by William Jester | Jan 30, 2022 | Community, Covid, News
The CDC upgraded its guidance acknowledging that cloth masks are not as effective as surgical and N95 masks to protect against COVID-19 as the highly contagious Omicron variant continues to drive a record-breaking number of cases across the country. Rutgers...
by William Jester | Jan 29, 2022 | Community, Covid, News
The COVID-19 patients continue to stream into Holy Name, just as they have for the past month. They’re not as sick on average as they were in earlier waves of the pandemic. But they keep coming, some struggling to breathe and further straining an already exhausted...
by William Jester | Jan 28, 2022 | Community, Covid, News
An unusual study of the COVID pandemic’s impact on the work and personal lives of an often-overlooked group of health care workers has yielded lessons about the stresses that drive them out of the workforce, their attitudes toward vaccination and testing, and the...
by Pamela Dahlen | Jan 28, 2022 | Community, Covid, News
Medical community weighs what ‘living with’ COVID-19 would mean Unlike the flu, COVID-19 is not currently considered endemic in the U.S., meaning a manageable disease that always causes a certain amount of sickness, perhaps spiking at times, and is confined to one or...
by Pamela Dahlen | Jan 26, 2022 | Community, Covid, News
Rising numbers of organ transplants, trauma cases, and elective surgeries postponed by the COVID-19 pandemic have caused an increase in the need for blood products. The Red Cross said in a recent statement that the dangerously low blood supply levels are posing a...
