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The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Dear John,

One year later, we are revisiting Health Affairs'  first COVID-19
vaccines and therapeutics article cluster.

COVID-19 Vaccines & Treatments

In November 2020,

**Health Affairs**published a cluster of articles about early COVID-19
vaccine and treatment efforts. These papers-one coauthored by Rochelle
Walensky, now the director of the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention-went on to be cited by hundreds of researchers and news
outlets. Today, we revisit this foundational research.

In "Clinical Outcomes Of A COVID-19 Vaccine: Implementation Over
Efficacy
,"
A. David Paltiel and coauthors examined how different definitions and
thresholds of vaccine efficacy, coupled with different levels of
implementation effectiveness and background epidemic severity, translate
into outcomes including cumulative infections, hospitalizations, and
deaths.  

"An Overview Of Vaccine Development, Approval, And Regulation, With
Implications For COVID-19
,"
by Aaron Kesselheim and coauthors, reviewed the standard Food and Drug
Administration approach to vaccine evaluation, which underpinned its
approach to assessment of COVID-19 vaccines.

In "Ensuring Equitable Access To COVID-19 Vaccines In The US: Current
System Challenges And Opportunities
,"
Angela Shen and coauthors made five recommendations to ensure that
policies and practices at the federal, state, local, and tribal levels
support equity, transparency, accountability, availability, and access
to COVID-19 vaccines. Shen discussed this research on A Health Podyssey
.  

For Health Affairs' most recent pandemic-related content, visit our
COVID-19 Resource Center
.

Today on Health Affairs Blog, Lynn Blewett and Minnesota House Rep.
Jennifer Schultz explain Minnesota's approach to helping people who fall
into the "family glitch" gap

in Affordable Care Act coverage.

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Clinical Outcomes Of A COVID-19 Vaccine: Implementation Over Efficacy

A. David Paltiel et al.

An Overview Of Vaccine Development, Approval, And Regulation, With
Implications For COVID-19

Aaron S. Kesselheim et al.

Ensuring Equitable Access To COVID-19 Vaccines In The US: Current System
Challenges And Opportunities

Angela K. Shen et al.

Podcast: Ensuring Equitable Access To A COVID-19 Vaccine Once It's Here

Alan Weil and Angela K. Shen

Minnesota's Targeted Fix To The Family Glitch Should Be An Example

Lynn Blewett and Jennifer Schultz

 

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The centerpiece of the December

**Health Affairs** Journal Club meeting is "Despite National Declines In
Kidney Failure Incidence, Disparities Widened Between Low- And
High-Poverty Counties." In the paper, which will appear in the December
2021 issue of the journal, Kevin Nguyen and coauthors examine trends in
the incidence of kidney failure by county-level poverty among US adults
between 2000 and 2017. While national estimates suggest that overall
rates are declining, the authors found marked disparity in incidence of
kidney failure between low- and high-poverty counties.

Health Affairs Senior Editor Jessica Bylander will host Nguyen, an
investigator in the Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice
at the Brown University School of Public Health, to talk in detail about
the research, methods, and conclusions of the paper, including changes
in policy and care delivery that will be required to close the gap for
low-income areas and communities.

Date:     Thursday, December 9, 2021
Time:     1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. (ET)
Place:    Online details will be shared with registrants 24 hours in
advance of the event.

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