Community workers checks information of residents at a residential compound in Haidian District of Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 16, 2022. Beijing reported one new locally-transmitted COVID-19 case Saturday, local health authority said. The community where the comfirmed case lives is under close...
A medical worker takes a swab sample from a little girl at a COVID-19 testing site Anyang City of central China's Henan Province, Jan. 11, 2022. Anyang City on Thursday reported 58 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, taking the city's total infections to 198. Numerous frontline wor...
Now a common sight in Spain, hospital staff have been protesting the lack of basic equipment and facilities they need to help fight COVID-19. The latest demonstration took place at the Infanta Sofia hospital in Madrid. The demo only lasted ten minutes as the staff needed to ...
COVID-19, also known as, Coronavirus is a new respiratory disease. It’s a novel pandemic that is infecting people worldwide. Since there is no vaccine for this virus so far, there is possibly no escape from it unless you take precautions such as stay at home and not interact with peop...
Background: Healthcare workers are a high-risk group for COVID-19 and protecting them is crucial for healthcare delivery. Limited studies have explored compliance with infection prevention and control (IPC) practices among Somali healthcare workers. This study aimed to determine compliance with IPC...
Am I Eligible for Workers’ Comp If I Get Injured Working From Home? As more and more people work remotely, the question has come up about what they could do or what their rights are if they are injured while working from home during COVID-19. For example, if an employee sets up a...
The work of Sterling et al8serves as an important call to action. With continued increases in COVID-19 transmission rates and a vaccine still months to years away, it is time to address the needs of a population for whom it is not possible to practice physical distancing at work. The dem...
Do I have to have to file a workers’ compensation claim every time one of my employees tests positive for COVID-19? No. The new law in California that went into effect on September 19, 2020, requires an employer to report a positive COVID-19 test to their workers’ com...
DENVER (AP) — A union representing workers at a Colorado meatpacking plant where six workers died of COVID-19 and hundreds more were infected staged a protest Wednesday, claiming that federal officials should have fined the company more for its alleged failure to provide safe working conditions....
Many factors are contributing to the psychological distress of nurses, physicians, respiratory therapists, aides, and other health care workers providing direct frontline care to patients with COVID-19, such as the following: Emotional strain and physical exhaustion when caring for growing numbers of ...