Vaccination
What's the status of the COVID-19 vaccine mandate in the US?
What's the status of the COVID-19 vaccine mandate in the U.S.?
Dec 2, 2021
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Medical research
Challenges faced by healthcare workers during COVID-19 pandemic
In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, while many of us remained in the safety of our own homes, frontline healthcare workers faced a sudden influx of patients with the new, highly contagious, life-threatening disease. ...
Nov 22, 2021
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Health
Does previous SARS experience help healthcare workers cope with COVID-19?
Previous work during the 2003 SARS outbreak has no overall impact on the psychological distress seen in healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, although it was associated with lower scores of PTSD and depression, ...
Nov 10, 2021
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Health
COVID-19 should change how hospitals reduce respiratory virus risk
A review of COVID-19 transmission prevention studies found that many health care facility infection control policies are based on outdated models of how respiratory viruses are transmitted. Based on current best understanding ...
Nov 9, 2021
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Medical economics
Decades of progress gone in one year: Tigray's healthcare system has been destroyed
The war in Ethiopia's Tigray region broke out on 4 November 2020. A survey done in parts of Tigray and investigative reports by human rights bodies Amnesty International and the Human Rights Watch show that thousands of civilians ...
Nov 2, 2021
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Medical research
Research shows mass production can make customised PPE for healthcare workers
Research published today has demonstrated the feasibility of mass producing customized respiratory protection for healthcare workers with a comfortable close-fitting seal, that is suitable for nearly 90% of face shapes and ...
Nov 2, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
PTSD in healthcare workers during pandemic could be exacerbated by past trauma
While some of the high rates of post-traumatic stress (PTSD) seen in healthcare workers during the pandemic are specifically COVID-19-related, a more significant number of cases were linked to trauma that occurred earlier ...
Oct 29, 2021
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Vaccination
Study: Despite partisan divide, workplace vaccine mandates have strong support
A solid 60 percent of U.S. residents support government-mandated COVID-19 workplace vaccinations, but there was a wide gap between Democrats and Republicans, according to a poll taken after President Biden ordered businesses ...
Oct 11, 2021
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Health informatics
Incorporating social determinants of health: Simplest solution may give the best results
Healthcare only accounts for a small percentage of a person's overall wellbeing and health, but external factors such as socioeconomic status and access to food are difficult to capture and leverage within the healthcare ...
Oct 7, 2021
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Health
Study gauges healthcare worker stress during pandemic
Healthcare workers, women, and people under age 50 experienced especially high levels of stress during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study published October 6th in the open-access journal PLOS ...
Oct 6, 2021
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