The CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee, ... Thousands of health care workers died during the Covid-19 pandemic and others have been disabled by long Covid.

The four-part course is specifically made for frontline health professionals working in assisted living communities throughout the United States. There are more than 30,500 assisted living ...

The findings were published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology and involved an observational cohort of all healthcare workers at the VA Boston Healthcare System who tested positive for ...

HICPAC, which advises the CDC and HHS on infection control practices, has faced an outcry from some healthcare workers and occupational health experts since the beginning of its guideline revision ...

Health system leaders should clarify to marketing and public relations teams that infection prevention standards are a priority message for 2024,” the author added. Consumers may care more about ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention no longer recommends universal masking in health care settings, unless the facilities are in areas of high COVID-19 transmission. The agency quietly i… ...

For example, committee member Dr. Erica Shenoy, the infection control director at Massachusetts General Hospital, wrote in May 2020, “We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities ...

Infection Control Society of Taiwan chairwoman Chen Yi-chun (陳宜君), who is also the director of National Taiwan University Hospital’s Division of Infectious Diseases, yesterday said the association ...

By phasing out a committee that was a cornerstone of infection prevention in the U.S., the Trump administration is ...

The Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) crafted national standards for hand-washing, mask-wearing and isolating sick patients that most U.S. hospitals follow.

Editor’s Note (10/24/24): A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spokesperson said in a press briefing today that a total of five additional health care workers in Missouri who developed ...