Articles Tagged With: COVID-19
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CMS: Infection Preventionists Required in Nursing Homes
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has finalized requirements in long-term care that call for at least a part-time infection preventionist and emphasizes Certification in Infection Prevention and Control as a key credential of expertise.
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Evidence of Clinical Efficacy of Bebtelovimab in COVID-19
In a retrospective study, bebtelovimab demonstrated efficacy similar to Paxlovid in high-risk outpatients with recent onset of COVID-19 who reported mild to moderate symptoms.
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Vaccine Second Shot, Boosters Kick in Protective Effect
A study of healthcare and other frontline workers with COVID-19 showed a history of two or three mRNA vaccine doses significantly reduced the severity of illness. Workers who received two or three doses of vaccine reported less fever and chills, less need for medical care, and lower viral load than in the non-vaccinated cohort.
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Study Reveals Real-Time Data on STIs by Following Reddit Posts
Recent research shows that using the social media platform Reddit can help investigators gain insights into sexual risk behaviors and symptoms of STIs in real time. Anonymous Reddit posts were leveraged by investigators to better understand people’s sexual behaviors and experiences with STIs before and during COVID-19.
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Healthcare Teams Want Transparency, Recognition from Leaders During Crises
When researchers studied how COVID-19 surges affected teamwork, they found something essential and seemingly innocuous: Frontline staff, including care coordinators, wanted face time with their leaders.
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Research Shows How Teamwork Changed During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 crisis response relied on interprofessional teamwork. But for care coordinators and pharmacists, the team experience during the pandemic was far from optimal, according to a recent study.
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Can Maternal COVID-19 Vaccination Protect Newborns?
In this case control study, 537 case infants younger than 6 months of age who were admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 were compared to 512 control infants who were hospitalized for other reasons; 16% of the case infants and 29% of the control infants had been born to mothers who had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 during the pregnancy. The effectiveness of maternal vaccination against infant hospitalization for COVID-19 was 52% overall, 80% during the Delta variant period, and 38% during the Omicron variant period. Effectiveness increased when the vaccine was received after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
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COVID-19: Beware Remdesivir Resistance
Hogan and colleagues reported two immunosuppressed renal transplant recipients with persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection in association with the new emergence of mutations in ribonucleic acid (RNA)-dependent RNA polymerase after remdesivir treatment.
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Evidence of Clinical Efficacy of Bebtelovimab in COVID-19
A retrospective study found that bebtelovimab has efficacy similar to that of nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (Paxlovid) in the treatment of high-risk outpatients with recent onset of COVID-19 who have mild to moderate symptoms.
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Handwashing Compliance Often Not as Good as Leaders Hope
Hand hygiene is fundamental to patient safety. But for many healthcare organizations, maintaining compliance with good handwashing practices is a challenge. Compliance seemed to improve at many facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, but some research suggests clinicians are regressing to old habits.