The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a key Biden administration covid-19 initiative — putting a stop, for now, to a rule requiring businesses with more than 100 workers to either mandate that employees be vaccinated against covid or wear masks and ... [Continue Reading]
Una prueba rápida negativa no significa que se está libre de covid
Julie Ann Justo, farmacéutica clínica de enfermedades infecciosas para un sistema hospitalario de Carolina del Sur, esperaba que la semana de Navidad finalmente fuera el momento en que su familia pudiera reunirse de manera segura. ... [Continue Reading]
What Patients Can Learn With Confidence From One Negative Rapid Test (Hint: Very Little)
Julie Ann Justo, an infectious disease clinical pharmacist for a South Carolina hospital system, hoped Christmas week would finally be the time her family could safely gather for a reunion. Before the celebration, family members ... [Continue Reading]
La máscara de tela, ¿es lo suficientemente buena contra omicron?
La super contagiosa variante omicron se está extendiendo por los Estados Unidos, provocando un dramático aumento de casos y saturando muchos sistemas hospitalarios. Además de instar a los estadounidenses a vacunarse y recibir el ... [Continue Reading]
Ask KHN-PolitiFact: Is My Cloth Mask Good Enough? The 2022 Edition
The highly transmissible omicron variant is sweeping the U.S., causing a huge spike in covid-19 cases and overwhelming many hospital systems. Besides urging Americans to get vaccinated and boosted, public health officials are recommending that people ... [Continue Reading]
Fire Closes Hospital and Displaces Staff as Colorado Battles Omicron
The Colorado wildfire that destroyed more than 1,000 homes last month has forced the temporary closure of a hospital and upended the lives of health care workers as the state’s already strained health care system braces for another surge in ... [Continue Reading]
Supreme Court Weighs Biden’s Workplace Vaccine Requirements
The Supreme Court on Friday took up one of the most contentious issues of the covid-19 pandemic, hearing a series of cases challenging the Biden administration’s authority to require workers to get a covid vaccine or be tested for the virus ... [Continue Reading]
Deep brain stimulation treatment provides hope for patients with severe anorexia nervosa
A Brisbane trial using deep brain stimulation could offer a new lifeline for people suffering from severe treatment-resistant anorexia nervosa. SOURCE: ABC News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
How to fight a variant – this might be the hopeful COVID story you are looking for right now
Variant-proof vaccines are the next great goal in efforts to control COVID-19 and while there is a long way to go, these Australian scientists are closing in on the answers — with a little help from genetically engineered mice. SOURCE: ABC News - ... [Continue Reading]
As Patients Fell Ill With Covid Inside Hospitals, Government Oversight Fell Short
One by one, the nurses taking care of actress Judi Evans at Riverside Community Hospital kept calling out sick. Patients were coughing as staffers wheeled the maskless soap opera star around the California hospital while ... [Continue Reading]
Watch: One City’s Effort to Raise Vaccination Rates Among Black Residents
About 72% of Americans have received at least one dose of a covid-19 vaccine. During much of the vaccine rollout, Hispanic and Black Americans have been less likely than white Americans to get vaccinated. The gap between white and Hispanic Americans ... [Continue Reading]
United States approves the first covid-19 pill
It's hoped the Paxlovid COVID-19 pill will be a tool to combat the fast-spreading omicron variant. Jade MacMillan reports. SOURCE: ABC News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]