COVID-19: Caring for Patients and Communities
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates the COVID-19 vaccine saved more than 5,000 U.S. lives and prevented 13,000 intensive care unit admissions and 68,000 hospitalizations from Oct. 1, 2023 to April 21, 2024.
Dry hydrogen peroxide may reduce COVID-19 infection transmissions in long-term care facilities without requiring additional staff intervention, a study concludes.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the amount of acute respiratory illness causing people to seek health care remains high.
Community health workers played a critical role during the COVID-19 pandemic in Orange County, Calif., according to a study published in the June 2025 Social Science & Medicine ─ Qualitative Research in Health.
A Health and Human Services Department report describes how the COVID-19 pandemic led to a 15% increase in drug-resistant hospital-acquired infections and antimicrobial resistant-related deaths. Factors included severely sick patients who needed mechanical ventilation; long hospital stays and…
Hospitals with greater COVID-19 patient loads confronted higher adverse events for all patients, an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality study found.
Rates of falls, bloodstream infections from central line catheters, catheter-associated urinary tract infections, pressure ulcers and pneumonia associated with ventilator use increased significantly during the pandemic and have not yet returned to pre-pandemic levels, a study found.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reminding clinicians and other health care workers to take necessary steps to keep themselves and their patients’ safe during respiratory virus season.
A higher-quality nurse work environment was associated with a 20% lower COVID-19 mortality rate among socially vulnerable Medicare beneficiaries, according to a recent study published in INQUIRY.
Sepsis-related inpatient stays at U.S. hospitals rose from 1.8 million in 2016 to 2.5 million in 2021, with a faster rate of increase once COVID-19 emerged in 2020, according to an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality report submitted to Congress.