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Hospital Visitation Restrictions Are Hurting Patients and Nurses — New protocols and COVID mitigation techniques can enable safe visitation
September 8, 2021Medpage Today | by Karen Cox, PhD, RN, and Tejal K. Gandhi, MD, MPH September 2, 2021 As COVID-19 began rapidly spreading across the U.S., hospitals adopted policies that prohibited patient visitation — a
Primary Care is Key to COVID-19 Vaccine Dissemination but is Left Out So Far
January 8, 2021Vaccine Rollout Offers Hope, But Primary Care’s Capacity is Compromised
Some reliable resources about who should get the COVID-19 vaccine and what to consider
January 8, 2021Whether or not you, as an individual, should get the COVID-19 vaccine should be a decision made on an person by person basis. We are not making any recommendations either
Bleed Out, the HBO Movie of a family’s experience with Medical Malpractice
December 21, 2020Bleed Out – an HBO Film ¡Película ahora en inglés y español! Medical error is the third leading cause of death in the U.S. After a routine partial hip replacement operation
Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker
December 21, 2020On Nov. 9, New York-based Pfizer and the German company BioNTech made history by presenting preliminary data indicating that their coronavirus vaccine was over 90 percent effective. It was the first time anyone had
3 Covid-19 Trials Have Been Paused for Safety. That’s a Good Thing.
October 15, 2020NY Times Health | By Carl Zimmer | Oct. 14, 2020, 12:36 p.m. ET Experts were comforted that companies are following safety precautions. They pointed out that pauses in vaccine
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: How COVID Spreads Indoors
October 7, 2020October 6, 2020 | Frank Diamond While reiterating that SARS-CoV-2 most commonly spreads through close contact (less than 6 feet, and for about 15 minutes) with a symptomatic or
COVID-19 Frequently asked questions answered
July 8, 2020The New York Times | The Coronavirus Outbreak | July 8, 2020 Frequently Asked Questions Is the coronavirus airborne? The coronavirus can stay aloft for hours in tiny droplets in stagnant
Airborne Coronavirus: What You Should Do Now
July 8, 2020The New York Times | The Coronavirus Outbreak | By Apoorva Mandavilli | July 6, 2020 Leer en español The coronavirus can stay aloft for hours in tiny droplets in stagnant air, infecting
COVID-19 and Health Equity — Serving the Underserved, Poorly Served, and Never Served
June 10, 2020National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine | Feature Story | May 5, 2020 | By Stephanie Miceli The novel coronavirus has been called “the great equalizer,” when in reality, it has only