Nurse Practitioners Mobilize to Increase Vaccinations Across Minority Communities and Combat Vaccine Hesitancy
Profession Deploys Innovative Strategies to Drive Vaccine Adherence and Challenge Misinformation
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AUSTIN, Texas, April 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The American Association of Nurse Practitioners
® (AANP), the largest association of nurse practitioners (NPs), and NPs across the nation are mobilizing to encourage COVID-19 vaccine participation, raise awareness around the importance of COVID-19 vaccine access, and combat COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in minority communities. During Minority Health Month, AANP is highlighting ongoing efforts to address health disparities in minority communities and the work of NPs to increase equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines. This includes door-to-door appointment scheduling in underserved communities and mobile vaccination clinics in urban and rural areas.
Teens Vaccine
BioNTech-Pfizer says that its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective in teenagers. Trials of children as young as 12 showed robust antibody responses. William Schaffner, Professor of Preventive Medicine at the Vanderbilt School of Medicine in Nashville, tells Brent Goff on The Day that fingers-crossed a vaccine for children will be available for the start of the next school year.
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Biden Aims to Build on Obamacare’s Cost-Cutting Measures
Certified nursing assistant Princess Makor serves lunch to Pauline Sorrow at a COVID-19 field hospital in Cranston, Rhode Island, last month while Sorrow’s husband, Peter, also sick with the virus, watches. Health care spending has slowed somewhat since the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, and President Joe Biden says his health plan will continue to decrease health expenditures.
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In the decade-plus since it became law, the Affordable Care Act has helped slow the explosive growth in health spending. But the United States still spends about twice as much per capita as other wealthy nations.
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