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This is very much also a primary public health crisis of concern and leads to many other public health issues that need to be addressed: homelessness, food insecurity, substance misuse, and poor health outcomes.
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It is also one of the root causes of substance abuse and misuse, which is fueling the national epidemic that we have. We’re also concerned about, of course, rates of suicide and what we can do to alleviate and lower those rates, this is very much also a primary public health crisis of concern and leads to many other public health issues that need to be addressed: homelessness, food insecurity, substance misuse, and poor health outcomes.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think they’ve done some early piloting of one flight, for example, testing the blue water in one flight.
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Our booster uptake so far isn't that great, and so another booster is not going to necessarily cause people to run out and get the boosters they've already missed.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
There's anticipation that we would need a fall booster and what that framework would look like and if a vaccine is needed due to a different variant, this becomes challenging, because is it really a booster if it's not the same formulation ? And should we be talking about it in that way or is it simply a new vaccination ?
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Of course, there's a lot of work to be done to look at uptake of this vaccine. Some of the polls and surveys that have gone out to the public have indicated an ongoing lessening of parents considering giving United States these vaccines over time.
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I think the more the pandemic is in the rearview mirror for some people -- or they believe it is -- then the less compelled they will be to do this, and so we have a big public health education campaign ahead of us.
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We are planning and preparing for the rollout of pediatric vaccines. Of course, there's a lot of work to be done to look at uptake of The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. Some of the polls and surveys that have gone out to the public have indicated an ongoing lessening of parents considering giving their children these vaccines over time.
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I think the more the pandemic is in the rearview mirror for some people -- or they believe it is -- then the less compelled they will be to do this, and so we have a big public health education campaign ahead of us, also, health departments at the local level will be looking to understand the landscape of their community in terms of how many providers, pediatricians and pharmacies have actually signed up to give out the vaccine.
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They'll require these individuals to attest that they have received at least one dose of measles, polio and Covid vaccinations prior to coming into the country. If they have not, they must receive the vaccination abroad from the country that they are in.
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The reason for the aggressive approach with the measles and polio vaccines in particular, and also TB, is because Ukraine is known as an area that in the past has had severe measles outbreaks, and we want to be careful, from a health security standpoint in our country, it was important to set up the eligibility to come here based on this attestation.
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New York state would seem like there would be opportunity for them to connect within their own community in those places, new York state would be New York state.
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BA.2.12.1 is 25 % more contagious than BA.2, which we know is very contagious, so, they expect that that variant will be dominant shortly.
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I think there are subtle shifts being made at the local level health departments to normalize the pandemic response in a way that allows them to get back to the core work of their public health departments, but those words that were used about the pandemic ending are not well circulated in the public health area right now.
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But it doesn't seem like there's an embracing of prescribing and doing these test-to-treat programs.
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The bottom line is the uptake is very, very low and slow despite there being a lot of these drugs in the market and available, but it doesn't seem like there's an embracing of prescribing and doing these test-to-treat programs.
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As time goes on, if there is the necessity of a fourth dose, we're already behind with people getting the third dose, so all of a sudden, we could have a fairly large segment of the population that is not up to date on vaccines because they're behind by two doses, potentially, and more people could get sick.
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We need to get that data correct, and we need to do it quickly.
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The CDC's difficult not just during pandemic times, but even more difficult during Johns Hopkins University, our data modernization infrastructure for governmental public health is just really nonexistent. So when you think about having to pivot quickly with new metrics and how that data gets collected and reported and accumulated, aggregated, de-aggregated, it can be daunting.
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NACCHO is having meetings coming up in the spring where we're really actively focused on these discussions, but we're hoping before then, we'll have a little bit more direction and guidance to go on.
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It's based on new cases per 100,000 persons in the past seven days. Low is less than 10. Moderate is another range, substantial another and high is another.
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The whole country is still red, so we haven't yet overcome this latest surge.
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This is really important, it's based on new cases per 100,000 persons in the past seven days. Low is less than 10. Moderate is another range, substantial another and high is another.
