{"id":607292,"date":"2023-02-12T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/12\/everybody-is-a-little-bit-anxious-what-we-heard-this-week\/"},"modified":"2023-02-12T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T16:00:00","slug":"everybody-is-a-little-bit-anxious-what-we-heard-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/12\/everybody-is-a-little-bit-anxious-what-we-heard-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Everybody Is a Little Bit Anxious&#8217;: What We Heard This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<nav>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\" tabindex=\"15.1\" itemprop=\"articleSection\">Opinion<\/a><br \/>\n      <span>><\/span><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/what-we-heard\" tabindex=\"15.2\">What We Heard This Week<\/a><br \/>\n  <\/nav>\n<h2>\u2014 Quotable quotes heard by <em>MedPage Today<\/em>&#8216;s reporters<\/h2>\n<p>\n            by <span itemprop=\"author\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><br \/>\n            <span itemprop=\"name\">MedPage  Today Staff<\/span><br \/>\n         <\/span><br \/>\n            <span itemprop=\"contributing\"><\/span><br \/>\n                    <span itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"February 12, 2023\"><br \/>\n          February 12, 2023<br \/>\n        <\/span>\n          <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"js-main-content-region\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/articleBody\" itemid=\"#main-content-region\">\n<p>&#8220;Everybody is a little bit anxious, and they are watching this.&#8221;  &#8212;  William Schaffner, MD, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, on a study showing mammal-to-mammal transmission of highly pathogenic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/features\/103000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">avian influenza<\/a> on a mink farm in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know that alcohol-based hand sanitizer kills more bugs than hand-washing removes.&#8221;  &#8212;  Janet Glowicz, PhD, RN, of the CDC, commenting on the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/features\/103050\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">infection prevention guidelines<\/a> jointly released by several organizations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re part-and-parcel to being human.&#8221;  &#8212;  Jeremy Kahn, MD, of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, after finding that doctors aren&#8217;t immune to political biases when it comes to decisions about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/features\/103020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COVID treatment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Likely much of this protection came from workplace policies.&#8221;  &#8212;  Mathew Kiang, ScD, MPH, of Stanford University School of Medicine in California, on how physicians had substantially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/infectiousdisease\/covid19\/102971\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lower excess mortality<\/a> compared with the general population during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t have a magic wand that will fix the crisis of understaffing overnight.&#8221;  &#8212;  Nancy Hagans, RN, CCRN, president of the New York State Nurses Association, on the success of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/second-opinions\/102975\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent nurses&#8217; strike<\/a> in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People who see drug ads should question whether it is the best treatment for them.&#8221;  &#8212;  Michael DiStefano, PhD, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, on a study that reported more promotional spending on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/pharmacy\/pharmacy\/102990\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">direct-to-consumer advertising<\/a> for drugs with lower added clinical benefit ratings but higher total drug sales.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are many, many donors out there that are not being picked up by the system.&#8221;  &#8212;  Seth Karp, MD, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, on the wide variation in the performance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/transplantation\/transplantation\/103011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">organ procurement organizations<\/a>, especially at individual hospitals, hindering the organ supply.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The question is, if they did something to increase their availability of outpatient mental health [care], would you see ED visits drop?&#8221;  &#8212;  K. John McConnell, PhD, of Oregon Health &#038; Science University in Portland, on the substantial regional variation among Medicaid enrollees&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/publichealthpolicy\/medicaid\/103027\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">emergency department visits<\/a> for mental health conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the first time, a neuroprotection study for acute stroke patients showed positive results in the primary outcome, which was safety.&#8221;  &#8212;  Marc Rib\u00f3, MD, PhD, of Hospital Vall d&#8217;Hebron in Barcelona, on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/meetingcoverage\/isc\/103019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">novel anti-inflammatory aptamer<\/a> given shortly after ischemic stroke onset for mechanical thrombectomy patients.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/what-we-heard\/103057\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Gaylene Damron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion > What We Heard This Week \u2014 Quotable quotes heard by MedPage Today&#8216;s reporters by MedPage Today Staff February 12, 2023 &#8220;Everybody is a little bit anxious, and they are watching this.&#8221; &#8212; William Schaffner, MD, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, on a study showing mammal-to-mammal transmission of highly pathogenic avian influenza [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":607293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24044,534,1502],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-607292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-everybody","8":"category-financial","9":"category-little"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}