At the beginning of prioritized health care personnel (HPC) immunization, there was a high rate of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and receipt, with physicians and advance practice providers having the highest overall proportion. ...
Apr 12, 2021
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The Biden administration has taken the first step toward ending an emergency exception that allowed hospitals to ration and reuse N95 medical masks, the first line of defense between frontline workers and the deadly coronavirus.
Apr 23, 2021
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Government leaders should not be allowed to move to the front of the line for COVID-19 vaccinations unless the criteria for such prioritization is well reasoned, clearly articulated in advance, and transparently applied, ...
Jan 26, 2021
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Troops have been deployed to London hospitals. Health care workers infected with COVID-19 are treating patients in France. The Netherlands is under a lockdown, and tented field hospitals have gone up in Sicily.
Jan 7, 2022
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(AP)—The head of the House panel that oversees veterans' issues says patients who have trouble getting timely mental health care from Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics should have another option: access to the thousands ...
Jan 29, 2013
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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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The United States and Britain will send medical equipment and military personnel to help contain West Africa's Ebola outbreak, as the World Health Organization warned Monday that many thousands of new infections are expected ...
Sep 8, 2014
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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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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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(HealthDay)—COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective under real-world conditions in preventing symptomatic disease in health care personnel, according to a study published online Sept. 22 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Sep 28, 2021
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