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A Hundred Years Apart: NYC During the 1918 Flu and 2020 COVID Pandemics (Part 2)

You'll Never Look At A Bedrail The Same Way Again.

A Hundred Years Apart: NYC During the 1918 Flu and 2020 COVID Pandemics

Hospital Surfaces: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

The Future of Nursing Homes: The Impact of COVID-19 and Beyond

Last week, we began our comparison of how New York City responded to a global pandemic a century apart. This week, we continue the comparison, this...

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...

In November of 1918, a New York City subway car crashed in Flatbush, Brooklyn, killing 100 passengers and injuring 250 others. Photos of the wreckage...

Hospitals and other healthcare facilities face a difficult quandary when it comes to selecting environmental surfaces to accommodate patients, guests...

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...

We experience the ickiness and inconvenience of biofilms every day. From slow drains to tooth plaque, biofilms surround us because bacteria surround...

In last week's post, we examined the three things required for bacteria to form a biofilm: Moisture, nutrients, and a surface. Once these biofilms...

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...

In today's intense search for products that can help control the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19, the need for testing virucidal efficacy...

One of the fastest-growing research sectors is the investigation of the human microbiome. We read articles about using the microbiome to keep us...

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...

Health.Care | An Educational Blog

A Hundred Years Apart: NYC During the 1918 Flu and 2020 COVID Pandemics (Part 2)

You'll Never Look At A Bedrail The Same Way Again.

A Hundred Years Apart: NYC During the 1918 Flu and 2020 COVID Pandemics

Hospital Surfaces: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

The Future of Nursing Homes: The Impact of COVID-19 and Beyond

A Hundred Years Apart: NYC During the 1918 Flu and 2020 COVID Pandemics (Part 2)

You'll Never Look At A Bedrail The Same Way Again.

A Hundred Years Apart: NYC During the 1918 Flu and 2020 COVID Pandemics

Hospital Surfaces: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

The Future of Nursing Homes: The Impact of COVID-19 and Beyond

The Horrors of Biofilms: Like Jason, They Keep Coming Back

Attack of the Killer Slime: It's not a B-Movie, It's a Biofilm

HAIs In The Time of COVID-19

Bacteria's 3 Real Estate Requirements (and only one of them is LOCATION)

How Do You Test Products for Virucidal Efficacy?

What is the Microbiome?

3 Ways to Get Ready for the "Twindemic": Flu & COVID-19