About 64.6 percent of healthcare workers in Washington state who tested positive for the new coronavirus reported that they worked a median of two days while showing symptoms, a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association…
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Physicians in France confirmed a rare and fatal case of necrotizing pneumonia in a COVID-19 patient, according to research slated for publication in Emergency Infectious Diseases.
Physicians from Omaha-based University of Nebraska Medical Center created a mask for patients that can protect clinicians from potential contaminants, such as coronavirus particles, that patients could expel when they breathe.
Harborview Medical Center in Seattle has recorded the first case of a patient acquiring the new coronavirus while receiving treatment for another condition at the hospital, the medical director of its infection prevention and control program told The Seattle Times.
A National Institutes of Health study shows that N95 masks can be decontaminated and reused safely only two or three times, according to MedPage Today.
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The new coronavirus was widely distributed in the air and on object surfaces in both the intensive care unit and general ward at a hospital in China, a new study published in Emerging Infectious Diseases shows.
The CDC updated its infection control guidelines for healthcare facilities treating confirmed or suspected COVID-19 patients April 13, reports AHA News.
More than 9,000 healthcare employees have contracted COVID-19 in the U.S., according to CDC data released April 14.
In China, more than one-third of patients with COVID-19 had neurologic symptoms, a new study shows.
More than 117 million children in 37 countries may miss out on receiving measles vaccines as COVID-19 spreads, with measles immunization campaigns delayed in 24 countries, according to the Measles and Rubella Initiative.