Online health care reviews turned negative following COVID pandemic Image: iStock/AndreyPopov Online health care reviews turned negative following COVID pandemic New research shows online reviews of health facilities took a negative turn after COVID and remain that way.
COVID-19 pandemic worsened patient safety measures Image: iStock/Sviatlana Lazarenka COVID-19 pandemic worsened patient safety measures A new study from Penn Nursing found that rates of falls, infections, and injuries increased significantly during the pandemic, and have not yet returned to pre-pandemic levels.
A link between nurse work environment quality and COVID-19 mortality disparities Image: iStock/Boyloso A link between nurse work environment quality and COVID-19 mortality disparities A new study from Penn’s School of Nursing links the quality of the nurse work environment and COVID-19 mortality rates among socially vulnerable Medicare patients.
More accept COVID-19 vaccine misinformation, and willingness to vaccinate has declined nocred More accept COVID-19 vaccine misinformation, and willingness to vaccinate has declined A health survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center finds a rise in the number of Americans believing COVID-19 vaccination misinformation, and a lower willingness to vaccinate.
This may be the most overlooked COVID symptom Penn In the News The New York Times This may be the most overlooked COVID symptom Ken Cadwell of the Perelman School of Medicine studies how COVID affects the gut and explains you will feel the illness in other parts of your body and not just your lungs. Avoidable deaths during COVID-19 associated with chronic hospital nurse understaffing Image: iStock/sudok1 Avoidable deaths during COVID-19 associated with chronic hospital nurse understaffing A new first-of-its-kind study from Penn Nursing shows that individuals with COVID-19 were more likely to die in hospitals that were chronically understaffed before the pandemic. Text reminders about COVID-19 boosters are as effective as free rides, new study finds (Image: dusanpetkovic) Text reminders about COVID-19 boosters are as effective as free rides, new study finds In a new megastudy, Katy Milkman of the Wharton School and collaborators at Penn’s Behavior Change for Good Initiative led research on reminders and free rides to and from pharmacies to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates. Knowledge a factor in closing Black-white COVID-19 vaccination gap Image: iStock/SeventyFour Knowledge a factor in closing Black-white COVID-19 vaccination gap New research from the Annenberg Public Policy Center shows that exposure to knowledge about vaccine safety and efficacy from trusted sources can matter. How unflagged, factual content drives vaccine hesitancy Image: iStock/zubada How unflagged, factual content drives vaccine hesitancy A new paper from computational social scientist Duncan Watts examines how factual, vaccine-skeptical content on Facebook has a greater overall effect than “fake news,” discouraging millions from the COVID-19 shot. Initial SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations prime immune cells to respond to subsequent variants Image: iStock/Thicha Satapitanon Initial SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations prime immune cells to respond to subsequent variants Immunological imprinting from the original ancestral SARS-CoV-2 strain has a significant impact on the antibody responses to the variants and boosters based on them.
Avoidable deaths during COVID-19 associated with chronic hospital nurse understaffing Image: iStock/sudok1 Avoidable deaths during COVID-19 associated with chronic hospital nurse understaffing A new first-of-its-kind study from Penn Nursing shows that individuals with COVID-19 were more likely to die in hospitals that were chronically understaffed before the pandemic.
Text reminders about COVID-19 boosters are as effective as free rides, new study finds (Image: dusanpetkovic) Text reminders about COVID-19 boosters are as effective as free rides, new study finds In a new megastudy, Katy Milkman of the Wharton School and collaborators at Penn’s Behavior Change for Good Initiative led research on reminders and free rides to and from pharmacies to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates.
Knowledge a factor in closing Black-white COVID-19 vaccination gap Image: iStock/SeventyFour Knowledge a factor in closing Black-white COVID-19 vaccination gap New research from the Annenberg Public Policy Center shows that exposure to knowledge about vaccine safety and efficacy from trusted sources can matter.
How unflagged, factual content drives vaccine hesitancy Image: iStock/zubada How unflagged, factual content drives vaccine hesitancy A new paper from computational social scientist Duncan Watts examines how factual, vaccine-skeptical content on Facebook has a greater overall effect than “fake news,” discouraging millions from the COVID-19 shot.
Initial SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations prime immune cells to respond to subsequent variants Image: iStock/Thicha Satapitanon Initial SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations prime immune cells to respond to subsequent variants Immunological imprinting from the original ancestral SARS-CoV-2 strain has a significant impact on the antibody responses to the variants and boosters based on them.