Articles Tagged With: COVID-19
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How Providers Can Weather the Pandemic
As pandemic messaging moves from containment to mitigation to recovery, national experts are giving healthcare providers tips on how to weather the storm.
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COVID-19 Shuts Down Nation; Family Planning Need Not Stop
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every aspect of American life, including nonemergency doctor visits. But from a family reproductive health point of view, the consequences of weeks of social distancing and quarantines can present new challenges.
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COVID-19 Pandemic Changes Nation While Hospitals and Case Managers Cope
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted American life and threatens to inundate hospitals with critically ill patients through the spring. Hospitals and case managers can use phone and video conferencing when feasible. Also, they can follow all infectious disease prevention measures.
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COVID-19’s Effects Hit Healthcare, Research Institutions
IRBs have learned that their disaster plans did not prepare them for the effects of a fast-moving virus, COVID-19, that has demonstrated its far-reaching ability to shut down normal business and social interactions.
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Officials Address Nation’s Ventilator Supply Shortage
Patients who become seriously ill after contracting COVID-19 may need these machines, but healthcare facilities worry there are not enough to go around.
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Professional Groups Send Lawmakers List of COVID-19 Needs
As Congress debates various relief packages, healthcare advocates try to ensure the feds give frontline providers what they need.
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FDA, U.S. Labs Team Up on COVID-19 Testing
Officials race against the clock to rapidly close the gap on kit shortages.
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Trump Uses Defense Production Act to Speed Medical Supply Production
Administration invokes Cold War-era authorization to allow American industry to close gap on shortages.
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Questions: COVID-19 Mortality, Conspiracy Theories, and the Mysterious Lack of Sick Children
Although there are variables by health status and age, the mortality of COVID-19 is about 10 times greater than a seasonal flu virus.
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CMS Drops Routine Surveys to Focus on COVID-19
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is suspending routine inspections to focus on issues related to infection control and COVID-19 in hospitals, nursing homes, and other accredited sites.