Vaccination protects personnel at work and in the community, and reduces the risk of unintentionally bringing the disease to work and transmitting it to patients and peers, AHA said.
Their evidence-based verdict: healthcare institutions and facilities — including long-term care facilities — should require that their personnel be vaccinated as a condition of employment.
Trinity Health has more than 117,000 employees in 22 states. Employees at most locations will be required to submit proof of vaccination by Sept. 21, but some locations will set their own deadlines.
Workers who had more physical activity on their down time were less likely to report feelings of exhaustion, investigators say.
The CDC has relaxed rules for wearing respirators in healthcare settings, but a team of Harvard doctors is encouraging workers to keep an eye on local COVID-19 rates. The superior fit and filtration of an N95 mask can provide extra protection when local incidence climbs, they say.
Both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 among U.S. healthcare personnel, according to interim real-world data published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A new push to ensure that healthcare facilities stockpile single-use or reusable N95 respirators has arrived while some workers continue to lack access to the equipment and U.S. mask manufacturers can’t find enough buyers, investigators say.
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Nursing home care providers have the sad distinction of accounting for a large proportion of healthcare workers’ COVID deaths, according to new 2020 data that was not tracked by the U.S. government. Many of these deaths were preventable, investigators say.
The pandemic has trained a spotlight on numerous healthcare disparities faced by Black and brown long-term care residents. Monica Payne, a veteran clinical manager for Omnicare, says that reflecting on how everyday actions affect care and access to treatment can benefit everyone in the industry.
