LocalHealthGuide - Part 125

June 8, 2020 Coronavirus / Occupational Heatlh

As Businesses Reopen, Workplace Testing Is the ‘Wild West’

If a business chooses to provide testing that produces an inaccurate result, it will be on the hook for the consequences, experts say.

Lieutenant (junior grade) Natasha McClinton, a surgical nurse, prepares a patient for a procedure in the intensive care unit aboard the U.S. the hospital ship USNS Comfort. The ship cares for critical and non critical patients without regard to their COVID-19 status. Comfort is working with Javits New York Medical Station as an integrated system to relieve the New York City medical system, in support of U.S. Northern Command's Defense Support of Civil Authorities as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rapid Changes To Health System Spurred By COVID Might Be Here To Stay

COVID-19 has done what no president or reformer could have: It forced sudden major changes to the nation’s health system that are unlikely to be reversed.

June 8, 2020 Coronavirus / Healthcare Providers

600 U.S. health workers have died of COVID-19

Tally includes doctors, nurses and paramedics, as well as support staff such as hospital janitors, administrators and nursing home workers.

June 7, 2020 Coronavirus / Public Health

Contact tracing: what is it, how does it work?

Contact tracing is how public health workers identify people who may have COVID-19 and not know it and help them avoid spreading it to others.

June 5, 2020 Coronavirus / Drugs / Vaccines

Coronavirus: what if the drugs don’t work?

We have to steel ourselves for the possibility that no safe and effective vaccine or treatment will emerge and we may have to learn to live with COVID-19.

June 5, 2020 Coronavirus / Lungs

Tear-Gassing Protesters During An Infectious Outbreak ‘A Recipe For Disaster’

The chemical irritants in tear gas can promote the spread the coronavirus and increase the severity of COVID-19, experts warn.

Research shows that even mild COVID-19 can lead to the equivalent of seven years of brain aging.

June 2, 2020 Brain and Nervous System / Pain Medicine

Cluster headache: More than ‘just a headache’

Cluster headache can be so excruciating it is known as a “suicide headache” because many patients have suicidal thoughts during attacks.

3D medical animation coronavirus structure

June 2, 2020 Coronavirus / Health Policy

How leadership in various countries has affected COVID-19 response effectiveness

Reliance on science and centralized messaging helped the response,. Confused, mixed messages, coupled with distrust of scientific experts, let the virus spread.

June 2, 2020 Biotechnology / Coronavirus / Drugs / Research / Vaccines

The ABCs of drug trials

From the research lab to your doctor’s office – here’s what happens in phase 1, 2, 3 drug trials

June 2, 2020 Coronavirus / Minorities / Public Health

Raising a diverse army to track COVID-19

Health departments across the U.S. are working to create diverse teams of contact tracers to control the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

May 29, 2020 Coronavirus / Public Health

How does contact tracing work?

What happens after the diagnosis is crucial for changing the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.

May 29, 2020 Coronavirus / Fitness

State campgrounds in 22 counties to reopen June 1

Counties reopening for camping are all actively in Phase 2 of Gov. Inslee’s ‘Safe Start’ plan and have also been approved for camping by county officials.

May 27, 2020 Child Health / Coronavirus / Parenting

What Parents Should Know About Coronavirus as Kids Return to Babysitters, Day Cares and Camps

ProPublica scoured the latest research and talked with infectious disease and public health experts to help sort through the issues parents face in the pandemic

May 27, 2020 Coronavirus / Public Health

New dashboard provides updates on COVID-19 activity in King County

In a Q&A, Dr. Jeff Duchin, Health Officer for Public Health – Seattle & King County explains what the dashboard’s indicators mean.