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.NURSING FLASH
.ARTICLES, ADVICE & ADVOCACY
Biden-Harris Transition Announces COVID-19 Advisory Board Members
President-Elect Joe Biden
Jane Hopkins, RNMH, trained as a nurse in England, specializing in mental health. Hopkins worked for over 20 years as a bedside nurse, most recently at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle and Snoqualmie Hospital. Hopkins was a bargaining team member before becoming an organizer, and later Executive Vice President, with SEIU Healthcare 1199NW.
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Coronavirus Hospitalizations Surge in California, Raising New Alarms
Recordnet.com
The number of people hospitalized with coronavirus infections in California has doubled in just the last two weeks and is rapidly headed to breaking past its summertime high, according to a Times analysis. The surge in hospitalizations came as California surpassed another bleak milestone: more than 19,000 deaths related to COVID-19, according to the Times’ independent county-by-county tally.
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Map of California Coronavirus Tiers: 2 More Bay Area Counties Under Curfew
The Mercury News
Fifty-one of the state’s 58 counties are in the purple tier, meaning they are subject to the curfew that started on Nov. 21. Those counties are: Del Norte, Siskiyou, Modoc, Humboldt, Trinity, Shasta, Lassen, Tehama, Mendocino, Glenn, Butte, Plumas, Sutter, Yuba, Lake, Nevada, Colusa, Placer, El Dorado, Sacramento, Yolo, Solano, Napa, Sonoma, San Francisco, San Mateo, Contra Costa, Alameda, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Joaquin, Calaveras, Stanislaus, Tuolumne, Merced, Madera, San Benito, Monterey, Fresno, Kings, Tulare, Kern, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, San Diego, Imperial.
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As Thousands of Athletes Get Coronavirus Tests, Nurses Wonder: What About Us?
Washington Post
Among the haves are professional and college athletes. That’s been true, and a subject of fierce debate, since at least March, when entire rosters of NBA teams got tested for the virus before many Americans could access tests. As sports lurched back to life over the summer, health experts debated the ethics of entire leagues jumping to the front of the testing line. But ultimately the leagues, with billions of revenue dollars at stake, contracted with private labs to pay for the best and fastest tests available — a luxury many hospitals and other healthcare providers, reeling from the pandemic, can’t afford.
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Moderna To File For FDA Emergency Use Authorization For COVID-19 Vaccine
Axios
Moderna announced that it plans to file with the FDA recently for an emergency use authorization for its coronavirus vaccine, which the company said has an efficacy rate of 94.1%. Why it matters: Moderna will become the second company to file for a vaccine EUA after Pfizer did the same recently, potentially paving the way for the U.S. to have two COVID-19 vaccines in distribution by the end of the year. The company said its vaccine has a 100% efficacy rate against severe COVID cases.
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Federal System For Tracking Hospital Beds And COVID-19 Patients Provides Questionable Data
Science
In mid-November, as the United States set records for newly diagnosed COVID-19 cases day after day, the hospital situation in one hard-hit state, Wisconsin, looked concerning but not yet urgent by one crucial measure. The main pandemic data tracking system run by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), dubbed HHS Protect, reported that on Nov. 16, 71% of the state’s hospital beds were filled. Wisconsin officials who rely on the data to support and advise their increasingly strained hospitals might have concluded they had some margin left.
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Breastmilk Harbors Antibodies To SARS-CoV-2, Study Suggests
The Scientist Magazine
Milk from lactating moms may hold potent antibodies to counter SARS-CoV-2 infections, according to a new study of 15 women. All of the samples from women who had recovered from COVID-19 and who were breastfeeding babies at the time had antibodies reactive to the virus’s spike protein, researchers report in the November issue of iScience.
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.NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY
Soaring COVID-19 hospitalizations again put traveling nurses in demand
The Wall Street Journal
As the number of people hospitalized due to the coronavirus rises across the U.S., hospitals are turning to a tactic they used in earlier surges: hiring more traveling nurses.
