About 45 percent of pregnant women who tested positive for the new coronavirus at hospitals in Massachusetts were not showing any symptoms, a new study shows.
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Flushing a toilet can generate fine air particles that may linger in the air or land on nearby surfaces, and a new study shows that those aerosols also can spread coronavirus particles, The New York Times reports.
About 12 percent of COVID-19 patients had gastrointestinal symptoms, including diarrhea, a new study shows.
Some visitors have alleged that not all staff are wearing face masks at Bradenton, Fla.-based Manatee Memorial Hospital, according to NBC's WFLA-TV.
Clinicians have accused Albuquerque, N.M.-based Lovelace Women's Hospital of racial profiling, saying a policy designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 is unfairly targeting Native American women, according to an investigative report from ProPublica and New Mexico In Depth.
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An internal Federal Emergency Management Agency document shows that the U.S. government's supply of surgical gowns and masks has not meaningfully increased, as reported by Roll Call.
About 208 million Americans are living in counties with no or very few infectious disease physicians, and many of these areas have been hit hardest by COVID-19, according to a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
Nurses and other front-line clinicians are raising concerns about a decontamination system used to disinfect N95 masks amid the pandemic, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Electrocardiography cables and lead wires are a critical component of monitoring patients in healthcare settings, but are often inadequately cleaned, which is a significant contributor to surgical-site infections, according to the American Journal of Infection Control.
The COVID-19 pandemic is ushering in a more infection-conscious era, with terms such as "personal protective equipment," "virus" and "infection" entering the common vernacular.