Articles Tagged With: COVID-19
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Healthcare Workers Await the First SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
With the first vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 on the horizon and targeted for healthcare workers, there are safety concerns and trust issues that threaten to undermine immunization. However, all new vaccines are followed closely for adverse effects, and the oversight of COVID-19 immunization will include multiple systems of passive and active surveillance.
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CDC Offers Healthcare Workers Online Infection Control Training
In an initiative that should complement the efforts of infection preventionists, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has launched on online interactive training network on infection control aimed at both frontline healthcare workers and other personnel.
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AMA Prepares for COVID-19 Vaccine with Coding Updates
Laying the administrative groundwork is an important part of ensuring success for administration of an eventual vaccine.
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Remdesivir Injection (Veklury)
Remdesivir’s benefit appears to be modest, but may be better for those receiving low-flow oxygen.
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Can Chopsticks Carry SARS-CoV-2?
This small study suggests salivary contamination of utensils with SARS-CoV-2 virus can occur. Sharing food and utensils, or using communal food bowls, probably is not a good idea if one is trying to avoid COVID-19.
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Perinatal Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of the OB/GYN
The obstetrical effect of COVID-19 has received attention worldwide. However, data examining the psychological effect on women in the perinatal period still are emerging. Although there is little doubt that COVID-19 has increased depression and anxiety in many demographic groups, a small amount of existing literature begins to give us some insight into the incidence, risk factors, and protective factors for mental illness in perinatal women during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Health System Sends Some COVID-19 Patients Home to Monitor Remotely
At the University of Miami (FL) Health System, certain COVID-19 patients who meet appropriate criteria can be discharged home with a device that facilitates remote monitoring by a care team operating out of the health system’s division of internal medicine.
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College Case Managers Help Students Cope During Pandemic
College case managers work to help students navigate crises, traumas, and other problems that can affect their educational lives. But some have found the COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis that affects more students for longer than any previous emergencies they have helped students manage.
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Is It Time for a Mask Mandate?
With COVID-19 surging nationally, there are increasing calls for a national mask mandate for the public. There appears to be sufficient evidence to support such a measure as we enter a winter of considerable discontent.
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Flu Deaths in Children, Vaccination Hesitancy
Although COVID-19 certainly has caused some infections and deaths in children, they generally have fared well against the virus compared to other age groups. Influenza, on the other hand, can cause severe disease in children.