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.ARTICLES, ADVICE & ADVOCACY
COVID-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool
Georgia Institute of Technology
Americans can assess their risk of contracting COVID-19 when attending an event this holiday season using a tool created by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. The "COVID-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool" examines the risk that at least one individual infected with COVID-19 is present at an event based on its size and geographic location.
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ANA Collaborates With CDC to Launch Project Firstline
ANA
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the need for a unified and standardized approach to infection control measures. Project Firstline provides core web-based training with COVID-19 specific knowledge about germ transmission and infection prevention and control.
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California Issues Travel Advisory as State Reaches 1 Million Coronavirus Cases
San Francisco Examiner
Restrictions are tightening back up in California’s reopening framework following tier demotions handed down to nine counties recently, a response to coronavirus spread that has been spiking across the state for close to a month. In the latest mitigating measure announced amid the worsening nationwide surge, the governors of the three West Coast states also issued a joint advisory, strongly urging against nonessential out-of-state travel. The advisory asks those who do travel to self-quarantine for 14 days upon arrival in California, Oregon or Washington.
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There Are 2 Effective COVID-19 Vaccines. What's Next?
POLITICO
The recent news that a second coronavirus vaccine has proven more than 90% effective in late-stage trials could be a game-changer, but the hard work isn’t over. Governments and vaccine developers are still figuring out how to distribute limited early stocks of the shots, whether they can pump up production to meet intense global demand, and — at least in the United States — how to overcome a rising tide of vaccine hesitancy.
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ANA Statement on Asymptomatic COVID-19 Positive Nurses Providing Care
ANA
The American Nurses Association (ANA) is very disappointed that eight months into the COVID-19 pandemic, community spread of the virus is widespread and accelerating, resulting in unprecedented numbers of new cases and high levels of hospitalizations in urban and rural areas in many states. This surge places pressure on healthcare systems and hospitals to implement crisis standards of care, such as requesting that nurses who are COVID-19 positive continue to work and provide patient care. ANA maintains that COVID-19 positive nurses have the right to choose whether they are well enough to work. Under no circumstances should a nurse be pressured to work, and employers should never retaliate against nor penalize a nurse for choosing to prioritize self-care.
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A Solution to Student Nurse Clinical Rotation Cancellations
HealthImpact
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced universities and colleges to cancel student nurse clinical rotations and mandate online-only instruction. Without completing this requisite, student nurses risk failing to graduate. This will have a significant impact on the workforce and institutions that rely on these graduates to fill vacancies. In response to this critical need, HealthImpact’s California Simulation Alliance (CSA) has partnered with NovEx Novice to Expert Learning, LLC, to provide an online, immersive MedSurg clinical replacement simulation to universities and colleges across the United States.
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Episode 41: The Future of Clinical Education
The Handoff
Lawrence Sherman is the CEO of Meducate Global, a consultancy whose goal is to improve the education of healthcare professionals around the world. He and Dan talk about how the landscape for clinical education is changing, and how those changes have been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic as learning has moved from a face-to-face setting to a digital one.
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How Long Should Docs and Nurses With COVID Stay Home?
Medscape
Let's say you're exposed to the coronavirus. Maybe you test positive and have mild symptoms, or none at all. And let's say you're working in a short-staffed hospital. Do you stay home? It's actually complicated. But when it comes to what others should do, it's not complicated. We tell people exactly what the guidelines are.
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Interferon Beta-1a May Help COVID-19 Patients Recover Faster
CIDRAP
The Lancet Respiratory Medicine recently published the results of a clinical trial showing that the inhaled immune response protein interferon beta-1a reduced the chances of hospitalized COVID-19 patients becoming severely ill or dying of their infection.
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.NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY
'You can see the regret': ICU nurse on patients who failed to take COVID precautions
NPR
Across the U.S., coronavirus cases are surging and pushing the healthcare system to its limits.
Every day since Election Day, more than 100,000 people in the country have tested positive for the virus.
In many places, there aren't enough nurses and doctors to handle the rising caseloads, and staffing agencies are slammed with requests for more.
One person helping meet those requests is Lydia Mobley, an intensive care unit nurse with Fastaff Travel Nursing. After a year of active duty with the U.S. Navy, she returned to nursing and is now on a 10-week contract, working in an ICU unit at a hospital in central Michigan.
Protests roiled Mobley's home state earlier in the pandemic after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, issued shutdown orders.
