Writing in USA Today, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy explains how he released a recent advisory on health care worker burnout to "call our nation to attention and action to address this crisis."
States with low Covid-19 vaccination rates also saw low rates of flu vaccinations in 2021, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, suggesting that beliefs about Covid-19 vaccines affected how people felt about flu vaccines.
Although prior infection and vaccination offer similar levels of protection against the omicron subvariants BA.1 and BA.2, infectious disease experts say when it comes to newer omicron variants, such as BA.4 and BA.5, natural immunity is likely less protective against infection.
Radio Advisory's Rachel Woods sat down with Advisory Board's Daniel Kuzmanovich and Clare Wirth to talk about what it will take for the health care industry to move towards meaningful risk and the biggest concerns leaders said they have about risk at a recent Advisory Board event.
The Florida Department of Health last Wednesday said it hasn't pre-ordered Covid-19 vaccines for children under the age of 5 because the department doesn't recommend the shot for all children, making Florida the only state to do so, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Colorado, Florida, and Illinois.
