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COVID-19 in Early Infancy
An evaluation of 18 infants with COVID-19 in the first three months of their lives found that the illness generally was not severe despite the presence of very high viral loads.
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COVID-19: Lessons from Spring Break
A high rate of COVID-19 occurred as the result of an outbreak in spring breakers. Rapid recognition and intervention, as well as the youth and good health of those infected, was effective in limiting the adverse consequences.
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Updated Guidelines for HPV Vaccine
Recommendations call for providing vaccine to boys and girls starting at age 9 years.
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Pandemic Necessity Is the Mother of Invention
Hospital clinicians are using creative strategies and producing their own equipment to meet the outsized demands of treating patients during the novel coronavirus pandemic, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America reports.
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Pandemic Coronavirus May Kill the Handshake
The COVID-19 pandemic may be the death knell of the handshake, although its deep anthropological roots may resurface after the viral storm is over.
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Effects of COVID-19 on the Brain
Healthcare workers and patients who have contracted SARS-CoV-2, particularly if they were hospitalized, could be at risk of neurological deficits in the short term and as well as later cognitive problems.
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Patient Handwashing: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
The COVID-19 pandemic adds impetus to a longstanding mission of a nurse scientist: getting hospitalized patients to wash their hands. Somewhat surprisingly, this commonsense measure is not in effect at many facilities, although it is known that patients can contaminate their own invasive lines and self-inoculate infections.
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CMS Continues Infection Control Inspections for Coronavirus
The Center for Medicaid & Medicare Services continues to survey hospitals and long-term care facilities for infection control measures to prevent the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. The inspections assess the basics of hand hygiene, personal protective equipment (PPE), and staff education — things most facilities should be doing months into a pandemic.
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Trial by Fire: IPs Stand Fast Amid Unrelenting Pandemic
Infection preventionists are playing critical roles in the coronavirus response, raising the profile of a profession that will never be viewed quite the same again after having been forged in the crucible of the worst pandemic in a century.