Child abuse emergency department visits increased during pandemic lockdown

The rate of emergency department visits associated with child abuse or neglect at Kaiser Permanente Southern California hospitals doubled immediately after the March 2020 stay-at-home order. 

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  • Public policy can improve pandemic masking adherence

    A year-long study of mask adherence and social distancing among more than 100,000 people in 126 U.S. cities found people were 3 times more likely to wear masks correctly in places where a mask mandate was in place. 

  • COVID-19 boosters shown to be effective for adolescents

    Adolescents who received 3 doses of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID vaccine were better protected against infection with SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes COVID-19  — than adolescents who received only 2 doses. 

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Five questions...

for Dr. Jennifer Ku

An infectious disease epidemiologist, Jennifer Ku, PhD, MPH, is in the first year of her post-doctoral program at the Department of Research & Evaluation. Yet, she’s already led a study that was published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases that examined COVID-19 outcomes among people with Down syndrome.