Immunization - Adult Immunization Features

• When Did Threatening Public Health Officials Become Acceptable?   A loss of trust in science; a partisan divide -- whatever the reason, many Americans think it's OK to attack public health leaders.
  Medscape, August 01, 2022
• Will the US Overcome Its COVID Complacency as the Threat Returns? One million Americans have died from COVID. A new variant is doubling case rates in some states, and more than 300 people are dying a day. But our nation's pandemic response has become mild-mannered.
  Kaiser Health News, June 15, 2022
• Managing Difficult Patient Expectations in the Era of COVID How can someone be "a good nurse" or "a good clinician" when patient expectations are difficult or unreasonable?
  Medscape Blogs, June 09, 2022
• H5N1 Avian Influenza: Q&A With the CDC's Tim Uyeki, MD Dr Tim Uyeki, Chief Medical Officer of the Influenza Division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, answers questions about H5N1 avian influenza, commonly called "bird flu."
  CDC Expert Commentary, June 08, 2022
• Update on Rabies, TBE, and Cholera Vaccines Before Travel Healthcare providers should be aware of important updates to vaccine recommendations that could affect patients preparing to travel internationally this summer.
  CDC Expert Commentary, May 27, 2022
• 'Bright Lights': Why This Physician Still Loves Family Medicine "Seeing opportunities to practice preventative medicine in family medicine made me realize the specialty was the perfect fit for me."
  Medscape Family Medicine, May 24, 2022
• Our Biggest Mistakes During the COVID-19 Pandemic   Bioethicist Art Caplan shares his list of mistakes made and lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, May 04, 2022
• You vs Us: Whom Did COVID Vaccines Protect?   Throwing a spanner into the hopes for high levels of population immunity.
  Medscape, May 04, 2022
• Eric Topol: 'I Still Have My Guard Up'   Why we should be shifting into high gear on treatments for long COVID and a pan-beta-coronavirus vaccine.
  Medscape, April 08, 2022
• Why Test to Treat is Imperative Now   Epidemiologist-engineer Michael Mina thinks diagnostics belong in the hands of the people.
  Medscape, March 09, 2022
• Some Physicians Still Lack Access to COVID-19 Vaccines As a primary care physician on the front lines seeing COVID patients, I have had to deal with not only the disease but the politics around it.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, March 02, 2022
• 'Historic Botched Job': CDC's, Others' Failed COVID Communication   Randy Olson on what science can learn from Hollywood about communicating with the masses.
  Medscape, February 25, 2022
• Exploring the Relationship of COVID-19 Vaccines and Fertility Information circulating on social networks posits that the coronavirus vaccine may influence infertility in men, which, according to physicians, is not grounded in reality.
  Medscape Ob/Gyn, February 24, 2022
• Adult Vaccines 2022: Who Needs What, and When?   Dr Sandra Fryhofer hits the highlights of the 2022 adult immunization schedule, just released by ACIP.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, February 17, 2022
• COVID Vaccines for the Under 5's: The 'Finish Line' We Need   ‘Your Local Epidemiologist’ Katelyn Jetelina translates the COVID science for millions.
  Medscape, February 17, 2022
• Reid Blackwelder Is Still Hopeful About Primary Care Two family docs discuss the challenges facing primary care in a post-pandemic world.
  Georgetown University Family Medicine, February 04, 2022
• COVID Is a Disaster. It Could Have Been Worse.   F. Perry Wilson muses on how the COVID pandemic might have been even worse. What if kids had been more vulnerable than adults? What if the vaccines hadn't worked?
  Medscape, January 25, 2022
• Testing Could Help End the Pandemic, if Only We Had Tests Is the lack of readily available testing the biggest public health failure of the COVID era?
  Medscape Internal Medicine, January 11, 2022
• 10 Reasons Why a 'Small' Virus Could Cause Big Problems Psychiatrist Dara Abraham shares tips on how to talk to your patients about the Omicron variant.
  Medscape Psychiatry, January 06, 2022
• 2021 in Review   Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese reflect on 2021's extraordinary podcast guests, and how we excelled in science and healthcare but were tripped up by the vagaries of human behavior.
  Medscape, December 22, 2021