’s academic outcomes and about the spread of Covid-19 — has accumulated in the time since. Today, there is broad acknowledgment among many public health and education experts that extended school closures did not significantly stop the spread of Covid, while the academic harms for children have been large and long-lasting.

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