Lots of talk about confusing CDC vaccine recs driving poor uptake the past few years. CDC's Melinda Wharton put the onus back on drug manufacturers - data gaps, high prices and poor cost-effectiveness ratios are driving these recs, she said.

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Alaskan adults who are not fully vaccinated & boosted against COVID-19 express ⬇️ trust in local health care providers & the greatest trust in community firefighters & EMTs, finds a new pre-print study by Drew Cameron (Yale School of Public Health Yale Health Policy & Management) & coauthors UAA ISER. (1/2)

Prof. Jason L. Schwartz recently took a moment to explain the new COVID isolation guidelines and why they were implemented ➡️ m.yale.edu/cgv8

A good vaccination trend here in Connecticut ctpost.com/news/education…

#Measles outbreaks are hard to control when there are unvaccinated kids around. Which is why public health folks who know measles are questioning the Florida surgeon general's decision to let unvaxed kids attend a school grappling with an outbreak. statnews.com/2024/02/22/flo…

In which I join the chorus of those baffled by the public health guidance coming out of Florida around vaccines and vaccine-preventable diseases.

More than half of U.S. newborns got RSV protection axios.com/2024/02/20/rsv…

Yup!

You'd think people who get #flu shots would be people who get #Covid shots, but there's a sizable difference between the uptake rates in the U.S. I asked Jason L. Schwartz, @profheidilarson & others what's going on. Tl;dr: Multiple factors at play. statnews.com/2024/01/22/flu…

Medicaid policy folks:

Our next Medicaid Insights Colloquium is set for December 13.

Very excited to welcome Chima Ndumele (Yale Health Policy & Management), moderated by Jamila Michener (@CornellBPP).

Register here:
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Join us at Yale Health Policy & Management! Abigail Friedman is hiring 2 postdocs to work on quasi-experimental analyses of tobacco and cannabis policies’ effects. Collaborations involve multidisciplinary teams across several institutions. Apply here: aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

What #vaccines are adults supposed to get & where can they get them so that their insurance or Medicare will pay? The world of adult #immunizations is labyrinthian; experts say the complexity likely discourages people from getting important shots. statnews.com/2023/10/25/adu…

A lovely profile of one of our treasured colleagues at Yale School of Public Health. Every word of it true and more! medicine.yale.edu/news-article/h…

What happened after California tightened its medical vaccine exemptions requirements? We answer this in our new JAMA study (authors 👇)

Context: In 2019, California Senate Bills 276 and 714 (collectively SB276) passed intensifying state oversight of medical exemptions1/x

New paper alert! Yes, those are #maps in JAMA Network! jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… Saad B. Omer Alison Buttenheim Jason L. Schwartz and Dan Salmon geography unc @uncpopcenter.bsky.social O'Donnell School of Public Health at UTSW

Your fall #COVID19 vaccine insurance coverage 'cheat sheet' from Cynthia Cox and me.
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My own prediction would be in this ballpark, probably a bit lower (65-70m). The big question (and worry) is what portion of that number will be from the groups at highest risk of severe COVID outcomes.

CDC's contracted prices negotiated for COVID vaccines for public programs (VFC, Bridge Access, etc.) are up. At first glance, looks to be the 20-30% 'discount' from private sector prices typical for other vaccines. cdc.gov/vaccines/progr…

A study by Yale School of Public Health & Yale SOM researchers published in JAMA Internal Medicine this week finds that Republican voters in two states had more excess deaths than Democratic voters after COVID vaccines became widely available.

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📺 New video now live 📺

Last month's webinar, Beyond COVID: The Broader Reach of Bioethics Research During the Pandemic, is now available to watch in full. Watch now for perspectives from Brendan Saloner, Jason L. Schwartz, and Seema Shah. youtu.be/0hpM7n0vTKI