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COVID-19: Vaccination Rates And Reopening Procedures
Two articles in the June issue of Health Affairs take a closer look at ongoing issues related to COVID-19.
In one article, Tiffany Fitzpatrick and coauthors examine school reopening procedures in Ontario, Canada, which entered a provincewide shutdown to mitigate COVID-19
transmission in December 2020.
After the shutdown a regionalized approach was taken to reopen schools throughout early 2021 without any other opening of the economy, offering a unique natural experiment to estimate the impact of school reopening on community transmission
Fitzpatrick and coauthors find very low rates of additional cases subsequent to gradual reopening. They conclude “that any increases in case growth after the reopening of schools may be manageable with appropriate mitigation policies.”
In another COVID-19 paper, Riley Shearer and coauthors describe trends in COVID-19 vaccination rates by racial and ethnic groups among people experiencing homelessness or incarceration in Minnesota.
The authors report that 64.0 percent of the general population in Minnesota and 70.9 percent of people recently incarcerated in prison had completed the COVID-19 vaccine series by the end of
2021.
These vaccination rates far exceeded the vaccination rate among people experiencing homelessness or jail incarceration.
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Today in Health Affairs
Forefront, Lilianna Suarez and Rushina Cholera discuss the remarkable innovation, financial commitment, and resiliencegovernment agencies and community-based organizations have shown in addressing rapidly worsening childhood food insecurity during the pandemic.
John Osborn and David Beier argue that exercising Bayh-Dole “march-in rights” primarily to reduce the price of expensive drugs that have been discovered or developed with federal funds ignores Bayh-Dole’s extraordinary impact on
innovation and the price reductions that occur with the introduction of generic drugs.
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