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COVID-19 in a Correctional Facility Employee Following Multiple Brief Exposures to Persons with COVID-19 - Vermont, July-August 2020.
Abstract On August 11, 2020, a confirmed case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in a male correctional facility employee (correctional officer) aged 20 years was reported to the Vermont Department of Health (VDH). On July 28, the correctional officer had multiple brief encounters with six incarcerated or detained persons (IDPs)* while their SARS-CoV-2 test results were pending. The six asymptomatic IDPs arrived from an out-of-state correctional facility on July 28 and were housed in a quarantine unit. In accordance with Vermont Department of Corrections (VDOC) policy for state prisons, nasopharyngeal swabs we...
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - October 30, 2020 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Pringle JC, Leikauskas J, Ransom-Kelley S, Webster B, Santos S, Fox H, Marcoux S, Kelso P, Kwit N Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: research

COVID-19 Outbreak Among Employees at a Meat Processing Facility - South Dakota, March-April 2020.
Abstract On March 24, 2020, the South Dakota Department of Health (SDDOH) was notified of a case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in an employee at a meat processing facility (facility A) and initiated an investigation to isolate the employee and identify and quarantine contacts. On April 2, when 19 cases had been confirmed among facility A employees, enhanced testing for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was implemented, so that any employee with a COVID-19-compatible sign or symptom (e.g., fever, cough, or shortness of breath) could receive a test from a local health care facility. By April 11, 3...
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - August 6, 2020 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Steinberg J, Kennedy ED, Basler C, Grant MP, Jacobs JR, Ortbahn D, Osburn J, Saydah S, Tomasi S, Clayton JL Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: research

Coronavirus in England: half of those with symptoms not isolating
Scientists say failure to follow advice raises questions over test-and-trace policyCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOnly half of people who develop coronavirus symptoms self-isolate for at least a week, according to government science advisers, raising urgent questions about the success of the test, trace and isolate strategy needed to contain future outbreaks.In an April report to the government ’s Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (Sage), behavioural science experts said “rapid” research was needed on how best to get people to comply with self-isolation advice given that “only ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 29, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Ian Sample Tags: Coronavirus outbreak Infectious diseases Science UK news Health policy Source Type: news

How Remdesivir Moved From Back Shelf to Best Hope for Treating COVID-19
This study showed that a five-day regimen is as effective as 10 days–that’s important, doctors say, since it could mean shorter stays in the hospital, which could alleviate some of the burden on the health care system. “Of course we will have to wait for the final review of all the data, but it would be very nice to have an anti-viral that’s efficacious in this terrible illness,” says Dr. Aruna Subramanian, a clinical professor of medicine at Stanford and an investigator on the study. “At least we know that we can help patients with this, and that’s really the bottom line.” T...
Source: TIME: Health - May 21, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 feature Magazine Source Type: news

What to Know About Kawasaki Disease, the Pediatric Inflammatory Condition Possibly Linked to COVID-19
Six weeks ago, in the relatively early days of the U.S. COVID-19 outbreak, Dr. Veena Goel Jones, a pediatric hospitalist with Palo Alto Medical Foundation in California, treated a six-month-old baby girl for what she calls “classic Kawasaki disease.” The infant had fever, rash and swelling characteristic of the pediatric inflammatory condition. Jones, who is also an adjunct clinical assistant professor at the Stanford School of Medicine, and her team also tested the girl for COVID-19, mainly out of hospital protocol—”not necessarily because we felt very strongly like she must have the virus,” ...
Source: TIME: Health - May 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news

Timing of Community Mitigation and Changes in Reported COVID-19 and Community Mobility - Four U.S. Metropolitan Areas, February 26-April 1, 2020.
This report presents initial data from the metropolitan areas of San Francisco, California; Seattle, Washington; New Orleans, Louisiana; and New York City, New York* to describe the relationship between timing of public policy measures, community mobility (a proxy measure for social distancing), and temporal trends in reported coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases. Community mobility in all four locations declined from February 26, 2020 to April 1, 2020, decreasing with each policy issued and as case counts increased. This report suggests that public policy measures are an important tool to support social distancing an...
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - April 16, 2020 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Lasry A, Kidder D, Hast M, Poovey J, Sunshine G, Winglee K, Zviedrite N, Ahmed F, Ethier KA, CDC Public Health Law Program, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Louisiana Department of Health, Public Health – Seattle & King County, Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: research

I ’m a Doctor Recovering From COVID-19. I Can’t Get Over the Government’s Callousness for Human Life
Dr. Laura Mulvey, 33, practices emergency medicine at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. After spending six days receiving treatment in her own hospital, she is now recovering at home from what is presumed to be COVID-19, though her test was inconclusive. What follows is a lightly-edited transcript of her story as told to TIME. Early on, sometime in February, [COVID-19] was something that people were thinking about. And worried about. Certainly, the worries were not what they are now. But hospital-wise, we had a bit of an earlier jump on it, because we recognized that this was a potential threat. We’re ...
Source: TIME: Health - March 30, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dr. Laura Mulvey Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 UnitedWeRise20Disaster Source Type: news

