The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Dear John,
In an ahead-of-print article released today, Sumedha Gupta and coauthors highlight the relationship between vaccination rates during early immunization campaigns and COVID-19 deaths.
The authors estimate that by May 9, 2021, the US vaccination campaign was associated with a reduction of 139,393 COVID-19 deaths. They identify varying impacts by state: vaccinations led to an estimated 11.7 fewer COVID-19 deaths
per 10,000 adults in New York, but only 1.1 fewer deaths per 10,000 adults in Hawaii, which observed the smallest reduction in death toll.
“Our results suggest that further efforts to vaccinate populations globally and in a coordinated fashion will be critical to the COVID-19 endgame,” they conclude.
For more on the pandemic, find all of our COVID-19 content on our website.
Today on Health Affairs Blog, Liza Vertinsky argues that if we are serious about paving the way for breakthroughs in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, we need effective public-private partnerships. Nirosha Mahendraratnam Lederer and Stacie Dusetzina explain how the uncertainty surrounding the accelerated approval pathway could result in substantial spending on products that are ultimately proven
ineffective.
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Health Affairs' Health Equity Project Names Advisory Committee
Health Affairs is pleased to announce the launch of our Health Equity Advisory Committee.
The purpose of the committee is to guide the journal in developing and implementing strategies to advance equity within scholarly publishing of health services and health policy research.
The 2021–2023 Health Equity Advisory Committee
Donald Warne, University of
North Dakota
Spero M. Manson, Colorado School of Public Health
Camara Phyllis Jones, Morehouse School of
Medicine and University of California San Francisco
Jose F. Figueroa, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Aletha Maybank, American Medical Association
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia,Brandeis University
Paula Braveman, University of California San Francisco
Michelle Ko, University of California Davis
Ernest Moy, Veterans Health Administration
Darrell J. Gaskin,The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Health Affairs’ health equity project is supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Colorado Health Foundation.
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