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Perhaps nothing brought our world together in a more joyful way than hearing cities across the planet shout, bang pots and pans, and honk horns to...
Posts by Erica Mitchell:
Imagine you are a physician doing rounds in a hospital. You and a colleague walk into the room of a patient infected with MRSA. You are careful to...
Two important news articles this week took a long look at nursing homes. One examined the deadly impact of the pandemic on vulnerable nursing home...
When the cases of COVID-19 started to explode in the spring of 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) suspended reporting of...
Imagine a wandering nomadic tribe, toiling by day to find enough food to survive, sleeping only in short bursts in attempts to avoid predators. One...
As weather in the Northern Hemisphere gets cooler, our flu season begins. While social distancing and mask-wearing has kept the flu season at reduced...
There are may different pathogens that cause HAIs. Researchers have studied which of these infectious agents tend to cause infections, how those...
Over the past week, firefighters have been working to control record setting fires throughout California. These are lethal fires, consuming entire...
Lately, conversations about herd immunity and COVID-19 have been taking place around TV news desks and family dining room tables: Could herd immunity...
Today's post wraps up the usual suspects when it comes to pathogens contributing to hospital acquired infection. These pathogens, while less...
Regulations help make sure that people and companies behave properly, especially when it comes to health and safety. The Environmental Protection...
A major part of controlling an outbreak is contact tracing - tracing back all the contacts an infected person had while contagious and having those...