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"A new study suggests that Black patients with acute COVID-19 infection are less likely to be diagnosed as having long COVID than White patients, despite no significant difference in long-COVID symptom burden between the two groups."
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/many-black-us-patients-long-covid-being-missed-analysis-reveals
Original research (no paywall): https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2025.00179
"The British Medical Association council deputy chair, Dr Emma Runswick, flagged the risks posed by AI accounts that 'peddle medical myths and promote so-called miracle cures.'
'Platforms like TikTok must do more to stop the rise of dangerous fake medical advice … otherwise, it is the public who could be paying the price with their health and perhaps even their lives,' she added."
#PublicHealth #AI #technology #SocialMedia #misinformation #disinformation
"The plaintiff in Weiss v. The Permanente Medical Group, Inc. is a Christian Jew. In her exemption request, she cited Bible passages as well as Jewish law which, she said, required her to keep her body and blood uncontaminated and prohibited needle wounds 'except for direct curative benefit.'"
#healthcare #covid #vaccines #immunizations #workers #labor #courts #USlaw
