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Hospitals That Ditch Masks Risk Exposure

Bill of Health

Manta This month, New York became the latest to join the growing list of states that have ended their requirements for routine masking in hospitals and other healthcare settings. Ending routine masking in hospital settings is a dangerous move. It puts patients and staff at risk for infection, and its potential long-term effects.

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History Rhymes with the Psychedelic Boom

Bill of Health

What appears to be a radical, 180-degree shift in reputation, however, masks an underlying similarity: both of these mirror-image stories belong to the mythologies of the consumer culture, which attribute broad transformational power to individual acts of consumption. We are all familiar with the “wonder drug” story.

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Digital Vaccines – Can This AI Tool Save Us from Ourselves?

Healthcare IT Today

From vaccine supply chain logistics to hospital capacity management, many nations have failed to provide competent response measures that equitably protect their citizens and reduce the spread of infection, while low and middle-income countries (LMICs) are facing enormous challenges to do so.

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Americans’ Views on Food Have Been Re-Shaped by the Pandemic: Think Security, Immunity, and Sustainability

Health Populi

continue to immunize health citizens from contracting the coronavirus, millions of folks are looking forward to getting back inside restaurants to enjoy meals out, as well as un-masking when grocery shopping. As vaccinations jabbed into peoples’ arms in the U.S. But people in the U.S. But people in the U.S.

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The Ongoing Reality of COVID-19 – My Conversation with Dr. Michael Osterholm at SXSW

Health Populi

later, we face a New Reality that Dr. Michael Osterholm and I are brainstorming today at the 2021 South-by-Southwest Festival. One year and over 550,000 COVID-related deaths in the U.S. His latest Episode #47 session looked at “Preparing for Act 3” of COVID-19. and CEC guidelines for fully-vaccinated health citizens.

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Pandemic-era burnout: Telehealth managers get pushed to the max

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

This is the sixth article in Healthcare IT News ’ Burnout in the Age of COVID-19 feature story series, and it focuses on the kinds of stresses telehealth managers face, how telehealth technology hurts managers’ abilities to cope with those stressors and how telemedicine tech helps them manage stress. " Dr.

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U.S. Hospitals Will Lose $323 Billion in 2020 – Before Accounting for Growing COVID Cases

Health Populi

according to the American Hospital Association’s report, Hospitals and Health Systems Continue to Face Unprecedented Financial Challenges Due to COVID-19. What’s the worth of $323 billion? Hospitals racked up over $200 bn in losses between March and June 2020. declines in expected inpatient volume and 34.5%

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