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TUESDAY, Sept. 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Eight in 10 older Americans think health care workers should be vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a new poll.Among 50- to 80-year-olds, 61% of respondents said the vaccine should be required for all health care workers. Another 19% said vaccination should probably be required. The remaining 20% oppose mandatory vaccination, the findings showed.The results are from a nationwide poll taken in August prior to a federal push to require vaccinations for nearly all health care workers whose employers accept Medicare and Medicaid — an estimated 17 million people."As our country tries to get the coronavirus under control, it's important that health care employers and health providers hear the voices of those who are most likely to turn to...

TUESDAY, Sept. 14, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- It is estimated that thousands of air travelers around the world have a cardiac arrest each year, with nearly a quarter of those occurring on a plane, according to new research that points to the success of CPR and AEDs in keeping survival rates higher than the national average.The new study, published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association, comes at the end of a summer when travelers began returning en masse to airports and planes after pandemic lockdowns.Because cardiac arrests are relatively rare on commercial flights, few studies have looked at their frequency, the use of lifesaving interventions, and the outcomes. Researchers for the new study set out to gauge the impact of a 2004 Federal Aviation...

TUESDAY, Sept. 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) – New data out of Israel, to be published this week, could bolster the notion that a third booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccine significantly lowers a recipient's odds for severe illness.The data is scheduled to be published in the peer-reviewed New England Journal of Medicine, ahead of this week's U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel meeting on booster shots, CNN reported. Although the journal does not comment on prospective publications, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Eric Rubin said the journal moves quickly to review data that can impact public health. The FDA also does its own internal review of data, he said."If we are able to inform a public discussion, then we will work rapidly to do that," Rubin told CNN.Preliminary data from the...

TUESDAY, Sept. 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- While in the United States preteens and teens aged 12 to 15 have been eligible for COVID-19 vaccines since the spring, the vaccines are only now becoming available for that age group in the United Kingdom. According to the Associated Press, on Monday Britain gave its approval for use of the vaccines in children 12 and older as part of a "tool kit" to avoid lockdowns this fall and winter. Prime Minister Boris Johnson was expected to announce the plan on Tuesday at a news conference.The chief medical officers of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland recommended on Monday that children aged 12 to 15 get a single dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Vaccinations in this age group should commence next week, according to vaccines...