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Feds Order Bivalent Vaccines with Omicron
The Biden administration is securing orders for bivalent vaccines that are expected to combine the original Wuhan strain with omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5.
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Establishing a Hand Hygiene Culture of Accountability
A hospital established a “culture of accountability” by identifying and removing barriers to hand hygiene, one of which was the hesitancy to remind coworkers they need to wash their hands.
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Ten Percent of CRE Found in the Community
In a disturbing sign, a formidable superbug has left the hospital and appears to be spreading in the community in the absence of healthcare contact.
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U.S. Becoming Epicenter of Monkeypox Outbreak
The United States has had the most reported monkeypox cases of any country in world, with 10,392 cases as of Aug. 10, 2022. The next closest nation is Spain, with 5,162 cases.
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EPA, FDA Partner on Safer Medical Device Sterilization
Agencies seek cuts to ethylene oxide emissions, safe alternatives.
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A Shot in the Dark: FDA Adding Omicron to New Fall Vaccine
With the Omicron BA.5 subvariant currently the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States, vaccine experts have decided to add some component of the rapidly mutating virus to a new bivalent booster that will be rolled out this fall.
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A Matter of Semantics: IP Requirements in LTC
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology has been calling for infection preventionists in long-term care for years, but it took a pandemic and a catastrophic death toll among frail residents to finally spur substantive action from the government.
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Clinician: Vaccinate Children to Prevent Long COVID
With public health officials recently recommending vaccinating children as young as 6 months of age for COVID-19, a clinician voiced a passionate plea to immunize this vulnerable population to prevent severe outcomes and death.
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Under Cover of the Pandemic, a Deadly Fungus Spreads
While eclipsed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the multidrug-resistant fungus Candida auris continues to emerge in the healthcare settings and step-down facilities that can serve as reservoirs.
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Sterile Processing: Breakdowns in the Work … and the Workers
Improperly reprocessed medical instruments are associated with an increased risk of surgical site infection. A good understanding of your facility's sterile processing department can help ensure all areas touched by instrument reprocessing are working well together.