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 ER...
Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape'sCoronavirus Resource Center. 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...
Still, easing COVID isolation guidance when the science around the virus' infectiousness hasn't changed could angervulnerable groups, CDC officials and experts told the Post. Loosening the guidelines "sweeps this serious illness under the rug," Dr. Lara Jirmanus, a clinical instructor at Harvard ...
CDC Loosens COVID-19 Guidance, Emphasizes Individual Responsibility by: Katharine C. Weber, Patricia Anderson Pryor, Jenifer M. Bologna of Jackson Lewis P.C. - E-Alert Saturday, August 13, 2022 Related Practices & Jurisdictions Coronavirus News Health Law Managed Care Labor Employment Administ...
HCW concerns over work-related COVID-19 exposure contributed to practice changes, many of which are unsupported by CDC guidance and resulted in healthcare delivery delays and alterations in clinical care. Pandemic planning and response must include the ability to rapidly develop evidence to guide ...
"If you have been in close contact (within 6 feet) of a person with COVID-19 infection for at least 15 minutes but do not have symptoms, you do not necessarily need a test," the new CDC guidance states. However, the CDC's advice for healthcare workers states they "may need to get...
"Meaningful consequences of the illnesses give us a better impact of COVID on people and the health care system," the source toldCNN. "This has been something folks have been engaged with and working on very hard -- I mean really hard -- over the past few weeks. It started before Omic...
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, a consortium of 15 doctors, nurses and other public health professionals petitioned the Centers for Disease Control to issue Guidance calling on: Americans to use nasal sprays to combat the COVID-19 pandemic; and doctors to use them in treating COVID-19 pa...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its guidance on COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, expanding the recommended time between the initial two vaccine doses to eight weeks for certain people. ...
She referred to current CDC guidance, which states that individuals can wait up to 6 weeks between doses of mRNA vaccine if there is a shortage of second doses. Mbaeyi also reviewed CDC's existing clinical considerations for COVID-19 vaccines,including contraindicationsopens in a new tab or...