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The new guidelines have drawn criticism and many or most hospitals are sticking to state guidelines, which generally mandate masking. Megan Ranney, MD, MPH, of Brown University tweeted that CDC’s logic “escapes me,” as it pertains to society’s “most health-vulnerable” people in a setting with a higher-than-average risk of COVID positivity.

This case-control study carried out at six hospitals between Oct 2021 and July 2022 found that boosters yielded a 75% reduction in COVID hospitalization risk in the first 50 days post-booster, declining to 25% reduction in hospitalization risk at over 150 days. Other factors associated with an increased odds of hospitalization for COVID-19 included age of 70 years or older, male sex, cognitive disease, COPD, diabetes, immunodeficiency, obesity, rheumatologic disease, transplant, and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination.

Traveling abroad for medical care, or so-called “medical tourism,” has significantly decreased since the pandemic. However, as limitations on international travel loosen, medical tourism has been steadily recovering, reflecting pent-up demand from patients who had to put off procedures, dental surgery, or other care.

In 2018, this previously high revenue-generating surgeon had a series of patient injuries and deaths resulting from his surgeries. He was removed from the surgery schedule following a whistleblower lawsuit.

All vaccines are expected to be quadrivalent. Included in the update are expanded approval for Flucelvax Quadrivalent, administration adjustments for Afluria Quadrivalent, and higher dose vaccines for those 65 years old and older.

In a 2021 poll conducted by West Health and Gallup, 7% of American respondents said they had difficulty paying for at least one prescription drug in the previous three months. The same survey also found that 1 in 10 Americans had skipped medication doses in the previous year in order to save money. The well-known billionaire Mark Cuban is aiming to alter that with the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company, which will lower the cost and provide access to hundreds of prescriptions for people all around the nation. “Everyone should have safe, affordable medicines with transparent prices.” Mark Cuban