Infection Control Today
Infection Control Today

MARCH 10, 2020

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Infection Preventionist Methods Must Evolve to Face Evolving COVID-19 Threat

Infection preventionists need to spend more time with providers and healthcare workers to ensure they understand the new changes and what they mean for workflow or processes.

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PPE Shortages Hamper COVID-19 Containment, Endanger Healthcare Workers

PPE supplies need to be increased globally by 40% to meet the demand being driven by COVID-19. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, the director-general of the World Health Organization: "We can’t stop COVID-19 without protecting our health workers."

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A Conversation With Judd Hollander, MD: How Telehealth Can Address the COVID-19 Outbreak

"The approach to COVID-19 via telemedicine begins with screening the patient for risk of COVID-19 using the latest CDC recommendations. Then the approach is much like that with influenza, except for an increased emphasis on social distancing."

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Amazon Accused of Price Gouging Hand Sanitizers Amid COVID-19 Spread

Third-party sellers are selling an eight-ounce bottle of Purell for around $40, over ten times the typical price. A case of 12 one-ounce bottles of Purell was being sold for $3,892.84, which equals just over $324 per ounce.

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Whistleblower: Personal Protective Equipment Training Not Given to HHS Coronavirus Responders

The complaint alleges that HHS workers were sent to air force bases from January 28 to 31 and again from February 2 to 7 to meet with American evacuees from Wuhan, China, where COVID-19 first originated. The whistleblower charges that HHS broke protocol and ignored the whistleblower’s concerns about having the workers exposed to the coronavirus.

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MRSA Bacteremia and Injection Drug Use: Insight From Tennessee

Bloodstream infections are ones that bring a chill to most working in healthcare and infection prevention. Such infections can be deadly and are often followed by infection prevention program surveillance efforts to keep an eye out for healthcare-associated cases.

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