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Hospitals Can Promote Healthy Eating in Food Deserts

As one medical center shows, it is possible for health systems and healthcare professionals, including case managers, to reduce food insecurity in their communities through a variety of programs. The goal could be to bring more healthy food and fresh fruits and vegetables to people who live in food deserts where such produce is hard to obtain.

Returning to In-Person Case Management

As the country begins to pull out of the COVID-19 pandemic, the opportunity for case managers to return to the bedside provides the welcome relief of meeting with the interdisciplinary team, patients, and families in person. But for many people, returning from a remote environment after several months is another challenging shift to experience.

Report: Patients Sicker Now Than Before the COVID-19 Pandemic

Delayed care also driving longer lengths of stay, price increases for labor and supplies.

Outcomes of COVID-19-Associated Acute Myocarditis

In a review of COVID-19-associated acute myocarditis, investigators learned it is a rare complication that can occur without concomitant pneumonia, and frequently presents as cardiogenic shock. With supportive therapy, the short-term mortality rate is low.

COVID-19 Rebound

Symptomatic and virologic recrudescence after treatment of patients with COVID-19 with nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (Paxlovid) — Paxlovid rebound — occurs in a very small percentage of patients and generally is mild and self-limited.

Paxlovid Rebound Concerns Are Overblown

A cohort of 483 high-risk patients was treated with nirmatrelvir/ritonavir for COVID-19. Two of the patients (0.4%) required hospitalization by day 30, and four patients (0.8%) experienced a rebound of symptoms (generally mild) at median of nine days after treatment. All resolved without additional COVID-19-directed therapy.

COVID-19: Duration of Shedding of Transmissible Virus

Patients with COVID-19 were found, by culture, to shed replication-competent virus after an initial positive polymerase chain reaction test for median durations four to five days.

Clinician: Vaccinate Children to Prevent Long COVID

With public health officials recently recommending vaccinating children as young as 6 months of age for COVID-19, a clinician voiced a passionate plea to immunize this vulnerable population to prevent severe outcomes and death.

A Matter of Semantics: IP Requirements in LTC

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology has been calling for infection preventionists in long-term care for years, but it took a pandemic and a catastrophic death toll among frail residents to finally spur substantive action from the government.

A Shot in the Dark: FDA Adding Omicron to New Fall Vaccine

With the Omicron BA.5 subvariant currently the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States, vaccine experts have decided to add some component of the rapidly mutating virus to a new bivalent booster that will be rolled out this fall.

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