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Peer support was valuable for health worker stress during COVID-19-- study

Thu, 2024-05-02 18:14 — mike kraft
Peer support valuable intervention for health worker stress during COVID-19, study shows With healthcare worker (HCW) burnout one of the most pressing issues facing US clinicians, a new study in JAMA Network Open indicates that Stress First Aid, a peer-to-peer support intervention, improved the well-being of HCWs compared with usual care during the COVID-19 pandemic. CIDRAP

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Medicare Advantages benefits may be cut for millions of Humana patients

Thu, 2024-05-02 11:25 — mike kraft
Millions of Americans may get their Medicare Advantage benefits cut Humana said it would be ending some plans and cutting benefits for patients in 2025. Newsweek
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Walmart to shut all health clinics in US over lack of profitability, others lose money

Tue, 2024-04-30 19:32 — mike kraft
Walmart to shut all health clinics in US over lack of profitability Walmart said on Tuesday it will close all 51 of its health clinics and shut its virtual health care operations, saying it could not see it as a sustainable business model to continue. Siddharth Cavale,Granth Vanaik Reuters

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Studies indicate COVID may have eroded doctors' belief that they are obligated to treat infectious patients

Fri, 2024-04-26 10:35 — mike kraft

 

COVID may have eroded doctors' belief that they are obligated to treat infectious patients A systematic review posted in Clinical Infectious Diseases reveals that, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many physicians felt less ethically obligated to provide care to infectious-disease patients if they fear contracting the disease. CIDRAP

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European experts call for global genetic warning system to combat the next pandemic and antimicrobial resistance

Fri, 2024-04-26 10:12 — mike kraft

Experts call for global genetic warning system to combat the next pandemic and antimicrobial resistance (medicalxpress.com)

 

...genomic surveillance could do much more to reduce the toll of disease and death worldwide than just protect us from COVID-19. Writing in Frontiers in Science, an international collective of clinical and public health microbiologists from the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) calls for investment in technology, capacity, expertise, and collaboration to put genomic surveillance of pathogens at the forefront of future pandemic preparedness.

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Biden Administration Sets Higher Staffing Mandates, But Most Nursing Homes Don’t Meet Them

Tue, 2024-04-23 10:38 — mike kraft
Biden Administration Sets Higher Staffing Mandates. Most Nursing Homes Don’t Meet Them. - KFF Health News The staffing regulation was disparaged by the industry as unattainable. Patient advocates say it doesn’t go far enough. Labor unions welcomed the requirement. khnerich KFF Health News

The Biden administration finalized nursing home staffing rules Monday that will require thousands of them to hire more nurses and aides — while giving them years to do so.

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COVID-19 caused 21% excess of respiratory infections last winter--German study

Wed, 2024-04-17 17:37 — mike kraft
COVID-19 caused 21% excess of respiratory infections last winter, analysis finds Adults aged 30 to 39 years had the highest cumulative incidence, with 208 infections per 100 people. CIDRAP

A new study based on German data shows that SARS-CoV-2 caused a 21% excess of acute respiratory infections (ARIs) during the winter of 2022-23. The study was published this week in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases and suggests COVID-19 will add a significant burden during cold and flu seasons. 

 

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Many healthcare workers unsure about COVID vaccine boosters for themselves, kids --survey

Tue, 2024-04-16 09:54 — mike kraft
Many healthcare workers unsure about COVID vaccine boosters for themselves, kids A survey of more than 4,100 healthcare personnel (HCP) at a New York healthcare system from 2021 to 2022 reveals that 17% were hesitant to receive the recommended COVID-19 vaccine booster, and 33% were unsure about vaccinating their children.  CIDRAP

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Many of the HCP polled held unsubstantiated beliefs not only about COVID vaccines but also childhood vaccines.

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Minority healthcare workers experienced COVID testing delays in first 2 years of pandemic --study

Fri, 2024-04-12 10:35 — mike kraft
Minority healthcare workers experienced COVID testing delays in first 2 years of pandemic Black and non-Hispanic healthcare professionals (HCPs) of other races and those without graduate degrees were more likely than their White peers and clinical HCPs with graduate degrees to experience delayed COVID-19 testing in the first 2 years of the pandemic, finds a multicenter, test-negative case-control study. CIDRAP

 

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Opinion: Steps to rebuild trust in public health

Thu, 2024-04-11 10:25 — mike kraft
To rebuild trust in public health: Better communication, fewer mandates, and small wins Rebuilding trust in the CDC won't be quick or easy — especially in a divisive political season — but that doesn't make it any less important. Patrick Skerrett STAT

by Tom Frieden, former head of CDC

... In many countries — notably the United States — the pandemic dissolved trust between parts of the community and the public health system. How can that trust be restored? In a word: gradually. Trust is built in drops and lost in buckets.

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