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How the National Blood Shortage Will Affect Nearly Everyone: What You Can Do
Healthline (1-13-2022)
In a joint statement this week with America’s Blood Centers and the Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies, the organization said, “If the nation’s blood supply doesn’t stabilize soon, lifesaving blood may not be available for some patients when it is needed.” In the past few weeks, the Red Cross, which supplies approximately 40 percent of the nation’s blood, has had to limit blood distributions to hospitals.
Do the Omicron Numbers Mean What We Think They Mean?
The New Yorker (1-16-2022)
A coronavirus infection isn’t what it once was. Studies suggest that, compared with Delta, Omicron is a third to half as likely to send someone to the hospital; by some estimates, the chance that an older, vaccinated person will die of covid is now lower than the risk posed by the seasonal flu. And yet the variant is exacting a punishing toll—medical, social, economic.
ACS Introduces New Funding Opportunity for Surgeon Scientists
The American College of Surgeons (ACS) announces the National Surgeon Scientist Program (NSSP), which provides competitive funding opportunities for faculty members within their first 1‐5 years of appointment.
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