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Bye, Bye, Yamagata! |
The last time anyone saw the influenza B/Yamagata family of viruses was in March 2020, when lockdowns virtually eliminated flu season later that year. But the extinct strain has remained in quadrivalent flu vaccines. That may now change. Despite again recommending that any quadrivalent vaccines contain an influenza B/Yamagata virus at their biannual meeting on flu
vaccine components, the WHO added that “every effort should be made to exclude this component as soon as possible.” STAT has more.
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A Nurse on the Spectrum |
She’s autistic, a nurse, and wants you to know she’s “fiercely empathetic” and just as capable as any other nurse you’ve had, even if it requires extra effort to overcome aspects of her disability to do her job. In a lovely essay at The Mighty, Jackie Blair shares her experience working in health care with an invisible disability. She’s certainly not the only nurse with autism, but research about autistic nurses is lacking.
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A Dream Destroyed |
When 31-year-old “Rachel” boarded a plane from the Philippines to Florida in August last year, she was excited to begin working at a state-of-the-art hospital with plentiful resources. But a year later, she’s “spinning through the cycle of anxiety, burnout, and guilt” so familiar to countless nurses—except she can’t quit. A disturbing but sadly unsurprising investigative feature at Quartz digs into hospitals’ worsening exploitation of foreign nurses to address the nurse shortage.
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TODAY'S TOP VITAL
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247 Million |
The number of global malaria cases every year, though a new malaria vaccine recommended by the World Health Organization will hopefully begin to put a dent in that number.
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