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.NURSING FLASH
.ARTICLES, ADVICE & ADVOCACY
State Public Health and Technology Leaders Announce 2 Pilot Projects Using Google and Apple Exposure Notification Technology
CDPH
The Governor recently held his daily press conference ahead of the Legislature’s swearing-in ceremony and among other updates, announced the development and roll-out of a new app, California Notify created jointly by Google and Apple. The app will be available for download, with hopes that the new technology can be used to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and notify those who may have been exposed. The Governor reiterated multiple times that individual’s data would be 100% secure and private and that the app is an opt in rather than opt out.
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WHO Against Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccines
CNA
The World Health Organization said recently that persuading people on the merits of a COVID-19 vaccine would be far more effective than trying to make the jabs mandatory. The WHO said it would be down to individual countries as to how they want to conduct their vaccination campaigns against the coronavirus pandemic. But the UN health agency insisted making it mandatory to get immunized against the disease would be the wrong road to take, adding there were examples in the past of mandating vaccines use only to see it backfire with greater opposition to them.
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COVID Passes Heart Disease as Top U.S. Killer
Medscape
COVID-19 passed heart disease as the leading cause of death recently, according to the latest report from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. More than 11,800 COVID-19 deaths were reported, passing heart disease at 10,700 deaths, lung and tracheal cancer at nearly 4,000 deaths, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at more than 3,700 deaths, and stroke at more than 3,600 deaths. The daily death rate is greater than four per million in 34 states, according to the report.
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Starbucks Is Giving Free Coffee to Healthcare Workers This Month
CNN
Starbucks will be giving away free cups of coffee to healthcare workers and first responders who have been working during the COVID-19 pandemic. Until the end of December, a customer "who identifies as a front-line responder to the COVID-19 outbreak" can walk into any Starbucks in the U.S. and receive a free tall brewed coffee, hot or iced. The giveaway also extends to other hospital staff, like janitors and security, mental health workers and active-duty military.
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.NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY
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What's your work worth? Nurse salary data released
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Here’s some good news about this demanding profession: nurse salaries in 2020 are up in two of six regions of the country compared to 2018, and salaries stayed the same or decreased in the four others, according to a recent Salary Research Report issued by Nurse.com.
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New AI tool may help patients and nurses get extra rest at night
Verywell Health
A new AI tool may help doctors decide if their stable patients need to be woken up in the middle of the night for vital sign monitoring.
On average, doctors and nurses check a patient’s vital signs every four hours throughout the day and night.
Implementing ways to limit the number of times a patient’s vital signs get checked overnight may also help nurses to better manage their time.
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MULTIBRIEFS EXCLUSIVE
Where inequality goes, so goes health
By Keith Carlson
 A robust body of literature supports the thesis that inequality and health are inextricably entwined. The fight against deepening inequality in the United States and around the world is one which simply cannot be ignored in the 21st century. It is, in fact, our moral and ethical duty to address these issues and steel ourselves to resolve them, especially in this time of a historic and deadly pandemic.
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Anatomy of a vaccine: What it takes to create a safe, effective COVID shot
University of California Los Angeles via Medical Xpress
Shawn stepped into the UCLA Vine Street Clinic in Hollywood with confidence. He offered up his arm. The UCLA doctor injected him. It took seconds; there was barely a sting.
Twenty-four hours after the first of two shots, given 28 days apart, he suffered the headaches and fatigue associated with a milder case of COVID-19. But Shawn remained calm, resolved to honor the memory of his mother, a nurse who had died in May 2020 from an unrelated cause. Shawn is one of many volunteers who have stepped up to participate in medical trials at UCLA, which is part of a global network that's determined to help find a vaccine against the novel coronavirus. Doctors and scientists are taking an array of different approaches, knowing that public confidence in vaccines hangs in the balance.
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New COVID surveillance predicts direction, speed and acceleration of virus
Northwestern University via Medical Xpress
A new COVID-19 global surveillance system has been developed which can dynamically track not just where the virus is now, but where it is going, how fast it will arrive and whether that speed is accelerating.
The new surveillance system, the first to dynamically track the virus, was rolled out in 195 countries recently. It also will dynamically track the virus in individual U.S. states and metropolitan areas and in Canadian provinces.
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Teens and young adults quitting e-cigarettes during pandemic
Healio
Results from a national, cross-sectional survey showed a decrease in e-cigarette use among teens and young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. “One of the key reasons why adolescents and young adults quit or cut back on e-cigarette use is that they were worried about lung health, suggesting that discussing and educating about lung health can be a way to reduce [and/or] prevent use,” Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, PhD, professor of pediatrics at Stanford University, said.
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MULTIBRIEFS EXCLUSIVE
Study: Vitamin D low in 80% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients
By Amanda Ghosh
 The body of research examining the relationship between vitamin D and COVID-19 is growing. Now, a study published recently confirms a correlation between low vitamin D levels and SARS-CoV-2 infection, and health professionals are theorizing whether vitamin D supplementation could increase the effectiveness of a COVID-19 vaccine. "Vitamin D Status in Hospitalized Patients with SARS-CoV-2 Infection" appeared in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, confirming a relationship between low vitamin D and hospitalization due to COVID-19.
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HHS, Surgeon General urge action on maternal health
Medscape
The U.S. surgeon general and Department of Health and Human Services are calling on healthcare professionals, hospitals, employers, insurers, women, and the nation to work together to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality — and the disparities that make the risks higher for women of color.
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Better diabetes treatment: New insulin molecule can self-regulate blood sugar
University of Copenhagen via EurekAlert!
Everyday life for the more than 46 million people around the world who suffer from type 1 diabetes could soon become much easier and safer.
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and biotech firm Gubra have developed a new insulin molecule that, in the future, will ensure that diabetics receive just the right amount of insulin.
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