Physician’s Briefing Weekly Coronavirus Roundup
Biden Says He Will Release All Vaccine Doses After Taking Office
The potentially risky move is meant to boost a nationwide COVID-19 vaccination program that has gotten off to a slow start
Affordable Care Act Reduced Income Inequality in United States
Income inequality reduced within and across groups based on race/ethnicity, age, family educational attainment
Vaccine Rollout Slows as Many Health Care Workers Balk at Shots
In nursing homes and to some degree in hospitals, employees are refusing shots, expressing fears of side effects
Teen Vaping Doubles Risk for Subsequent Tobacco Use
Adolescent boys who use e-cigarettes twice as likely to initiate cigarettes, smokeless tobacco products
Pulse Oximeter Readings May Be Inaccurate in Black Patients
Blacks more likely than Whites to have oxygen saturation of less than 88 percent on arterial blood gas while 92 to 96 percent on pulse oximetry
Drug Makers Raise Prices on 500 Prescription Drugs
AbbVie, Bristol Myers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKline, and Pfizer among companies raising their prices by a median of 4.6 percent
~14.3 Percent of U.S. Population Infected With SARS-CoV-2 by Nov. 15
Estimated medians of 46,910,006 SARS-CoV-2 infections, 956,174 hospitalizations, 304,915 deaths reported by mid-November
Euglycemic DKA ID’d in T2DM Patients With COVID-19
Five cases of euDKA identified in patients with type 2 diabetes using SGLT2 inhibitors who developed SARS-CoV-2 infection
Mental Health Consequences of COVID-19 ID’d Across Populations
Health care workers have higher prevalence of insomnia; however, mental health problems seen across countries, gender
