/ Colorado residents over the age of 18 will be automatically eligible for all five chances to win $1 million if they get their first dose by Friday.
You may be familiar with the TV show “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” Colorado has launched its own version, and all residents who are vaccinated against COVID-19 are eligible to win. The state
announced it will give away $1 million weekly between June 4 and July 7, using federal CARES Act money that would have gone to vaccine advertising. But how well vaccine incentives actually work remains a bit of an open question.
“Colorado, every vaccine works incredibly well,” Gov. Jared Polis said during the Tuesday press conference where he announced the sweepstakes. He pointed to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine’s
With Few New Clotting Cases, Johnson & Johnson Pause Could Be Lifted Soon
Top federal health officials said in interviews this week that the number of rare blood clotting disorders in recipients of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine has remained small.
Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, the C.D.C. director, with Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, left, and David Kessler this month on Capitol Hill. Dr. Walensky said in an interview on Wednesday that federal officials had found “needles in haystacks,” an indication of how thorough the government’s oversight was.Credit.Pool photo by Susan Walsh
April 22, 2021Updated 6:29 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON Federal health officials are leaning toward lifting their recommended pause on the use of Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine after finding only a limited number of additional cases of a rare blood clotting disorder among recipients.
Colorado health officials explore virus vaccine passports
April 5, 2021
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As of Monday, there is no statewide program for vaccine passports, the Denver Post reported.
“While we are exploring what’s working in other states, anything we do will be specific to Colorado and our needs,” a spokesperson for the state Department of Public Health and Environment said in an email. “A business could not access a customer’s protected health information, such as their COVID-19 immunization status, unless that person volunteered that information.”
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said last Friday that any potential vaccine passports would be primarily directed by private businesses.
Researchers to test a promising treatment for high-risk COVID-19 outpatients
The nation has been coping with the pandemic for more than a year, and in this time, researchers have learned a great deal about how to treat COVID-19. Yet they have also been faced with what they still must learn, including how to reach the individuals who have been most dramatically impacted by the disease and who could benefit the most from new treatments.
A new $8.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will fuel these efforts for the next two years. Adit Ginde, MD, MPH, professor of emergency medicine at CU School of Medicine and UCHealth emergency physician is leading a team of researchers from the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus to test the real-world effectiveness of a promising treatment for high-risk COVID-19 outpatients.
How COVID-19 Will Help Denver Doctors Revolutionize Health Care
The COVID-19 pandemic has spawned collaborations in the Denver medical community that could help usher in a new golden age of medicine. Spencer Campbell •
As the medical director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Denver Health, Dr. Ivor Douglas knows better than most how devastating a toll COVID-19 has taken. “We’ve lost 400,000 people, which is as many Americans as were lost in the Second World War,” he says. (The number topped 520,000 in early March.) “And we’ve done it in a year.”
At the same time, Douglas understands that the unwelcome arrival of the novel coronavirus presents an opportunity to advance health care at an unprecedented rate. “Absolutely it’s going to have long-term effects on human health and scientific discovery,” Douglas says. He believes such rapid progress will occur because, well, he’s seen it happen.