Hospital Infection Control & Prevention – August 1, 2021
August 1, 2021
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OSHA Emergency COVID-19 Reg May Drive More Vaccine Mandates
Federal occupational health officials are being blasted for an Emergency Temporary Standard requiring potentially labor-intensive changes to address a pandemic threat that is diminishing as vaccinations increase.
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Comments to OSHA on ETS: ‘Too Much, Too Late’
Some of the comments received by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration on its Emergency Temporary Standard on COVID-19 in healthcare show frustration and disappointment.
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Treatment, Research Centers Trying to Solve Long COVID-19
Lingering COVID-19 symptoms in many patients may be the last and most insidious wave of the pandemic, since people who have been infected experience a prolonged, sometimes changing array of ill effects. The concern is that a subset of these cases will develop a kind of chronic COVID-19 that becomes a lifelong condition.
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Major Medical Groups Call for OSHA to Delay COVID-19 Regulation
Many of the nation’s leading medical groups are calling for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to delay its Emergency Temporary Standard on COVID-19 by at least six months and to extend the comment period.
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Annual Costs of MDRO Infections: $5 Billion
With healthcare systems across the nation focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, other priorities have largely gone by the wayside, including the formidable and longstanding problem of multidrug-resistant organisms.
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ID Groups Call for Mandatory COVID Vaccination of Healthcare Workers
The nation’s leading infectious disease groups have issued a joint paper recommending COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment for healthcare workers, with limited exemptions.