Category: Coronavirus

On February 26, 2020, the first U.S. case of community acquired coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was confirmed in a patient hospitalized in Solano County, California (1). The patient was initially evaluated at hospital A on February 15; at that time, COVID-19 was not suspected, as the patient denied travel or contact with symptomatic persons…

More than 9,000 health care workers across the U.S. contracted COVID-19 as of last week and at least 27 died, according to a report released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

As of April 9, 2020, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had resulted in 1,521,252 cases and 92,798 deaths worldwide, including 459,165 cases and 16,570 deaths in the United States (1,2). Health care personnel (HCP) are essential workers defined as paid and unpaid persons serv- ing in health care settings who have the potential for direct or indirect exposure to patients or infectious materials (3)…

National health care registry to help prepare for future medical crisis The COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. has left nearly every American scrambling for a plan.   A national study …

As the number of coronavirus cases continues to climb in the United States and in Tennessee, with the volunteer state confirming a total of 4,138 cases as of Wednesday, drug trials have been launched across the country, all with the goal of discovering prevention and treatment methods for those infected with COVID-19…

Last week, Williamson Medical Center and Vanderbilt University Medical Center became the first medical centers in the state selected to participate in a new COVID-19 prevention drug trial, dubbed the HERO trial…

Both Vanderbilt Medical Center and Williamson Medical Center have joined the Healthcare Worker Exposure Response and Outcomes (HERO) clinical trial, a federally-supported research effort investigating the effectiveness of plaquenil hydroxychloroquine

As of this week, Williamson Medical Center employees can sign up for a clinical trial drug that could help their resistance to the coronavirus…

CNN — Wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) when caring for patients with Covid-19 isn’t enough to completely eliminate the threat from the virus for frontline workers, according to a new study from King’s College …