Addressing Post-COVID Challenges: The Urgent Need for Enhanced Hospital Reporting Metrics Kevin Kavanagh, MD;Yaneer Bar-Yam, PhD December 18th 2024 Article Explore why CMS must expand COVID-19, influenza, and RSV reporting to include hospital-onset infections, health care worker cases, and E...
Some 30% of healthcare personnel who worked at the thousands of hospitals in the United States were still not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of mid-September, according to a new survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The snapshot in time — January 20, 2021...
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25.5 Million Doses of COVID-19 Vaccines Distributed, Nearly 9 Million Administered: U.S. CDC More Reuters FILE PHOTO: A healthcare worker prepares a Pfizer coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination in Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 7, 2021. REUTERS...
The growing body of studies showing aerosol spread of COVID-19 during choir practice, on a bus, in a restaurant and at gyms have caught the eye of the public and led to widespread interest in better masks and ventilation.
Addressing Post-COVID Challenges: The Urgent Need for Enhanced Hospital Reporting Metrics Kevin Kavanagh, MD;Yaneer Bar-Yam, PhD December 18th 2024 Article Explore why CMS must expand COVID-19, influenza, and RSV reporting to include hospital-onset infections, health care worker cases, and...
“last resort and only in limited circumstances, such as when cessation of operation of a facility may cause serious harm or danger to public health or safety.” If a worker tests positive or begins displaying symptoms, the guidance dictates, as it did previously, that the...
A healthcare worker collects a sample at a United Memorial Medical Center COVID-19 testing site Thursday, July 16, 2020, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) A lot has changed in recent weeks regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.
care of a person with COVID-19,” the WHO guidelines read. And at first, the CDC agreed. After months of maintaining that healthy people didn’t need to wear masks in public to prevent the coronavirus, the country’s top public health officials reversed their position, recommending that ...
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