COVID-19 Update: Stats, Vaccines & Health Policy
It's about the triple aim!
English - November 23, 2020 18:30 - 30 minutes - 26.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHealth & Fitness public health accountable care value based care aca health reform triple aim Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
On PopHealth Week we contiune to discuss topline COVID-19 pandemic news which unfortunately shows no sign of slowing. In fact positivity rates, hospital admissions, deaths are all accelerating, a growing pool of 'long haulers' report a range of long term health consequences as part of their recovery, while a vocial minority downplay or discount the threat to the public at large, ie, 'much to do about nothing'.
On today's edition of our COVID-19 update series we dive a little deeper into some of the headlines from the COVID-19 dashboard to the current state of vaccine development and comment on the likely agenda of the soon to be installed Biden/Harris administration.
So first up is the U.S. COVID-19 dashboard where we've passed the grim milestone of 10.5 mil cases with death counts just shy of 1/4 million 240,857.
Most troubling is positivity rates and hospital admissions are all trending up putting health systems are at increased risk in terms of both capacity (beds) & staffing.
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