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CDC chief overrules panel, OKs boosters for health care workers
September 24, 2021
Panelists “did not buy the need in occupational or institutional settings.”
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Remdesivir sharply cuts COVID hospitalization risk, Gilead says
September 23, 2021
An RCT evaluated the efficacy and safety of a 3-day course of intravenous remdesivir in an analysis of 562 nonhospitalized patients at high risk for disease progression.
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New COVID-19 strain has reached the U.S.
September 23, 2021
The CDC has not classified R.1 as a variant of concern yet but noted it has “several mutations of importance” and “demonstrates evidence of increasing virus transmissibility.”
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Mean leadership
September 23, 2021
Leadership requires the investment of deliberate practice, financial acumen, negotiation skills, and increased vulnerability.
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Cardiogenic shock teams again tied to lower mortality
September 23, 2021
New data suggest centers with a shock team had higher survival and lower resource use in the cardiac ICU.
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FDA OKs Pfizer COVID booster for 65 and over, those at high risk
September 23, 2021
Emerging evidence shows that booster doses of the Pfizer vaccine cause front-line immune defenders — called binding antibodies — to roughly triple soon after a person gets the third shot.
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Should hospitalists use albumin to treat non-SBP infections in patients with cirrhosis?
September 22, 2021
Study data suggest that albumin may be beneficial in improving renal and circulatory function.
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Nurses ‘at the breaking point,’ consider quitting due to COVID issues: Survey
September 21, 2021
“What we’re hearing from our nurses is really shocking.”
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Decline in child COVID may signal end of latest surge
September 21, 2021
United States saw fewer cases and fewer admissions among children, but also fewer vaccinations.
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Nurses ‘at the breaking point,’ consider quitting due to COVID issues: Survey
September 21, 2021
“Hospitals can have all the beds and all the rooms and all the equipment they want, but without nurses and others at the front lines to provide that essential care, none of it really matters.”
