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Practice Management
Pandemic innovations that will outlast COVID
Hospitalists discuss process changes implemented during the pandemic that will likely survive it.
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Regeneron’s antibody drug shows protection against COVID-19 for up to 8 months
Such immunity is particularly important for immunocompromised people and those not responding to vaccines.
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Unvaccinated people 20 times more likely to die from COVID: Texas study
“The COVID-19 vaccines are doing an excellent job of protecting people from getting sick and from dying from COVID-19.”
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Children and COVID: New cases up again after dropping for 8 weeks
Less than a week after vaccine approval, initiation in those aged 5-11 years already outpaced the older children.
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Severe COVID two times higher for cancer patients
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New transmission information should motivate hospitals to reexamine aerosol procedures, researchers say
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Feds launch COVID-19 worker vaccine mandates
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Racial bias in pulse oximetry results confirmed
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Rural hospitalists confront COVID-19
Hospital medicine continues to extend into rural communities and small rural hospitals.
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Droperidol/midazolam combo curbs agitation in ED patients
A combination of haloperidol and lorazepam has been widely used to curb agitation in these patients, but droperidol and midazolam could be more...