Late-stage COVID-19 vaccine trials to start this summer
Editor's Note The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci says COVID-19 vaccine candidates will start moving into late-stage clinical trials by the end of July, continuing through the summer and into fall, the July 2 Reuters reports. The director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr…
Morning Conversations with OR Manager
Welcome to our first Morning Conversations! We sat down with Jake Poore, President & Chief Experience Officer at Integrated Loyalty Systems. Jake is the Opening Keynoter at the OR Manager Conference, ASC Leader Summit and PACU Manager Summit this fall in Las Vegas at the Mirage.
Cause of COVID-19 blood clotting identified
Editor's Note In this study, Yale researchers found that endotheliopathy and platelet activation might be important factors in the pathophysiology of COVID-19-associated coagulopathy. The researchers examined the blood of 68 COVID-19 patients, 48 of them in ICU and 20 receiving care in a hospital unit, along with 13 disease free…
AHA: COVID-19 to cost hospitals $323 billion
Editor's Note The American Hospital Association on June 30 released a report on the financial strain facing hospitals and health systems because of COVID-19, with total losses expected to be at least $323 billion in 2020. The total included $120.5 billion in financial losses that hospitals are predicted to see…
COVID-19 causes hyperactivity in blood platelets
Editor's Note COVID-19 is associated with substantial alterations in the platelet transcriptome and proteome, and greater platelet hyper-reactivity, this study finds. Researchers examined 41 hospitalized COVID-19 patients at the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City. Of these, 17 were in the ICU and nine were on ventilators. Blood…
COVID-19 could accelerate adoption of point-of-care ultrasound use by nonradiologists
Editor's Note The June 29 AuntMinnie reports on a panel presentation at the virtual annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine that found the adoption of point-of-care ultrasound by nonradiologists may be accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Though the American College of Radiology recommended not using CT…
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CDC weekly update shows decline in COVID-19 mortality
Editor's Note The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on June 26 posted key updates for week 25, of the COVID-19 epidemic, ending June 20. The percentage of US deaths attributed to flu, pneumonia, or COVID-19 decreased for the ninth consecutive week to 6.9%, from 9.5% a week earlier.…
Declines in patient visits during COVID-19 projected to cost primary care $15 B
Editor's Note Harvard Medical School researchers are projecting that primary care practices will lose more than $15 billion by the end of the year. Because of the steep decline in office visits and fee for service payments from March to May, primary care practices are expected to lose more than…