With the Omicron BA.5 subvariant currently the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States, vaccine experts have decided to add some component of the rapidly mutating virus to a new bivalent booster that will be rolled out this fall.
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology has been calling for infection preventionists in long-term care for years, but it took a pandemic and a catastrophic death toll among frail residents to finally spur substantive action from the government.
With public health officials recently recommending vaccinating children as young as 6 months of age for COVID-19, a clinician voiced a passionate plea to immunize this vulnerable population to prevent severe outcomes and death.
While eclipsed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the multidrug-resistant fungus Candida auris continues to emerge in the healthcare settings and step-down facilities that can serve as reservoirs.
Improperly reprocessed medical instruments are associated with an increased risk of surgical site infection. A good understanding of your facility's sterile processing department can help ensure all areas touched by instrument reprocessing are working well together.
Public health officials are shipping monkeypox vaccines to states with ongoing transmission and to protect high-risk populations, such as men who have sex with men and those with human immunodeficiency virus.
