Although health workers constitute about 3% of the population in most countries, they comprise 14% of COVID-19 cases reported to the World Health Organization (WHO), and in some countries account for up to 35% of COVID cases. WHO Director-General Tedros […]
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Before COVID-19 hit New York City, Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital had a flexible, 24-hour visitor policy for patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). People would visit their loved ones at any hour of the day, coming and going as
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Immigrant women receive dubious hysterectomies and staffers openly neglect even basic COVID precautions at Georgia’s Irwin County Detention Center, says LPN Dawn Wooten in a complaint filed by four non-governmental organizations. According to Wooten, the private immigrant detention facility has
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As Xinyi Christine Zhang watched the COVID-19 death toll among healthcare workers rise this spring, she wanted to find a way to give solace — and thanks — to their families. The 15-year-old teen, of South Brunswick Township, New Jersey,
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Enterprise High School students refused to allow anti-mask protesters to disrupt the start of the new school year. Senior Dalee Cobb, a cheerleader and javelin thrower, declared, “I feel like the opinion of parents and adults in general right now
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Having to wear PPE creates a communication barrier that imposes a heavy burden on nurses. Patients look to nurses for information, help, and comfort, but now—at a time when they depend on nurses more than ever—you have to interact while
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In March, when New York City staggered under the weight of the COVID-19 outbreak, the images of refrigerator trucks, overwhelmed hospitals, and outdoor triage centers set Amy Kinder’s caregiving instincts afire. On April 5, 2020, the ER nurse left her
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Nurses are increasingly being forced to reuse N95 masks, sometimes for five days or longer, and growing numbers of nurses said they feel unsafe reusing masks even after they were decontaminated, according to the latest in a series of nursing
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When it seems hard to persuade people in the grip of a pandemic to wear masks, it is understandable if you sigh at the prospect of reminding them to get vaccinated for this year’s flu viruses. Amid all the changes
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Vilified, threatened with violence or in some cases suffering from burnout, dozens of state and local public health officials around the U.S. have resigned or have been fired amid the coronavirus outbreak, a testament to how politically combustible masks, lockdowns,
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