Demand is so great that hospitals are paying as much as twice the usual hourly pay for nurses, in one case $140 an hour, traveling-nurse agencies and hospital-industry leaders say.
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MULTIBRIEFS EXCLUSIVE
Study: Hospital charges are spiking
By Seth Sandronsky
A new study from National Nurses United/California Nurses Association looks at Medicare cost reports for 4,203 hospitals in fiscal year 2018. These hospitals "are charging on average over $417 for every $100 in their total costs." The study was released on Nov. 17. "This is one of the most egregious examples of what you have with a system based on profit, not patient need," Chuck Idelson, spokesperson for the NNU/CNA, told MultiBriefs by phone. A case in point is patients who need healthcare but avoid it due to hospital costs. That is especially risky during the COVID-19 pandemic, which is exploding across the U.S.
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WHO calls on global health partners to step up the fight against malaria
News-Medical
The World Health Organization is calling on countries and global health partners to step up the fight against malaria, a preventable and treatable disease that continues to claim hundreds of thousands of lives each year.
A better targeting of interventions, new tools and increased funding are needed to change the global trajectory of the disease and reach internationally-agreed targets.
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Risk factors may identify asymptomatic C. difficile carriers
Healio
Asymptomatic Clostridioides difficile colonization is significantly associated with previous hospitalization, gastric acid suppression, tube feeding and corticosteroid use, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis.
“There is growing interest in the role of asymptomatic C. difficile-colonized patients as a potential source of transmission,” Abhishek Deshpande MD, PhD, of the Center for Value-Based Care Research at the Cleveland Clinic, told Healio. “However, few studies have specifically evaluated the risk factors for C. difficile colonization among hospitalized adults.”
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ECDC and WHO call for improved HIV testing in Europe
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control via EurekAlert!
The number of people living with undiagnosed HIV is increasing in the WHO European Region. According to data published recently by ECDC and the WHO/Europe, more than 136,000 people were newly diagnosed in 2019 — roughly 20% of these diagnoses were in the EU/EAA and 80% in the eastern part of the European Region.
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MULTIBRIEFS EXCLUSIVE
As hospitals shutter elective surgeries again, patients return to virtual care
By Scott E. Rupp
Hospitals across the United States are once again setting aside elective surgeries as COVID makes another surge across the globe. As this plays out, many hospitals are returning to the early days of the pandemic when such procedures were canceled or postponed to ensure health systems could maintain their resources to reduce the spread of the virus. Elective surgery or an elective procedure is scheduled in advance because it does not involve a medical emergency. Semi-elective surgery must be done to preserve the patient's life but does not need to be performed immediately.
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Researcher uses fruit for less toxic drug delivery
University of Louisville via Medical Xpress
University of Louisville researchers have found a less toxic way to deliver medicines by using the natural lipids in plants, particularly grapefruit and ginger. The resulting intellectual property portfolio consisting of 12 patent families, invented by Huang-Ge Zhang, Ph.D., of UofL's James Graham Brown Cancer Center and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, has been licensed to Boston-based Senda BioSciences, a Flagship Pioneering company. UofL's technology is part of Senda's efforts to develop novel drug delivery platforms to solve the challenges of transferring therapeutics across biological barriers and throughout the body.
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Women more likely to survive lung cancer after surgery
HealthDay News
Women have higher survival rates after lung cancer surgery than men, according to a new study.
Previous research on sex differences in survival after lung cancer treatment has yielded conflicting results, so researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden decided to study the association between gender and survival after lung cancer surgery.
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New insights into how the CRISPR immune system evolved
Aarhus University via EurekAlert!
With new insights into how the genetic tool CRISPR — which allows direct editing of our genes — evolved and adapted, we are now one step closer to understanding the basis of the constant struggle for survival that takes place in nature. The results can be used in future biotechnologies.
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