23 Nov 2021

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This week the FDA followed the guidance of the CDC to unanimously expand Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine boosters to everyone 18 and older. The guidance comes on the back of poor uptake of vaccines across the country that have failed to get our population past the line of herd immunity and a spike in cases that are being seen in Europe including Germany, The Netherlands, and Austria,...
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22 Nov 2021

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Very much enjoyed conducting a panel entitled AMCP Talks: Best Practices in Addressing Health Disparities as well as a COVID Roundtable at AMCP NEXUS 2021, you can watch a short video of the conference here: Hope to see you at the next one....
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15 Nov 2021

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This week Fred and Nick talk about travel and the updated travel guidelines for entering the United States. Now visitors are welcome into the United States for tourism, not just business or “essential” travel but they will need to show proof of vaccination and will also need to show a negative COVID-19 test taken within 3 days of the departure date. We discuss the options for testing ...
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08 Nov 2021

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    This week the big news is the approval by the CDC that follows last week's recommendation by the FDA to approve vaccines for children aged 5-11 years of age. The committee weighed up the risks and benefits of the vaccines and while there are still rare side effects, the one most worried about being myocarditis, found more often in younger males, the benefits outweighe...
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02 Nov 2021

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  Gregg Masters  This is the AMCP Podcast Series powered by PopHealth Week. Welcome everyone. I'm Gregg Masters Managing Director of Health Innovation Media the producer co-host of the show. Joining me in the virtual studio is my partner, colleague and co-host Fred Goldstein, president of Accountable Health LLC. On today's show, our guests are Patrick Gleason PharmD, Assistan...
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01 Nov 2021

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Fred Goldstein returns from his travels with his CO2 meter still in hand and apparently beeping at some surprising locations. We discuss what the readings mean, why they might be useful and what he learned from the data gathered on his trip that including flying, conference halls, and waiting areas We also review the latest guidance from the FDA that has approved the Pfizer vaccine fo...
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26 Oct 2021

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  Colin Hung  00:07 There are so many different types of patients you just mentioned one like what about the folks who are in wheelchairs? What about people who who have to take five buses to get to your office? What about the person who can and has ready access to cameras and stable internet? Like, there are so many different kinds of patients. So that's the other thing that ...
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25 Oct 2021

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  This week Fred Goldstein is off to a conference and traveling internationally so has been navigating the requirements for exit and entry into countries and even states. He is also adding to his travel bag a newly acquired CO2 sensor he plans to use at the conference to understand what it can tell him about air circulation, how easy is it to use, and what information does it pro...
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18 Oct 2021

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Intuitively getting vaccinated does not just protect you but protects those around you but proving this can be challenging with so many confounding factors. This week Fred Goldstein and I look at the concept of Herd Immunity and especially at the local level, and in the case of an elegant paper looking at data out of Sweden at the family unit level. The study benefits from the fact th...
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15 Oct 2021

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In March of this year, I participated in the AMCP Partnership Forum: Racial health disparities—a closer look at benefit design. Focusing on "...potential sources of racial health disparities and inequities in benefit design because these are primary drivers of medication use", this 2-day event included over 40 leaders from across the healthcare spectrum and was a profoundly interesting a...
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