#CDC will fail again: HICPAC advises the CDC on guidelines for infection control in HC settings -finalizing plan for the CDC in Nov -revisions would water down infection control protections, esp. for aerosol transmission & multidrug-resistant organisms *worrisome: conclusion: plain surgical masks = to N95s & provide adequate protection to #HCW /patients🚨 -abundant evidence to the contrary.
>900 experts: letter to the new CDC Dir: new draft guidelines weaken protections-. https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2023/08/21/cdc-poised-to-weaken-masking-infection-control/?sh=7c3493632517

If you've had medical tests done outside of a hospital in #Canada, you're probably part of this class-action suit against LifeLabs, for inadequate protection of private medial information, which was stolen.

One option here is to opt-out of this settlement and seek a better settlement on your own or with another class, probably a tough slog though.

#cdnpoli #HCW #MedMastodon ##infosec #data #hacker

https://lifelabssettlement.kpmg.ca/ https://mastodon.social/@johnefrancis/110871204240975965

Can you believe the irony? 💔 Just as #AI & large language models stand poised to lighten the load for #HCW, we risk losing more of us to a collapsing system & workforce burnout. 🆘

Time is running out ⏳ #Burnout #HealthIT #MedTwitter #TechForGood

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/study-notes-high-rate-covid-infected-healthcare-workers-still-caring-patients “Of the 127 HCWs with #presenteeism, 66 (26% of 255 symptomatic #HCW) worked at least part of a day and then returned to work for second and/or additional days with #COVID19 symptoms

HCWs cited a high #workload #burden for coworkers and personal #responsibility as the main reasons for continuing to work while sick,”

Shimbashi et al, 2023: Consistent N95 use during aerosol-generating procedures carried a 70% reduction in #COVID19 risk in #HCW, whereas inconsistent use had no significant impact. #Surgical mask use had no effect, even when consistently worn. #baggyblues
https://www.reddit.com/r/COVIDZero/comments/12g108z/shimbashi_et_al_2023_consistent_n95_use_during/

An important public intervention by #JeremyFarrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust and designated Chief Scientist of the #WHO.

"The resilience of #healthcare workers, broadly defined from ambulance drivers to nurses to doctors, to care workers in social care, etc --- they’re shattered. They are absolutely shattered."

"If you stretch people beyond their resilience they won’t be there when you need them."

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/feb/20/health-workers-shattered-says-jeremy-farrar-as-more-nhs-strikes-loom

#NHS #HCW

This is so disgusting!!

“We’d put calls out for extra help and many responses we'd get told us they couldn’t because of current or prior agreements with their employer,”

"...even physicians who’d recently left their jobs couldn’t answer calls for extra help... Several employers went out of their way to enforce noncompetes against health workers who tried to do just that."

#Covid #HCW #burnout #Legal

How Noncompete Agreements Hamstrung America’s Pandemic Response

https://prospect.org/health/02-15-2023-doctors-pandemic-noncompete-hospitals/

Interessant: BCG Impfstoff scheint unspezifische Nebenwirkung zu haben, die die Fehlzeiten von #HCW während #Covid19 reduziert https://ichgcp.net/de/clinical-trials-registry/NCT04373291

It's too conspiracy-like to say that they're trying to kill us all...right?

“#COVID testing for HCW IS NOT RECOMMENDED"

“It is important to remember that the majority of health care workers..."

HEALTH CARE WORKERS!!!

"...with respiratory symptoms do NOT need to test for COVID-19, and can return to work..."

TO... YOU KNOW... CARE FOR THE REST OF US!!!

"...when their fever is resolved and they feel well enough to work,” reads the memo.

#CovidIsNotOver #HCW
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-health-care-workers-on-vancouver-island-advised-not-to-test-themselves/

Excited to share that we have released a #Free version of @CareAlign for any person/team to use for HIPAA compliant, shared multidisciplinary tasking. Our goal is to empower #HCW so they can save time & provide better care

#ItTakesAVillage

Http://carealign.ai/pricing (choose the free one!)

