Context: The presence of new viral variants, in combination with the relaxation of social distancing and other preventative measures, has led to a spike in COVID-19 cases in the United States. The development of COVID-19 vaccinations may reduce the impact of these viral variants on case rates in the population. Objective: To determine the impact of COVID-19 vaccination rates on cases/100k population in each New York State (NYS) county.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo determine whether a deprescribing effort reduced several key classes of medications, and the overall number of medication classes per patient, among long-term residents of skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). Retrospective, longitudinal pre/post evaluation. Data from before and during the implementation of the deprescribing effort (2017 through 2019) were compared with data from the post-intervention year (2020).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 have been developed with unprecedented speed. The phased introduction of vaccines may be serving to offset the impact of new viral variants and policy relaxation. In order to assess the impact of vaccination, we examined a snapshot of vaccination rates across counties in a single state, at a single time point, comparing them with population-adjusted case counts.
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