Dive Brief: Erosion in the volume of hospital inpatient admissions during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic was remarkably uniform, a study published Thursday in Health Affairs concluded. The volumes began to bounce back significantly in June. However, there were some differences among demographic groups. Admissions among patients living in majority Black and Latino… Read More »
Jacob Jeppson, Director of Analysis, Arch Collaborative, KLAS In a time when it seemed we couldn’t have been further apart, what we needed was to come together — intellectually speaking, that is. At the beginning of the pandemic, before everything shut down, we were fortunate enough to be preparing for our committee meetings with Arch… Read More »
Jacqueline Dunlap places whole blood samples into a centrifuge to separate plasma for antibody testing at the Bloodworks Northwest Laboratory during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Renton, Washington, September 9, 2020. Lindsey Wasson | Reuters Fewer than 1 in 10 Americans showed signs of a prior coronavirus infection as of late July, suggesting that… Read More »
Health officials have linked a multi-state salmonella outbreak to a recalled variety of mushrooms that were previously available across 32 states and Canada. The mushrooms, distributed by California-based Wismettac Asian Foods Inc, are a black fungus variety also called wood ear mushrooms. The outbreak has sickened 41 people across 10 states, four of which required… Read More »