Hospital Infection Control & Prevention
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OSHA, CMS Step Up Hospital Inspections
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued a National Emphasis Program to ensure that employees in high-hazard industries, such as healthcare, are protected from contracting SARS-CoV-2.
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Antibiotic-Resistant Bugs Do Not Sleep During the Pandemic
Outbreaks with antibiotic-resistant pathogens are occurring in hospital COVID-19 units, primarily caused by multidrug-resistant organisms that are hard to eradicate from the patient environment, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigator reports.
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Landmark California Law Requires Stocks of PPE
On April 1, 2021, a new California law went into effect that requires hospitals to maintain a supply of personal protective equipment sufficient for 90 days of patient care.
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Origin of SARS-CoV-2 Remains a Mystery, WHO Investigation Ruling Nothing Out
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic most likely arose from horseshoe bats in caves in South China, transferring into humans from an unknown intermediate animal source, according to a World Health Organization report that raised four distinct scenarios and rules out none of them.
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An Idea Whose Time Has Come: An Academic Path for Infection Preventionist Education
With shifting demographics and aging expertise, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology is creating infection preventionist curriculum for colleges and universities.
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Call for National Reporting System of Healthcare Worker Deaths
Compounding the tragic loss of so many healthcare workers during the pandemic, a new report concludes that, in the absence of a national reporting system, the true count of those who have died of COVID-19 is unknown.
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Strange Ebola Transmission Spurs Outbreak
An emerging Ebola outbreak in Guinea may have been sparked by a survivor of the historic West African outbreak of 2013-2016. That means the virus would have had to incubate in the index case, without replicating enough to cause acute disease, for at least five years.
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Misinformation Guide on COVID-19 Vaccines
Public health agencies and academic partners have created a vaccine misinformation field guide outlining how to respond to the misinformation and disinformation that are undermining uptake of the COVID-19 vaccines.
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The Struggle to Immunize Long-Term Care Staff
Almost two-thirds of healthcare workers in thousands of skilled nursing facilities have turned down COVID-19 vaccine, even though the mortality rates of long-term care residents are among the highest of any population.
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Historical Atrocities Shadow Vaccine Efforts
The national dialogue on immunizing people of color against COVID-19 has brought past atrocities to light, forcing a conversation on the deep distrust engendered by government “medical care,” such as the Tuskegee experiment.