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Research Helps Identify High-Risk Populations to aid Health Officials Combating the Pandemic

November 24, 2020 sarah Jonas COVID-19, Ethnicity, Gender, Mortality, Pandemic, risk

A team of UCLA Fielding School of Public Health researchers has developed a method to better guide public policy related to the control and prevention of COVID-19, based on identifying those most at risk in the pandemic

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Researchers discover men fighting both cancer and COVID-19 at higher risk than women

November 23, 2020 sarah Jonas Cancer, COVID-19, Gender, Mortality

Men with cancer and COVID-19 may be at significantly higher risk for severe symptoms and even death as compared to females fighting both, a University of Kansas Cancer Center research team has found.

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Mount Sinai Develops Machine Learning Models to Predict Critical Illness and Mortality in COVID-19 Patients

November 10, 2020 sarah Jonas Artifical Intelligence, covid, COVID-19, Critical Care, Electronic Health Records, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Internet, Machine Learning, Mortality, Mount Sinai Health System

Mount Sinai researchers have developed machine learning models that predict the likelihood of critical events and mortality in COVID-19 patients within clinically relevant time windows.

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Pandemic-related stress leads to less employee engagement

October 12, 2020 sarah Jonas COVID-19, employee engagement, Mortality, Pandemic, Stress

As COVID-19 cases surged this spring, the pandemic led some people more than others to ponder their own mortality. A new study in China and the United States suggests that these people were the ones who showed the highest levels of stress and the least engagement at work.

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Potent Drug Supply Drop, Not U.S. Domestic Drug Policies, Likely Behind 2018’s Overdose Death Downturn

September 16, 2020 sarah Jonas drug, Mortality, Overdose

The slight decline in drug overdose deaths in 2018 coincides with Chinese regulations on the powerful opioid carfentanil, rather than the result of domestic U.S. efforts to curb the opioid epidemic, a University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health analysis revealed today.

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Hazardous Air Pollutant Exposure Linked as Contributing Factor to COVID-19 Mortality in the United States

September 11, 2020 sarah Jonas Chromium, COVID-19, Health, Mortality, Pollution

A study by researchers at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) researchers and ProPublica, and published in Environmental Research Letters has found a link between chronic exposure to hazardous air pollutants (HAPS) and COVID-19 mortality rates.

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UCLA researchers investigate COVID-19-associated deaths in working-age Latinos

August 27, 2020 sarah Jonas COVID-19, Mortality, Pandemic

UCLA researchers investigate COVID-19-associated deaths in working-age Latinos. Professors David Hayes-Bautista and Paul Hsu, both with the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, have found that over the past three months, there was a nearly five-fold increase in death rates among working-age Latinos in California.

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Failure to ‘flatten the curve’ may kill more people than we thought

August 24, 2020 sarah Jonas COVID-19, ICU Care, Mortality, University of Washington

New research by the University of Minnesota and the University of Washington finds that every six additional ICU beds or seven additional non-ICU beds filled by COVID-19 patients leads to one additional COVID-19 death over the following week.

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NAU professors examine the role racial disparities play in mortality rates of rural, urban residents

August 11, 2020 sarah Jonas JAMA Network Open, Mortality, Mortality Rates, NAU, Northern Arizona University, Race, Racial Disparities, racial disparities in health care

In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers collected nationally representative data from 3,131 U.S. counties between 1968-2016, and looked at historical trends in death rates between older black and white adults living in different communities.

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Rutgers Expert Can Discuss Global Climate Change Mortality Study

August 3, 2020 sarah Jonas Adaptation, AIDS, Air Conditioning, Cancer, Carbon Dioxide, carbon dioxide emissions, Carbon Emissions, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Impact Lab, Death Rate, Dengue, Economics, Emissions, Environment, extreme heat, Health, Heart Disease, heat, high emissions scenario, HIV, Infectious Diseases, Malaria, Mortality, New Jersey, NJ, poor, Research, Rhodium Group, Rutgers, Rutgers Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Rutgers University, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Science, Tuberculosis, University of California, Berkeley, Yellow Fever

New Brunswick, N.J. (Aug. 3, 2020) – Rutgers University–New Brunswick Professor Robert E. Kopp is available to discuss a major

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UCLA research investigates COVID-19 Death Patterns in California

July 20, 2020 sarah Jonas COVID-19, Mortality, Pandemic, Race And Ethnicity

Researchers from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health found deaths related to COVID-19‒associated conditions do not occur randomly in the state’s population; they occur more in some racial/ethnic (R/E) populations than in others.

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Single-Dose Flu Drug Reduces Spread Within Households

July 13, 2020 sarah Jonas Aging, EPIDEMIOLOGY, flu, GERONTOLOGY, Influenza, Mortality, Pediatrics, University Of Virginia, University of Virginia School of Medicine, UVA, UVA School of Medicine, Vaccines

Only 1.9% of uninfected household contacts who took a single dose of baloxavir marboxil came down with the flu.

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