January 4, 2021
(New York Times) – The Indian Health Service had a problem. Fed up with substandard care, one of the two pueblos whose federal funding helped support the health service’s Acoma-Cañoncito-Laguna hospital in Acoma Pueblo, N.M., decided to take its share … Read More
December 31, 2020
(The Atlantic) – Yet the country has never succeeded at protecting the vulnerable, our data show. In December alone, at least 20,455 people have died in long-term-care facilities and nursing homes, the greatest toll since the COVID Tracking Project began … Read More
December 29, 2020
(MSN) – When front-line workers at Stanford Health Care were passed over for the first wave of coronavirus vaccines, officials at the hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., blamed the “very complex algorithm” it had built to decide employees’ place in … Read More
December 28, 2020
(Medscape) – Everywhere they look within hospitals, researchers find RNA from SARS-CoV-2 in the air. But viable viruses typically are found only close to patients, according to a review of published studies. The finding supports recommendations to use surgical masks … Read More
December 24, 2020
(ABC News) – Doctors, pharmacists and dentists in Kenya called off a three-day strike over inadequate personal protective equipment and insurance Thursday after the government acquiesced to their most immediate demands. However, most other health workers remained on strike as … Read More
December 23, 2020
(Kaiser Health News) – Ten months into the pandemic, it has become far clearer why tens of thousands of health care workers have been infected by the virus and why so many have died: dire PPE shortages. Limited COVID tests. … Read More
December 23, 2020
(Medscape) – After infection with SARS-CoV-2, antibodies protect most healthcare workers from reinfection for up to 6 months, results of the first prospective study of the subject reveal. The main message for healthcare workers is, “if you’ve had COVID, at … Read More
December 18, 2020
(NPR) – Emergency room physician Cleavon Gilman compares working in a hospital amid the pandemic to war. “You can actually die at your job now, and that’s never really been an issue before,” he says. He has the experience to … Read More
December 17, 2020
(Associated Press) – The first COVID-19 vaccinations are underway at U.S. nursing homes, where the virus has killed more than 110,000 people, even as the nation struggles to contain a surge so alarming it has spurred California to dispense thousands … Read More
December 16, 2020
(Medscape) – A panel of scientific experts is urging the nation to do more to track morbidity and mortality among healthcare workers (HCWs), given the large and disproportionate number who have been infected with or died from SARS-CoV-2. The National … Read More
