Articles Tagged With: COVID-19
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Healthcare Workers Weather Respiratory Onslaught
In a seemingly interminable viral winter, healthcare workers are facing a rare convergence of a pandemic virus and unusually high levels of seasonal flu and respiratory syncytial virus. Some are tired and sick; others sick of being tired. As EDs stretch capacity to the limits to treat respiratory patients, others with various conditions and critical needs are backed up.
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Telehealth for Contraception Works, Increasing Access for Patients
Contraceptive care providers and staff wish to sustain telehealth long past the COVID-19 pandemic era in which telehealth was more widely used, according to a recent study of telehealth in Illinois.
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Many Safety Net, Rural Hospitals Do Not Properly Address Social Needs
Safety net hospitals, critical care hospitals, and rural hospitals often do less than needed to address the social determinants of health of their vulnerable populations, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, new research shows.
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Case Management Leaders Advocate for Improved SDOH Assessments
Improving social determinants of health assessments will help the healthcare industry evolve and improve medical care and efficiency. Case management leaders should collect data to show hospital leaders how their work with social determinants can help a health system meet its goals.
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COVID-19: Beware Remdesivir Resistance
Researchers reported two immunosuppressed renal transplant recipients with persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection in association with the new emergence of mutations in RNA-dependent RNA polymerase after remdesivir treatment.
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
Loss of Monoclonal Therapy for COVID-19; Cost-Savings of Outpatient Antimicrobial Therapy
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Vaccine Second Shot, Boosters Kick in Protective Effect
A study of healthcare and other frontline workers with COVID-19 showed that a history of two or three messenger ribonucleic acid vaccine doses lessened the severity of illness significantly.
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Viral Swarm: ‘Tripledemic’ Pushes Healthcare Facilities to the Brink
Respiratory infections are causing hospitalizations and deaths nationally in an unprecedented trifecta of influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, and COVID-19.
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Reproductive Health Workforce May Look Different in 10 Years
The reproductive health workforce has changed considerably in the past few years. It is possible it will continue to evolve over the next decade. COVID-19 placed an incredible strain on the workforce, and it is facing a second huge strain because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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Congress Issues Special Report on COVID-19 Pandemic
A select subcommittee exhaustively detailed what went wrong and offered suggestions on how to prevent future disasters.