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Nursing Homes Fell Behind on Vaccinating Patients for Covid

KFF Health News

Children younger than that suffer the highest rates of hospitalization of any age group except people 75 or older. adults, age 70 and older. ” But there are ways to push back against bad information, and states show wide variation in the proportion of nursing home residents who got vaccinated last winter. where some 1.2

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Overadjustment – an important bias hiding in plain sight

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

To illustrate this, researchers highlighted the impact that overadjustment would have on their total effect of interest ( educational inequalities in health among people with chronic kidney disease ) by building various models with different levels of adjustment and explicitly comparing the results.