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FDA: "Increase inventory of available NIOSH-approved respirators, including N95s and other face-fitting respirators, elastomeric respirators, including new elastomeric respirators without an exhalation valve that can be used in the operating room, and powered air-purifying respirators (PAPRs)."

Six cases of rare but severe blood clots include one death and three other hospitalizations. Providers should be wary of administering standard therapy like heparin to symptomatic patients recently vaccinated with the Janssen vaccine.

These academic institutions collaborate with each other and the CDC to perform cutting-edge infection prevention research, so they may have better compliance with PPE and other measures than, for example, small community and rural hospitals.

“[We] may choose to verify the employer’s assertions regarding workplace conditions or possible existence of worker exposures to SARS-CoV-2 by interviewing employee(s) at the site.”

"They have the trauma that's been passed down over generations. And they have those experiences of discrimination and exclusion and harm from our institutions."

With more than 500,000 dead of COVID-19 in the United States, the pandemic has raised awareness of the bitter toll infectious diseases can take, and importantly, why investing in public health and infection prevention is critical to close the glaring gaps that have been exposed.

No one really knows how many healthcare workers have died of COVID-19

With the death rate almost 14 times higher, it's time to prioritize vaccination.

Emerging on three continents, the variants threaten to erode vaccine efficacy, undermine treatment, and increase both hospitalizations and deaths.

No increased virulence, vaccines should work.