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We Should Double Down on Treatments for Those at High Risk Instead of Pushing Boosters and Tests for Everyone
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, experts who counted on prevention tactics such as shutdowns and vaccine mandates have been humbled by the blistering spread of the omicron variant. Even a group of health advisers to the Biden transition now concede that COVID-19 is here to stay.
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Healthcare Delivery in California: Where Do We Go From Here?
On February 3, join Dana Goldman and Mark Ghaly, Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, in a discussion around how California can deliver health care to everyone while combatting social health disparities that have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Policy Response on Health Care Utilization: Evidence From County-Level Medical Claims and Cellphone Data
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced federal, state, and local policymakers to respond by legislating, enacting, and enforcing social distancing policies.
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COVID-19 Testing in Schools: Perspectives of School Administrators, Teachers, Parents, and Students in Southern California
School-based COVID-19 testing is a potential strategy to facilitate the safe reopening of schools that have been closed due to the pandemic. This qualitative study assessed attitudes toward this strategy among four groups of stakeholders: school administrators, teachers, parents, and high school students.
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The Impact of the COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution on Mental Health Outcomes
USC researchers use We use data from U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey merged to state-level COVID-19 vaccination eligibility data to estimate the secondary benefits of COVID-19 vaccination on mental health outcomes
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Disparities In County COVID-19 Vaccination Rates Linked To Disadvantage And Hesitancy
Despite widespread access, there are still wide discrepancies in COVID-19 vaccine coverage in communities across the U.S. Researchers with the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics and Johns Hopkins University assessed the relationship between county COVID-19 vaccination rates and both social vulnerability and vaccine hesitancy.
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Hesitancy Plays Increasing Role in Vaccine Coverage Disparities Despite Wide Availability
Social vulnerability was also independently associated with widening disparities in county-level coverage, signaling the need for unique, targeted interventions.
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Financial Incentives and Other Nudges Do Not Increase COVID-19 Vaccinations among the Vaccine Hesitant
Can financial incentives, public health messages and other behavioral nudges –approaches deployed by state and local governments, employers, and health systems – increase SARS-CoV-2 vaccination rates among the vaccine hesitant in the US?
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Valuing COVID-19 Mortality and Morbidity Risk Reductions
This talk will explore methods and findings from a recent report authored by Lisa A. Robinson, Michael R. Eber, and James K. Hammitt for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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How COVID Can Help Us Refocus on the How and Why of Value Assessment
The limitations of conventional approaches to value assessment are particularly clear when reflecting on our experience with the COVID-19 pandemic.
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