May 1st, 2022
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CDC Revising Isolation Guidelines; Revisiting Airborne, Droplet Spread
Infection prevention leaders welcomed the CDC's plan to revise its 2007 patient isolation guideline, which will include dropping the current 206-page “textbook” approach for a leaner, more user-friendly document that healthcare workers can easily access and understand.
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Project Firstline: Teaching the ‘Why’ of Infection Prevention
In paring down its isolation guidelines, the CDC is moving in step with its Project Firstline initiative — an ambitious effort to teach all healthcare workers the basics of infection prevention.
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FDA Struggles to Find Way Forward on COVID-19 Vaccine
Vaccine advisors to the Food and Drug Administration face a tight timeline and a host of unknowns as they try to prepare for an expected winter surge of COVID-19, all the while acknowledging that any plan forward could be dashed by the emergence of a new variant of the pandemic virus.
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OSHA Finalizing COVID-19 Rule in Healthcare Settings
Under the CDC's current guidance for healthcare workers, many requirements for those workers are triggered based on the level of community transmission of COVID-19. Such an approach would create the flexibility many have been calling for, which have come with the warning that requirements set in regulatory stone could quickly be outdated by the changing nature of the pandemic.
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White House Targets Long COVID with Major Interagency Initiative
The Biden administration has launched a major initiative to better understand and treat long COVID, which manifests as brain fog, fatigue, and a panoply of other lingering symptoms in those with SARS-CoV-2.
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COVID-19 Vaccine Protects Mothers, Newborns
COVID-19 vaccination and pregnancy issues have been clouded by misinformation, leading women who are pregnant or trying to become pregnant to decline immunization. The accumulating evidence strongly suggests vaccination safeguards pregnant women against severe infection and also confers protective immunity to the newborn baby.
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Long COVID: The Winding Road Back
Clinical experts working with healthcare professionals who have acquired long COVID say it can be a hard road returning to work, but rehabilitation models used for other chronic conditions are proving helpful.