By mid-November, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had reported that 218,439 health care workers in the U.S. had been infected with COVID-19—a likely underestimate due to incomplete data from states. About ...
Jan 12, 2021
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Wearing cooling vests during a COVID-19 shift ensures that nurses experience less heat during their work. During their shifts, nurses wear protective clothing for three hours in a row, during which the temperature can rise ...
Jan 7, 2021
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Many health care facilities still have crisis standards of care for use of personal protective equipment (PPE), according to the results of a survey released by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology ...
Dec 17, 2020
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The COVID-19 vaccine is an important tool to help stop the ongoing pandemic, along with masking and physical distancing. Mayo Clinic's COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation and Distribution Workgroup have put together a list of questions ...
Dec 14, 2020
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Every year, tens of millions of Americans avoid the flu vaccine. During the 2019-2020 flu season, fewer than half of U.S. adults got the shot.
Dec 10, 2020
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(HealthDay)—Six percent of health care personnel (HCP) caring for patients with COVID-19 have positive test results for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) antibodies, according to research published ...
Sep 1, 2020
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Military personnel who are at a greater risk of suicide are more likely to unsafely store firearms in unlocked cabinets where they can access them easily, according to a Rutgers researcher.
Jul 13, 2020
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Dayna James has been an emergency nurse for 17 years—and thought the COVID-19 pandemic would mean she'd have more work than ever.
May 13, 2020
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(HealthDay)—Expanding COVID-19 symptom screening criteria to include myalgias and chills could identify more health care personnel (HCP) with the illness, according to a research letter published online April 17 in the ...
Apr 21, 2020
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At Long Island Community Hospital, nurses and other workers knew about three dozen of their own were out sick with COVID-19. At least one, popular intensive care unit nurse Ali Dennis Guillermo, was on a breathing machine ...
Apr 21, 2020
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