Even now, Mobley says, she sees many people who still don't wear masks. That's particularly hard for her, as a nurse who treats critical COVID-19 patients in the ICU.
She says she encounters "multiple patients" on "every shift" who acknowledge they didn't take the warnings seriously.
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The more proactive you are, the more successful a HCP you might be
Florence Health
Proactive people tend to create positive outcomes. And compared to reactive people, they tend to perform at higher levels. Now, a study out of the University of Notre Dame found that doctors and nurses who were proactive, which is defined as the tendency to create change through personal initiative, were more successful during the pandemic.
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Biden unveils COVID-19 advisory board, says 'bold action' needed to fight virus
Healio
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris announced a 13-member COVID-19 advisory board and a seven-point plan to fight the virus.
“There is a need for bold action to fight this pandemic,” Biden said during a recent press conference. “We are still facing a very dark winter.”
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MULTIBRIEFS EXCLUSIVE
Telehealth is changing healthcare — patients are telling us so
By Scott E. Rupp
 If 2020 has taught us nothing else, it's that telehealth is likely here to stay. But why? Convenience is critical to its success, but it can bridge the gap of care between caregivers and patients during the pandemic. It's proving to be a legitimate solution to reaching patients in underserved areas. Telehealth technology is no longer a concept but a tried and mostly trusted solution for care delivery. Since the height of the pandemic, patients' use has fallen, but people still like what it has to offer, and its use seems to be reaching critical mass.
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New COVID-19 strategy: Vaccinate potential superspreaders first
Macquarie University via Medical Xpress
With thousands of scientists around the world racing to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, policy makers may need to decide who is at the front of the vaccination queue if initial supplies are limited.
Such decisions loom closer as drug giant Pfizer announces a vaccine that is 90% effective in people not previously infected with the virus, and researchers at Macquarie University, QUT and Australia's national agency CSIRO may have a solution once a vaccine is ready.
They've developed a theoretical model for a new vaccination strategy that would have the biggest impact — with the least amount of resources — on suppressing the spread of the coronavirus by identifying locations visited by people who are most likely to become so-called superspreaders and vaccinating them.
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ADA: Social determinants of health key drivers of diabetes outcomes
Healio
Social determinants of health are essential intervention targets to achieve health equity among people with diabetes, according to a new scientific review from the American Diabetes Association.
The ADA convened a writing committee to review past evidence and research on diabetes risks and outcomes as they relate to social determinants of health, as well as the effects of interventions on social determinants. The scientific review, published in Diabetes Care, is an update to an earlier review published in 2013.
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Hearing test may detect autism in newborns
University of Miami via EurekAlert!
For years, researchers have known through numerous studies that hearing and other sensory systems of adults and children who have autism differ from children or adults without autism.
Now, University of Miami and Harvard Medical School researchers who explored responses to the standard hearing test administered to millions of newborns around the world, are closing in on a way to detect early indicators of autism — perhaps as early as at birth.
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Telemedicine is keeping kids' asthma care on track
HealthDay News
The use of telemedicine led to an increase in the number of inner-city kids in Los Angeles who kept asthma-related doctor appointments during the coronavirus pandemic, new research shows.
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Research looks at aerobiomes, trees and implications for public health
News-Medical
Urbanization and loss of macro-biodiversity are linked to loss of microbial diversity, which could negatively impact the health-supporting microbial communities residing in and on human bodies — the human microbiome.
In a recent bioRxiv preprint paper, Jake M. Robinson and colleagues study the dynamics of "aerobiome" — the collection of microorganisms in a given airspace, with respect to the height from the ground level. The study of the dynamics of near-surface aerobiomes in urban green spaces is minimal. However, studies show that the aerobiomes differ in urban and semi-urban spaces. They are distinct in urban green and grey spaces and are modulated by the vegetation type and are influenced by local changes such as weather or land management.
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How to ensure patients manage their chronic kidney disease
Duke-NUS Medical School via Medical Xpress
Patients with chronic kidney disease are more likely to take an active role in managing their health if they have specific information about what to eat, good communication with their doctor, and strong family support, researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School and SingHealth Polyclinics report in the journal BMJ Open.
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First non-human primate study showing promise of gene therapy for stroke repair
Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Institute of CNS Regeneration, Jinan University via EurekAlert!
Stroke is a leading cause of death and severe long-term disability with limited treatment available. A research team led by Prof. Gong Chen at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China recently reported the first non-human primate study demonstrating successful in vivo neural regeneration from brain internal glial cells for stroke repair. This work was published on Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology recently.
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