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CDC reminds hospital and health system workers to protect themselves, patients during respiratory virus season

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reminding clinicians and other health care workers to take necessary steps to keep themselves and their patients safe during respiratory virus season.
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Getting Vaccinated to Help Protect Yourself, Your Family and Your Community

As we move into fall and winter, we know the viruses that cause respiratory disease will usually circulate more heavily in communities.
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Chair File: Protecting Each Other and Keeping Our Communities Healthy

The AHA has excellent resources to help hospital and health system teams encourage patients and people in their communities to get vaccinated against the flu, COVID-19 and RSV.
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Chair File: Encouraging Immunization to Keep Our Communities Healthy

Vaccines are powerful weapons against most diseases. Nearly a dozen serious diseases —including polio, smallpox and whooping cough — have been eradicated because of vaccines. That’s important to remember as we observe National Immunization Awareness Month in August.
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A Strategy to Tackle Public Health Misinformation

By understanding the attitudes and beliefs that drive patient behavior, health care providers and administrators can better design messaging that promotes positive health outcomes, including messages deployed during a public health emergency.
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Reflecting on the Resiliency of Hospitals and Communities During COVID-19

Remaining resilient as new variants of COVID-19 spread. Launching mobile health services to help ensure equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.
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Digging into the Reasons for Puerto Rico’s Successful COVID-19 Response

Exploring Puerto Rico's COVID-19 Response. Dive into the strategies and factors that contributed to Puerto Rico's successful handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, from high vaccination rates to a public health mindset.
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Perspective: Supporting Our Rural Hospitals and Communities

In Bellingham, Wash., the PeaceHealth clinic is using community health workers, or promotoras, to help educate farmworkers in rural communities about the importance of getting the COVID-19 vaccine. 
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Chair File: The Best Defense Against Flu and COVID-19

Autumn is here, and that means cooler weather and also the start of flu season.
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Chair File: Protecting Each Other by Getting Our Communities Vaccinated

As summer moves along, the U.S. is marking a pivotal point in the pandemic. A majority of Americans — nearly 55% — now have received one COVID-19 vaccine dose, and 48% are fully vaccinated.