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With COVID spread, ‘racism — not race — is the risk factor’

A commentary last summer in the NEJM Catalyst │Innovations in Care Delivery by Thomas B. Sequist, professor of medicine and health care policy at Harvard Medical School, took a broader look at COVID rates in the Navajo Nation, which has high rates of poverty (43 percent) and a population of 180,000 people across New Mexico,… Read More: With COVID spread, ‘racism — not race — is the… »

Why blood-clotting case won’t stop Covid vaccine rollout

Australia’s chief medical officers and federal Health Minister Greg Hunt have said in the days following the incident that the vaccines were safe, but what does the incident mean for the country’s vaccine rollout going forward? What happened with the Australian case? The 44-year-old Victorian man at the centre of the case received the AstraZeneca… Read More: Why blood-clotting case won’t stop Covid vaccine rollout »

Long Covid: More than a million affected in February, survey suggests

Meanwhile, in the latest daily figures, the government said that a further 4,479 people had tested positive for coronavirus and another 51 people had died within 28 days of a positive test. Although that latter figure is slightly up on the previous day, it is lower than the 63 announced last Thursday. BBC News –… Read More: Long Covid: More than a million affected in February, survey… »