Read on for highlights from Health Affairs this week.
What's New In Health Affairs
In new research published ahead of print this week, Sumedha Gupta and coauthors examined the association between US state-level vaccination rates and COVID-19 deaths during the first five months of vaccine availability.
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.
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
LIVE with Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator
Listen to Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interview Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, at a Health Affairs speaker event from August 12, 2021.
Inside The Historic Boost For SNAP Food Assistance
Health Affairs' Jessica Bylander and Leslie Erdelack discuss the latest on the average Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit, which is set to increase in October.
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