So... we ordered a salad during Paris Fashion Week and this is what we got 😮
Can you believe it?
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vegan-clicks.com
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#hautecoutureweek #hcw #ss23 #ParisFashionWeek #Paris #fashionista #fashionvictim #trending #veganuary #VeganPhotographer #FoodPhotographer #bethechange #govegan #food #foodtrends #vegan #plantbased

[Research letter] Dörr et al, 2022: Among 2919 Swiss #HCW, #SARSCoV2 positivity was 21% for staff who used only #respirators and 35% for those using surgical #masks and/or a mix of both. Respirators reduced odds of #COVID19 by 44% in multivariate analysis.
https://www.reddit.com/r/COVIDZero/comments/10hidnr/research_letter_d%C3%B6rr_et_al_2022_among_2919_swiss/

@RebeccaPRN @costrike @gregggonsalves Cue thousands of #HCW and #nurse retirements.

If any #nurses #HCW who were (unfortunately) roped into Loeb et al, 2022 are following me, David Fisman and Joe Vipond would like to interview you in confidence. Not just limited to #Ontario #Canada. https://twitter.com/DFisman/status/1614009291975036929

Canada, USA, Australia and UK. Where else does this apply? #HCW #NHSCrisis #COVIDIsAirborne

RT @NeejaB@twitter.com

And worst of all. We have normalized bad patient care outcomes as collateral damage, all so that it can all "look like everything is okay."

It's not okay. And we are not okay.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/NeejaB/status/1613386255886356480

Physicians, nurses #HCW seem to have especially close relationships with dogs. Please let me know if you agree, & if so why. Please R/T. Writing article to help cope w/loss of Moxie on 12/3 #dogsofmedtwitter .@GIMaPreceptor@twitter.com .@CchristmColleen@twitter.com .@dhpomerantz@twitter.com .@DrMamaKai@twitter.com .@EricLast3@twitter.com

RT @alikhan28@twitter.com

#physicianburnout #nurse + #hcw #burnout is not solved by yoga/gift cards.

Meaning, purpose, structural change + demonstrated community impact - that's ⁦the ⁦@OakStreetHealth@twitter.com⁩ wellness thesis, w the indomitable ⁦@DebEdberg@twitter.com⁩ at the helm! 👏🏽 https://investors.oakstreethealth.com/news/news-details/2023/Oak-Street-Health-Appoints-First-Chief-Wellness-Officer/default.aspx

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/alikhan28/status/1611362470563831808

@Tnicholsmd After all that #doctors, #nurses, and #HCW have been through with the #pandemic, the “non-profit” #capitalist #HealthcareCorporations keep squeezing harder. They are bloated with money for shiny new equipment and buildings that only people who can pay out of pocket can afford to use. #Uninsured, under insured, #poor #patients are SOL. So are providers who get pens, pizza parties, and t-shirts instead of #benefits and #CompetitivePay.

#China, #COVID19, an #HCW spoke: ''This wave of infections is coming fiercely, and I think the cold air is the biggest cause. At the beginning, the critically ill patients in our hospital still had ventilators, but there were not enough ventilators for two days, and the hospital was actively purchasing them.'', full at SINA: https://news.sina.com.cn/c/2022-12-21/doc-imxxmwvs4152099.shtml

#Arbeitschutzverordung #sarscov2 prevention ab 01.10.2022 gültig deutschlandweit

https://t.co/IpDmu1cfuK

22.12.2022 erweitert #FPP2 Hygiene in #medizinischen Einrichtungen

#RKI

https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/erweiterte_Hygiene.html?nn=2386228

Immernoch wischi waschi 1,5 m & nur eine Empfehlung, aber immerhin steht das jetzt mal drin!

This are 2 #german links you can translate with google/ #kn95 recommendation for all #hcw! Actualisation just published on rki website!

Its not #standard & many dont know, yet
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