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Here’s another example that these disparities are real, and I think it helps inform people – physicians, health systems, providers of care – that the disparity is already there.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Obviously it’s concerning when you see such a large disparity, here’s another example that these disparities are real, and I think it helps inform people – physicians, health systems, providers of care – that the disparity is already there.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re still the only nation that does not have universal health care or access for all of our citizens.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The big takeaway for me is that Covid did not become the great equalizer [among nations]. It did not help our case at all, if anything, it exposed the existing holes in our health care system.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Injury prevention is a core part of every physician’s job, it’s clearly in our lane.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Physicians have a unique opportunity to engage their patients, the parents of kids or the parents themselves as individuals to make their homes safer, we already do this for toxins under our kitchen cabinets, razor blades and outlets in the wall.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re focusing on those three, but there are others out there – the common cold and others.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
People seem to have lost all civility, and then you couple that with having to stay home, and being stressed from that, losing your job, losing resources, fear for your health, more guns.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We're literally seeing it in front of our eyes -- at school board meetings and public events, people seem to have lost all civility, and then you couple that with having to stay home, and being stressed from that, losing your job, losing resources, fear for your health, more guns.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Presence of disease is an earlier indicator than the hospitalizations and can help us predict workforce needs, staffing needs for hospitals, if you know you've got a community that hasn't had a lot of infection and all of a sudden you're seeing it grow, then you can usually predict that two or three weeks from then, they're going to be seeing more cases in the hospital( and) tragically, death, too. However, with this new BA.2 Omicron variant we are seeing infections but not many severe hospitalizations.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
This is not CDC's responsibility. They will be part of the process, but this is much bigger than CDC because this pandemic has been much bigger than just one agency.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
What I would suggest what we do is, we look and we imagine some possible futures of where the disease might go, and then we plan the transition according to those various scenarios.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
While CDC can provide some leadership there -- they can provide the science, they can provide the evidence, and maybe they can do the modeling -- because that involves so much of a society that's got to come at a higher authority, maybe the Covid Task Force pulls that together and lays it out for the nation.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The point being is, you lay out those scenarios, and then as a nation, we decide how we're going to handle that, with a consensus around that with the governors, with the mayors, and everybody kind of agrees that's what we're going to do, and that's how we move forward.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We've just spent many years preparing and talking about a pandemic, and quite frankly, we were not prepared. We did not put the infrastructure in place that we actually needed to put in place. We de-invested in... our health and public health systems in ways that quite tragically resulted in two years of significant outbreak that did not have to be as bad as it was, the real issue here is that we're about to do the same mistake again. We're about to have the same things happen to us because we have not really invested in the mitigation and adaptation that is necessary to address climate change.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We're literally seeing it in front of our eyes -- at school board meetings and public events, people seem to have lost all civility, and then Georges Benjamin couple that with having to stay home, and being stressed from that, losing Georges Benjamin job, losing resources, fear for Georges Benjamin health, more guns.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Add to the fact that we have this new virus, and this new virus is going to do a couple of things. One, it's clearly much more infectious than the other viruses, and it's going to hit the ones who are most vulnerable.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
As this goes on, who gets exposed changes. Everybody else is vaccinated, they don't get infected, so now we're seeing, at least statistically, the people who are getting infected changing, add to the fact that we have this new virus, and this new virus is going to do a couple of things. One, it's clearly much more infectious than the other viruses, and it's going to hit the ones who are most vulnerable.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The simple answer is -- you have a virus that's highly infectious. It's going to spread to the people who are most vulnerable, and that's going to be the people who are least likely to be vaccinated, and it's still true that the younger people are still least likely to be vaccinated.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
People are getting really nervous about a situation that existed before we took the mask off the vaccinated, and I would like to see us focus on getting people vaccinated.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We're going to be judged whether or not we did it equitably at the end of the day, right now, I still think we're failing.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Georges Benjamin have to say,' I want to make sure everyone gets this,' we have to make sure we think about all the ways that people can give in( to getting vaccinated) and we have to make sure we have vaccine available for them when they call in.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
People will light candles and go to sleep, and they fall over, the cat comes in and kicks it over and starts a fire.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Make sure that your flue is properly opened and clean to make sure that smoke doesn't come back in the home but goes properly up the flue, when the fire is out, you should of course close the flue because it's like having an open window.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
You have to say,' I want to make sure everyone gets this,' we have to make sure we think about all the ways that people can give in( to getting vaccinated) and we have to make sure we have vaccine available for them when they call in.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
History has told us that these things go away. And you have to do something to make them go away, even in 1918, 1919, people got infected and tragically the world had to go through that. We achieved some kind of equilibrium, got to herd immunity and it ended.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
People need to express themselves however they feel most comfortable.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
What we do see is almost across the board some slight improvement in mortality.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
In particular, tobacco drives cardiovascular disease and cancer, and obesity is a driving factor as well, what we do see is almost across the board some slight improvement in mortality.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We know very clearly that things such as educational attainment, access and utilization of things like tobacco, physical inactivity, nutrition, the location of if they have access to things like grocery stores, all those things matter at the county level and at the local level.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We know that ZIP code matters, we know very clearly that things such as educational attainment, access and utilization of things like tobacco, physical inactivity, nutrition, the location of if they have access to things like grocery stores, all those things matter at the county level and at the local level.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The other thing we know is there is a correlation between health care costs and people's mental health.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Far too many people, even with health insurance, still are having trouble paying their bills because of the health care costs, the other thing we know is there is a correlation between health care costs and people's mental health.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We look at the whole range of maternal-child health care as a great barometer of access to care, because there has been an emphasis over many years of making sure that women and children -- even low-income women and children -- get access to health care.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
One of the more interesting statistics was the fact that cesarean sections were down.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
That was good, to see that percentage of women getting first trimester prenatal care is up, we look at the whole range of maternal-child health care as a great barometer of access to care, because there has been an emphasis over many years of making sure that women and children -- even low-income women and children -- get access to health care.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
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