UAB opening appointment-only COVID-19 testing site downtown
Local hospitals and the Jefferson County Department of Health have established an appointment-based community coronavirus testing site that will begin seeing patients by appointment only starting Monday. The site is sponsored by UAB Medicine and the JCDH. The testing site will be located at the corner of University Boulevard and 22nd Street South. The site is available to those who have symptoms of COVID-19 — cough, fever or shortness of breath — or believe they may have had contact with someone…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - March 23, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Tyler Patchen Source Type: news

Why Can ’t I Get Tested for Coronavirus?
As more cases of COVID-19 are reported around the world, medical advice about who should be tested for the coronavirus infection is constantly changing to reflect changing levels of risk for infection. Here’s how doctors are deciding who to test, and when. I have a fever and a cough. Can I get tested for COVID-19? Not necessarily. COVID-19 symptoms include fever, cough and difficulty breathing. But those are also symptoms of the seasonal flu, so doctors will first make sure you don’t have the flu or other common respiratory illnesses. Most hospitals and some urgent care centers can run a test for those and for ...
Source: TIME: Health - March 13, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Explainer Source Type: news

ADA releases coronavirus handout for dentists based on CDC guidelines
Dentists should follow standard precautions at all timesFebruary 24, 2020 By Mary Beth VersaciThe American Dental Association has released aninformational handout for dentists on the coronavirus disease, now named COVID-19.The handout covers strategies for helping prevent the transmission of suspected respiratory disease in the dental health care setting and answers frequently asked questions related to the virus, based onguidelines from theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention.Similar to patients with other flu-like illnesses, patients with COVID-19 have reported mild to severe symptoms such as fever, cough and ...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - March 9, 2020 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news

The Coronavirus-Infected Grand Princess Is in Port. But Passengers Are Still Stuck on Board
(OAKLAND, Calif.) — Thousands of passengers aboard a cruise ship struck by the novel coronavirus waited anxiously Tuesday for their chance to leave the vessel, even if it meant being shipped to military bases for weeks of quarantine. After days of being forced to idle off the Northern California coast, the Grand Princess docked Monday at the Port of Oakland with some 3,500 passengers and crew on board. “Everyone was hollering and clapping” as the giant vessel sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge and entered the harbor, passenger Karen Schwartz Dever said. About two dozen people who need acute medical care ...
Source: TIME: Health - March 9, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Olga R. Rodriguez and Daisy Nguyen / AP Tags: Uncategorized California COVID-19 onetime Travel Source Type: news

Here ’s How to Self-Quarantine If You Get Exposed to Coronavirus
As the new coronavirus COVID-19 continues to spread around the world, an increasing number of people have been told to self-quarantine. While some have tested positive for the virus, others have simply been exposed to it and have been advised to self-quarantine as a precaution. Not everyone, however, is taking self-quarantine seriously. Last Friday, a New Hampshire man who tested positive for the virus attended an event despite being told to self-quarantine, putting several people’s health at risk. Patients who have tested positive for coronavirus have reported flu-like symptoms including fever, a dry cough, and dif...
Source: TIME: Health - March 5, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mélissa Godin Tags: Uncategorized coronavirus COVID-19 Source Type: news

How to Manage Your Anxiety About Coronavirus
On Feb. 25, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) gave Americans some unsettling advice: prepare for coronavirus to disrupt your life. In light of the accelerated global spread of COVID-19, CDC officials called a U.S. domestic outbreak increasingly likely, and urged Americans to ready themselves for possibilities like school closures, remote working and self-quarantine. Those comments were a stark departure from the CDC’s earlier assurances that a worldwide COVID-19 outbreak, while serious, posed relatively little threat to the U.S., due to minimal domestic person-to-person transmission and preca...
Source: TIME: Health - February 27, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 UnitedWeRise20Disaster Source Type: news

The CDC Has Confirmed a 15th Case of COVID-19 in the U.S. Here ’s What to Know
The U.S. now has 15 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Thursday. The latest case is a patient at the JBSA-Lackland military base in San Antonio, Texas, where 91 evacuees from Wuhan, China—the epicenter of the outbreak—have been in mandatory quarantine since they left China for the U.S. on Feb. 6. This is the first person under quarantine at the base who has tested positive for the virus, the CDC said in a public statement Thursday. So far, cases have been diagnosed in California, Washington, Arizona, Illinois, Massachusetts, Wisconsin and now Texas. Glob...
Source: TIME: Health - February 14, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jasmine Aguilera Tags: Uncategorized 2019-nCoV COVID-19 onetime Source Type: news

U.S. Officials Have Confirmed at Least 29 Cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. After Cruise Ship Evacuees Return Home. Here ’s What to Know.
Fourteen of the more than 300 American evacuees flown out from a quarantined U.S. operated cruise ship in Japan back to the U.S. have tested positive for COVID-19, the U.S. Departments of State and Health and Human Services announced Monday. That brings the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S. to 29; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had announced that the U.S. already had 15 confirmed cases of COVID-19 last Thursday. U.S. authorities discovered 14 passengers from the Diamond Princess were infected with the virus after they had left the cruise ship but before planes took off; they were su...
Source: TIME: Health - February 14, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jasmine Aguilera, Madeleine Carlisle and Sanya Mansoor Tags: Uncategorized 2019-nCoV COVID-19 onetime Source Type: news