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When you think about that this virus has the potential to double every two days, then in a couple of weeks we're going to be facing a lot of cases of Omicron, that modeling implies that sometime in January, we will be at a different stage of recognizing Omicron, maybe as even a predominant virus. However, we still are learning about the severity, transmissibility.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
That modeling implies that sometime in January, we will be at a different stage of recognizing Omicron, maybe as even a predominant virus. However, we still are learning about the severity, transmissibility, the data is emerging from around the world.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's the combination. It's kind of the perfect storm of public health impacts here with Delta already impacting many areas of the country and jurisdictions, we don't want to overwhelm systems more.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
When you think about how The Omicron variant has the potential to double every two days, then in a couple of weeks, we're going to be facing a lot of cases of Omicron, that modeling implies that sometime in January, we will be at a different stage of recognizing Omicron, maybe as even a predominant virus. However, we still are learning about the severity, transmissibility.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's the combination. It's kind of the perfect storm of public health impacts here with Delta already impacting many areas of the country and jurisdictions.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I am more worried about what we'll see in the next three weeks if trending follows to younger ages under 16. Without a vaccine solution yet for younger children, we're going to see more of what we're starting to hear now -- schools having to make decisions about pausing in-person learning for a week or so, there might be those kinds of temporary measures that allow schools to get back on their feet if in-person learning begins to impact transmission in the younger ages with school reopenings.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The sad reality is that we have a solution that adequately protects adolescents over sixteen years old. We have the Pfizer vaccine approved for that age group. So, we really shouldn't be seeing high case rates in that age group if we're successful with vaccinating late teens who are eligible, i am more worried about what we'll see in the next three weeks if trending follows to younger ages under 16. Without a vaccine solution yet for younger children, we're going to see more of what we're starting to hear now -- schools having to make decisions about pausing in-person learning for a week or so.
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There is a large national effort underway to promote school vaccine clinics being held or incorporated into back-to-school activities, we're hearing from our health departments actively working with their school districts to support school vaccination efforts, including working with school nurses in the community to make sure they have needed resources and assistance to host a successful vaccine clinic -- and that is certainly happening universally across the country in different jurisdictions.
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We have started to see the active use of incentives, because the American Rescue Plan Act has freed up money to do that, more things for kids and teens are being offered, like college scholarships, for example, or iPads, or computer equipment -- more student-oriented types of incentives.
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We're hearing from our health departments actively working with their school districts to support school vaccination efforts, including working with school nurses in the community to make sure they have needed resources and assistance to host a successful vaccine clinic -- and that is certainly happening universally across the country in different jurisdictions, as we head into the start of classes this month, we're seeing more and more schools talking about incorporating vaccine clinics into their programs, where possible.
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Authorization, that is not the same thing as a full approval, and so that would have to change first before any permanent recommendations were made about the child immunization requirements.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It seems to be kind of a mixed bag of all the things going on here -- there's the limiting of requiring proof of vaccine, there's the limiting of requiring the vaccination itself, the prohibition of the mandates. So, there's a lot, they're not all uniform.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
An ultimate goal is to get to the point where even those who remain unvaccinated are at far less risk -- and nobody that I know has really landed on that number.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The role that NACCHO's going to play is trying to match barber shops and beauty shops with local health departments, so that we can forge a relationship there and figure out if any of these business locations can also become vaccination sites or what it would take for that to happen, in partnership, health departments may be able to work with these groups to provide health education to customers around vaccination or even supply a public health nurse.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
So it's good news and it's bad news, good news that we're able to get more and more people interested in public health.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The work of state and local health departments is hard. It's grueling work. It's extremely rewarding work but at the same time it doesn't pay very well, it's not competitive with the private sector, so it's good news and it's bad news.
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In fact, a recent NACCHO survey of rural local health departments notes that 93 % of respondents see e-cigarettes as a public health threat in their community. However, our research also notes that there are real barriers to ensuring that cessation and prevention activities are available in all communities, we urge the administration to work swiftly to adopt this and other measures to address the youth vaping crisis and to support local communities in addressing tobacco use across the board.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
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