Articles: pandemics.
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The lancet oncology · Jul 2022
Impact of health insurance type on access to vaccination and mortality due to COVID-19 on patients with cancer in Colombia: a cohort study.
In Colombia, all paid workers earning minimum wage or higher contribute part of their salary for access to the national health-care system through a type of insurance called contributive plan, which supports the remaining low-income population that is enrolled on the subsidised plan. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Colombia documented high mortality rate in patients with cancer, with higher mortality among low-income patients, according to data from our national registry of COVID-19 infection in patients with cancer. The aim of this research was to establish the differential access to COVID-19 vaccination depending on health insurance type, and its impact on mortality due to COVID-19 infection. ⋯ None.
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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic initiated the implementation of numerous disease mitigation strategies aimed to prevent transmission of the SARS-CoV-2. Given the similarity in mode of transmission, we posit that these strategies have also had a collateral benefit in minimizing the transmission of influenza during the 2020 to 2021 season in California. ⋯ Further study is recommended to determine which specific variables had greater impact on transmission of respiratory viruses, and therefore can be utilized to prevent future outbreaks of respiratory illness.