The emerging information about COVID-19 and a political environment that has sown misinformation and rendered science partisan have added to the difficulting of testing for the disease.
Hospitals are worried staffing levels won’t be able to keep up with demand as doctors, nurses and specialists such as respiratory therapists become exhausted or, worse, infected and sick themselves.
As cases surge, the demand for hospital beds increases and the supply of qualified nurses shrinks which means that traveling nurses employed by agencies are now about to command top dollar.
Nov 30, 2020
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Anthony Fauci is director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases./National Institutes of Health
The nation's top infectious disease expert says he's reluctant to support a national mask mandate because that would mean that authorities would have to enforce it and that would be difficult to do.
Drawing a multiracial student body isn't enough: Medical schools need to change their curriculums to improve treatment of minorities and build an inclusive environment.
Many nursing homes are not using the on-site antigen tests the Trump administration has distributed even though they report test results in minutes because they are considered to be less reliable than tests sent to a lab.
Pfizer is expected to seek the release of its vaccine by the end of the month. Like most others, it will require two doses and injections must be given weeks apart, company protocols show.
Though the vaccine appears to offer a high level of protection, it's not clear how long immunity would last and whether the vaccine might cause any health problems. No serious side effects have been noted but it's early days yet.