New JAMA Network Open study! TLDR: the mRNA vaccines were safe in older adults with frailty, but Moderna (vs Pfizer) showed slightly better protection against COVID-19 and some adverse events (eg pulmonary embolism). CC Brown University School of Public Health Health Services, Policy & Practice Department BrownGerontology jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

“Happy Friday, Twitter! My colleagues at BrownGerontology, CVS Health and Walgreens and I published a study that measured disparities in booster vaccine receipt among 11.3M Medicare beneficiaries. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Chiropractic care and PT is low for Medicare beneficiaries with chronic back pain and opioid use disorder finds a study led by Brown Epidemiology PhD student @FBhondoekhan; lower still for Black and Hispanic patients. JAMA Network Open Patience Moyo Dow HealthDay News consumer.healthday.com/physician-s-br…

New database of 38 million older US adults aims to answer longstanding questions about how COVID-19 vaccines perform in an older population. Read more about the COVid VAXines Effects on the Aged (COVVAXAGE) database here: ijpds.org/news/17-10-23-… #CovidVaccines #Aged #Covid19

There is a new The National Institute on Aging (NIA) data resource to conduct #rxepi and aging research – COVVAXAGE! The data source includes over 38M Medicare beneficiaries and their health services use over time (eg inpatient, outpatient, and medication claims). #epitwitter ijpds.org/article/view/2…

Study led by brilliant Dr. Dan Harris found that co-administration of covid + flu vaccines more than tripled between the 2021 and 2022 flu seasons - can you guess which groups were more or less likely to have these 2 vaccines administered at the same time? sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Brown University School of Public Health covered the article (see above link), which aligns with other great work happening at the School by folks like Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, Pandemic Center at Brown School of Public Health, Kaley Hayes, PharmD, PhD, Vince Mor, & Preeti Chachlani. Open access article is here: ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-…

Where you live had a lot to do with which COVID-19 vaccine you got. In over 14 million Medicare beneficiaries, we found really large rural-urban variation in who received Pfizer vs Moderna - out today in Health Affairs. Brown University School of Public Health BrownGerontology healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.13…

Work was funded by @IMPACTCollab1 and done in collaboration with CVS Health & Walgreens. Co-authored by Katherine Wen Kaley Hayes, PharmD, PhD Preeti Chachlani Vince Mor Rena Conti Andrew Zullo, PharmD

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