A patient arriving at a hospital in Manaus, Brazil, on Thursday. Credit...Michael Dantas/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
The more contagious coronavirus variant discovered in Britain has now been detected in more than 50 countries, including Argentina on Saturday, and is believed to be driving surges in at least two.
But how widely that version of the...
Expert insights on how the industry should evolve in response to COVID-19
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A male nurse helping a man using a walker walk down a nursing home hallway
It's complicated. This phrase has become the default and arguably lazy response to many 21st-century challenges. But when...
Just as predicted before the rollout began, vaccine hesitancy among nursing home workers stands as a serious barrier to widespread acceptance in long-term care — and, in turn, fully fostering group immunity among the most vulnerable.
Battered by COVID-19 and unwilling to trust the institutions that oversaw the deaths of their patients and colleagues, a significant percentage of frontline caregivers have said no to the coronavirus...
Problem Solvers Caucus co-chairs Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., at podium, and Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., right, speak to the media with members of their caucus about the expected passage of the emergency COVID-19 relief bill, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, on…
The U.S. Congress has passed a massive year-end bill that includes a $900 billion coronavirus aid package and $1.4 trillion...
Summit County nursing homes should consider working with the community to improve the work culture of their caregivers, providing residents with technology and hiring immigrants and refugees to address staffing shortages.
These are among the recommendations included in a final report issued Thursday by the Summit County Nursing Homes and Facilities Task Force, a group that's been examining the condition of long-term...
Millions of health care workers are slated to receive the first batch of potentially lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines by the end of this month. But not all of them want to be first in line .
Only one-third of a panel of 13,000 nurses said they would voluntarily take a vaccine; another third said they wouldn’t and the rest said they were unsure, according to a late October survey by the American Nurses Association....
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- At the end of a year when medical workers have braved exposure to the coronavirus to provide lifesaving care, Americans have become more likely to laud the honesty and ethics of nurses, medical doctors and pharmacists. Still, nurses remain the undisputed leader, as they have been for nearly two decades.
Nurses earn a record 89% very high/high score for their honesty and ethics this year, four percentage...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Keeping the most vulnerable from the coronavirus means fighting another kind of sickness: loneliness. Restrictions make Christmas especially challenging for family members in nursing and senior living homes.
CBS 2’s Marissa Parra found some new ideas that have tails wagging.
Nine months in to the COVID-19 pandemic, most are familiar with the capabilities devices have to keep people from feeling lonely...
A new music video from the duo Brown & Gray pays tribute to nurses during the coronavirus pandemic.
The song, ' You Didn't Have To ,' spotlights all the selfless ways in which nurses help their patients and thanks them for their hard work.
The subject is particularly near and dear to singer Sam Gray's heart: His own mother is a retired nurse who spent decades helping others.
In the lyrics, Sam and his...
The vaccines are coming. Now, how many Americans will actually get them?
It's a looming question, perhaps the most important one as the coronavirus continues to surge in the U.S. Medical experts say vaccine-induced herd immunity — when enough people are immune that the virus will find it difficult to spread — is the best way to end the pandemic.
Overall, 60% of Americans say they would definitely or...
New research shows that July may have been the deadliest month for young adults in modern American history.
By Jeremy Samuel Faust, Harlan M. Krumholz and Rochelle P. Walensky
Dr. Faust is a doctor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Krumholz is a professor of medicine at Yale. Dr. Walensky, chief of the division of infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital,...
More than 270,000 health-care workers contracted COVID-19 and 915 have died as of mid-December, according to the CDC
Daniel McCarthy watched a Queens, N.Y. nurse’s televised COVID-19 vaccination Monday to become the first New Yorker with the vaccine and among the earliest ranks with the shot.
One emotion welled inside McCarthy: Relief.
“The vaccine sends the message we are gaining control...