The CDC released new guidance on April 8, 2020 regarding safety practices for critical infrastructure workers who may have had exposure to a person with suspected or confirmed COVID-19. Unlike the old guidance which suggested that workers stay home forRead More
Interim Guidance for Implementing Safety Practices for Critical Infrastructure Workers Who May Have Had Exposure to a Person with Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19. The federal government has released new guidelines for when people in critical infrastructure roles can return toRead More
This Health Affairs post urges that state Departments of Health to provide “consistent standardized public reporting on cumulative COVID-19 hospitalizations, cumulative COVID-19 patients admitted to the ICU, current COVID-19 patients hospitalized, and current COVID-19 patients in the ICU.” The authorsRead More
This op-ed in the New York Times by Dr. Aletha Maybank, Chief Health Equity Officer of the American Medical Association, urges ” laboratories, health institutions, state and local health departments and the Department of Health and Human Services to standardize,Read More
This post suggests that in order to improve care for pregnant and postpartum women in light of the COVID-19 Pandemic, state Medicaid programs should implement presumptive eligibility for pregnant women, increase the income limits for pregnancy-related Medicaid, expand Medicaid underRead More
Illinois public health officials released racial and ethnic demographic data about COVID-19 patients, which showed that of the confirmed cases in Illinois as of March 27, 2020, 39% were White, 28% were Black, 4% were Asian, and 7% were Latino.Read More
This article discusses how residents of long-term care (LTC) facilities are more susceptible to COVID-19 and thus suppression should focus on testing and infection control at LTC facilities, while also being mindful of a state’s need to inspect LTC facilitiesRead More
This newpaper article outlines the governor’s executive order that requires all hospitals in New York, both public and private, to allow pregnant people to have a partner in the labor and delivery room in compliance with the latest guidance from theRead More
This letter to the editor in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society describes ways Singapore has avoided nursing home transmission of COVID-19 including the restriction of visitors to all healthcare institutions, prescreening of visitors, and reduction in unnecessary transferRead More
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats released an expert consultation that notes that while specific research on COVID-19 is limited, results of available studies support the possibility thatRead More