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Community Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Associated with a Local Bar Opening Event — Illinois, February 2021 CDC. Samira Sami.

Forty-six cases of COVID-19 were linked to an indoor bar
Source: cdc.gov

Preventing critical failure

Can routinely collected data be repurposed to predict avoidable patient harm? A quantitative descriptive study Objectives To determine whether sharing of routinely collected health service performance data could have predicted a critical safety failure at an Australian maternity service. Design Observational...
Source: bmj.com

Network theory links behavioral information flow with contained epidemic outbreaks: Over the last two decades, large-scale

Network theory links behavioral information flow with contained epidemic outbreaks: Over the last two decades, large-scale outbreaks of infectious diseases have resulted in high levels of morbidity, mortality, and overall economic burden for affected regions. As complex networks become increasingly popular...
Source: phys.org

Treatment for hypertension in adults aged 18 to 59 years | Cochrane "Antihypertensive drugs used to treat predominantly

Treatment for hypertension in adults aged 18 to 59 years | Cochrane "Antihypertensive drugs used to treat predominantly healthy adults aged 18 to 59 years with mild to moderate primary hypertension have a small absolute effect to reduce cardiovascular mortality and morbidity primarily due to reduction...
Source: cochrane.org