Mask Respirator

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending May 27.

A comprehensive look at whether mask wearing is beneficial for both SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses spread by airborne particles and respiratory droplets.

A new comprehensive article lays out best practice guidelines for 14 areas of infection prevention and control.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending May 13.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending April 29.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending April 15.

However, a large-scale randomized controlled trial in health care is needed.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending April 15.

Despite some benefits, challenges continue with implemented mitigation strategies for children and IPs. 

Remembering the COVID-19 pandemic and supply chain issues, investigators study the efficacy of reusing N95 FFRs.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending March 25.

The hemodialysis setting presents a challenge for environmental cleaning and disinfection because of the demand for rapid turnover of stations.

Other nations, such as Sweden and Australia, outperformed the US metrics.

The FDA approved the Moderna vaccine as a 2-dose primary series for persons 18 years of age and older earlier this year.

Summary: Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending March 18.

Multiple studies and reports show that masks in schools are effective, safe, and necessary because COVID-19 is not going away.

The mandate was set to expire on March 18, 2022 and will cover the spring break season.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending March 11.

A comprehensive blueprint on how to be better prepared for the future as COVID-19 becomes endemic and the world faces future pandemics.

Key recommendations in the report include normalizing mask wearing and avoiding the supply chain failures.

A new study supports the conclusion that the “brain fog” reported by many who have recovered from mild COVID-19 infection is real and has an anatomical basis.

The benefits of a systematic, multi-layered approach utilizing various methods to prevent and mitigate the spread of COVID-19 to keep children in school.

A public/private enterprise taps into the entrepreneurial urge that will hopefully help the United States avoid the disastrous shortages of personal protective equipment that deviled the health care system in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

ICU nurses, more than other clinicians, because they have the most interaction with patients. Non-clinical workers because they may not be knowledgeable enough about mitigation methods, a study states.

Reinfections among study participants most likely occurred outside the hospital setting where workers might let their guard down and not practice nonpharmaceutical mitigation efforts against SARS-CoV-2.