- News- Vaccine holdouts embrace COVID antibody treatment, mystifying doctors- October 5, 2021- “I think it’s irrational, quite frankly, if you have to boil it down to one word.” 
- News- Post-op remote monitoring may help catch drug errors, ease pain- October 5, 2021- "Virtual care with RAM technologies that measured heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, oxygen saturation, and body weight allowed for a large absolute difference in identifying the drug errors." 
- News- Pfizer COVID vaccine antibodies may disappear in 7 months, study says- October 4, 2021- “Our study shows vaccination with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine induces high levels of neutralizing antibodies against the original vaccine strain, but these levels drop by nearly 10-fold by 7 months.” 
![1]() - News- Opioid prescribing mapped: Alabama highest, New York lowest- October 4, 2021- The Medicare Part D opioid prescribing rate dropped in all 50 states from 2014 to 2019, but disparities remain. 
- News- EU finds J&J COVID shot possibly linked to another rare clotting condition- October 4, 2021- EMA said the new, possibly life-threatening VTE condition to be included on the J&J product label was separate from TTS. 
- News- Antibody cocktail reduces chance of developing COVID- October 4, 2021- “This is the first long-acting combination of monoclonal antibodies that represents a potential new option to augment COVID-19 prevention.” 
- News- Merck to seek FDA OK for its COVID pill after trial stopped early- October 4, 2021- “The availability of a well-tolerated, effective oral antiviral will be particularly useful in supplementing vaccination as a means to reduce the proportion of patients needing hospital care.” 
![1]() - News- COVID vaccine controversies: How can hospitalists help?- October 1, 2021- Hospitalists need to pull whatever levers they can to help advance understanding of vaccines. 
- News- CVST after COVID-19 vaccine: New data confirm high mortality rate- September 30, 2021- “This is the biggest series, and as an international series, it gives a broader perspective from a larger range of countries.” 
- News- MDs doing wrong-site surgery: Why is it still happening?- September 30, 2021- “When they make a wrong-site error, usually the first thing they say is, ‘I never thought this would happen to me.’ ” 

