Articles Tagged With: COVID-19
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Long-Term Care Workers Refusing COVID-19 Vaccines
In what would appear to go beyond vaccine hesitancy to outright refusal, 62.5% of staff at thousands of skilled nursing facilities have turned down COVID-19 vaccines. Along with other healthcare workers in hospitals and other settings, long-term care staff were considered a top vaccine priority because they care for frail residents, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
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A Third Arrow in the Quiver: FDA Grants Emergency Use of New Vaccine
The Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency use authorization for a third vaccine COVID-19 in the United States, approving Janssen Biotech’s vaccine for administration to those 18 years and older.
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The Long Tail of COVID-19
There now is an open question about whether some people — healthcare workers and the public alike — could experience recurrent COVID-19 symptoms for years. This is the nightmarish world of the so-called “long-haulers,” who have developed a seemingly chronic condition the Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention is calling “long COVID.”
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Staggering COVID-19 Mortality Rates During Pregnancy
Pregnant women, some of them healthcare workers, are dying at high rates after contracting COVID-19. The COVID-19 vaccine risk is unknown because pregnant women were not included in early clinical trials. However, the emerging data on the threat of COVID-19 infection during pregnancy is tilting the risk-benefit equation.
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No One Really Knows How Many HCWs Have Died of COVID-19
While healthcare workers literally bear witness to death, who tolls the bell for them? There is no official count for healthcare workers who have died of COVID-19. Ask how many of these heroes have put their lives on the line and lost them in the process, and one enters a maze of incomplete reports collected from limited jurisdictions, mixed with extrapolations and models confounded with variables.
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FDA, CDC Sign Off on Third COVID-19 Vaccine
Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine is the first single-shot solution to receive an agency emergency use authorization.
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Leaders Plot How They Will Leverage the Lessons of COVID-19
While healthcare leaders continue to battle a global pandemic, many also are plotting how they will use the lessons of this emergency to make their health systems better. Several shared their ideas during the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s annual forum.
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TJC: Support Healthcare Workers During COVID-19 Pandemic
The Joint Commission has issued the first in a series of special bulletins aimed at addressing concerns raised by healthcare workers as they respond to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic.
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EDs Administer Monoclonal Antibody Therapy to High-Risk COVID-19 Patients
Clinicians can use new monoclonal antibody therapies to treat high-risk patients presenting with mild to moderate COVID-19 symptoms. However, despite the promise to depress viral loads, logistical and other challenges continue to stand in the way of larger-scale use. Still, some EDs are trying the therapeutics, with promising results.
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Help Physicians, Nurses Overcome Fear of Seeking Assistance for Stress Relief
Stress has long been a serious problem for physicians and nurses, but the added burden of COVID-19 is bringing attention to a particular challenge: All too often, clinicians are reluctant to seek the support of their employee assistance programs and other mental health resources available to them. A primary reason they avoid seeking help is that they fear they will face negative repercussions at work, even losing their jobs, according to recent research.