Articles Tagged With: COVID-19
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Current Healthcare Workers Might Face Another Pandemic
As evidence mounts indicating that climate change is driving emerging infections, healthcare workers may face another pandemic in their lifetime — possibly in their current careers.
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COVID-19 Vaccine, 2023-2024 Formula (Comirnaty, Spikevax)
The newest vaccines target XBB.1.5, which is no longer the dominant circulating variant, but they offer protection against XBB.1.16 and more distant variants (e.g., EG.5.1, FL.1.1.1, and BA.2.86).
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Pandemic-Era Care Transitions Led to ED Overcrowding
Researchers found that adult patients who visited EDs in a North Carolina health system between March 1, 2020, and March 1, 2022, faced significantly longer stays if they were transitioned from the ED directly to a skilled nursing facility (SNF) instead of transitioning to a hospital bed and then to a SNF.
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Misinformation: The Many-Headed Hydra
Social media platforms have become the Wild West of misinformation, and current indications suggest this is going to continue and possibly expand, said Donna Nucci, RN, MS, CIC, director of infection prevention, Yale New Haven Health.
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Comparing Sequelae After Hospitalization with COVID-19, Influenza, or Sepsis
The incidence of most selected new-onset medical conditions did not significantly differ among those who had been hospitalized with COVID-19, influenza, or sepsis.
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Misinformation from Physicians Hurt Pandemic Response
While studying high-use social media platforms, researchers found 52 American physicians from across a range of medical specialties were spreading misinformation about COVID-19 during the pandemic.
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Crisis Case Management Helps Prevent Teen Suicides
Rates of attempted and completed suicides have increased sharply in recent years, particularly among adolescents. A crisis care program at a children’s hospital provides case management help to teens and their families.
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Vaccine Mandates: Critical or Counterproductive?
Testifying before a recent congressional committee on vaccine mandates, John Lynch, MD, MPH, FIDSA, medical director of infection prevention and control at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, extolled the many benefits of COVID-19 immunization compared to the risks of morbidity, mortality, and the lingering chronic effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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COVID Forced a Unity of Purpose
Writing a “Science Speaks” blog on the website of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Erica Kaufman West, MD, went through highs and lows of the pandemic before ultimately returning to business as usual, rolling a rock senselessly up a hill like the Greek mythic figure Sisyphus.
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Uncommon Diagnoses that Cannot Be Missed: An Update
There are a variety of uncommon pediatric conditions that, if not detected, may result in devastating consequences. The authors review and update the current standard of care for a variety of conditions, including necrotizing fasciitis, DRESS syndrome, Kawasaki disease, MIS-C, Lemierre's, and RPA.