As COVID-19 Hospitalizations Increase Alarmingly, Workers and Patients Call for Better Standards
CDC(Adobe Stock, unknown)After almost 4 years of COVID with over 10,000 patients currently hospitalized, a 22% increase over last week, one must ask, what has...
What to Know About BA.2.86, the New Highly Mutated COVID-19 Variant Nicknamed ‘Pirola’ | Health News
Data is trickling in on a new COVID-19 strain nicknamed “pirola,” giving researchers a wider picture of what the variant could mean for the U.S....
COVID-19 Forecasts: Hospitalizations | CDC
Forecasted new COVID-19 hospital admissions as of August 21, 2023. Interpretation of Forecasts of New Hospitalizations This week’s national ensemble predicts that the number of...
CDC reports uptick in COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths
Photo: Alexandru Pavalache/Eye Em/Getty Images The number of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths is increasing, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's COVID Data...
Nose Picking Associated With 280% Higher Covid-19 Risk
Those who admitted to nose picking were 3.8 times as likely to catch the severe acute respiratory ... [+] syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) as those...
Yukon health-care workers faced high burnout during COVID-19: study
Yukon University has released research on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on frontline healthcare workers in the territory, per a July 20 release by...
B.C. maintains COVID-19 vaccine mandates for health care workers
B.C.’s Ministry of Health confirms that the COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers in the public system and care homes stands, a clarification...
U of T donates masks, gowns and other critical supplies to health-care workers combatting COVID-19
The University of Toronto is scouring labs across its three campuses for masks, gloves and other badly-needed protective equipment to donate to health-care workers on...
With COVID-19 emergency’s end, CDC updates infection control guidance
The federal public health emergency for COVID-19 ended in May, and one of the implications is that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
Overview of Testing for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19
Considerations When Testing People who are tested for COVID-19 should receive clear information on: The purpose of the test Whether the test is a nucleic...