Archive: 26/02/2021
Push for better vaccine access as world cautiously looks ahead
Some of the world's most powerful countries issued a rare unified call for better vaccine access for poorer nations on Friday, as inoculation campaigns strengthened and governments cautiously envisioned a post-COVID future.
Feb 26, 2021
Researchers identify characteristics of highest utilizers for mental health hospital services
Dropping out of high school, having schizophrenia, or being diagnosed with a co-occurring personality disorder increases the likelihood of someone becoming a "high utilizer" of inpatient psychiatric hospital services, according ...
Feb 26, 2021
New tools find COVID patients at highest risk of mechanical ventilation and death
Two novel calculators for predicting which patients admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 are at greatest risk of requiring mechanical ventilation or of in-hospital death have been developed and validated by Massachusetts ...
Feb 26, 2021
US urges Tanzania to embrace COVID-19 vaccines, share data
The United States praised Tanzania on Friday for finally acknowledging the resurgence of COVID-19 after claiming for months it had defeated the pandemic through prayer. But the U.S. urged the country to share infection data ...
Feb 26, 2021