Burnout, vaccine hesitancy, and plum traveling gigs are making it harder for hospitals to hire the nurses they need.
By Dylan Scott, VOX Covid-19 may no longer be surging widely across the United States, but America’s hospitals are still experiencing a staffing crisis that is putting critical care for patients in jeopardy. Hospitals all over the country are struggling, especially those in lower-population areas. A new survey of rural hospitals from the Chartis Group, […]
By Jeffrey Hirsch, The Conversation From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, labor unions have been among the strongest advocates for workplace safety measures. So it came as a surprise to many that some unions have resisted the imposition of vaccine mandates, ranging in sentiment from cautious to outright hostile. Their reactions can seem confusing […]
By Jim Reed, BBC The first pill designed to treat symptomatic Covid has been approved by the UK medicines regulator. The tablet – molnupiravir – will be given twice a day to vulnerable patients recently diagnosed with the disease. In clinical trials the pill, originally developed to treat flu, cut the risk of hospitalization or […]
Woman shopping on the high street in Liverpool while wearing a mask during the Covid Pandemic. – Liverpool, UK – July 9th 2021 (Shutterstock) By Andrew Romano, Yahoo News When it comes to COVID-19, what happens in the United Kingdom rarely stays in the United Kingdom — and that, in turn, rarely bodes well for […]
By Brian Owens, WebMD With the Delta variant of COVID-19 still raging in the United States and intensive care units in parts of the country filled with patients with the coronavirus, experts are voicing concern about the added risk of a difficult flu season. Two mathematical models are predicting a big rebound in the number […]
By Sir Ronald Sanders The public health and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has rightly focused the attention and resources of governments around the world on suppressing and containing it. The cause has been made more costly and more prolonged by those who resist inoculating themselves against a disease that has officially infected 227 […]
By Art Markman, The Conversation Culturally, this is an era in which people are held in high esteem when they stick with their beliefs and negatively labeled as “flip-floppers” or “wishy-washy” when they change what they think. While the courage of convictions can be a plus in situations where people are fighting for justice, sticking […]
By Brian Dean Abramson, The Conversation The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends COVID-19 vaccines for everyone aged 12 and up. And yet, 12- to 15-year olds are the least vaccinated age group in the country, with 1 in 3 having received one dose and just 1 in 4 being fully vaccinated – about […]
By Chris Sommerfeldt, NY Daily News Federal regulators haven’t authorized booster shots of the coronavirus vaccine yet — but Mayor de Blasio is already laying the groundwork for administering them. Hizzoner rolled out a booster shot plan Thursday that involves offering the additional doses at all vaccination sites in the city and extending opening hours […]
By Shuan Sim, Crain’s New York A federal judge on Tuesday granted a temporary restraining order against the state enforcing its vaccine mandate on health care workers. The state Department of Health on Aug. 26 required all health care workers to have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine by Sept. 27, with […]
