Articles Tagged With: transmission
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Analysis: Nurses at High Risk of Contracting COVID-19
Investigators emphasized the need for rigorous infection control practices in healthcare settings as well as mitigation efforts aimed at reducing transmission of the virus in the community.
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Can Chopsticks Carry SARS-CoV-2?
This small study suggests salivary contamination of utensils with SARS-CoV-2 virus can occur. Sharing food and utensils, or using communal food bowls, probably is not a good idea if one is trying to avoid COVID-19.
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Possible Aerosol Spread of SARS-CoV-2 in an Apartment Building
Although not definitive, evidence is consistent with aerosol spread of SARS-CoV-2 in an apartment building as a result of transport through the drainage system to apartments directly above.
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Cloth Masks — Just for Looks?
How effective are homemade fabric masks many are using to protect others from COVID-19 transmission?
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What surveyors asked ED nurses about drug storage
Surveyors walking through an ED see medication by a patient's bedside table with no staff in the vicinity. Or a medication is lying in plain sight on a counter by the nurse's station, and visitors have full access to it. -
Tuberculosis: A Primer
Tuberculosis (TB) is the second most common infectious cause of death in adults worldwide after HIV/AIDS. -
Full July 1, 2007 Issue in PDF
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Staph infection numbers moving in wrong direction
The numbers are in and they aren't good. Data presented recently in Baltimore at the annual meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America document an inexorable increase in staph infections in the nation's hospitals.