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2024-Week 28 | Infection Control, Emergency Management, Safety, and General Thoughts

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This week will be a little bit different. This is an open letter to hospital and clinic administrators, as well as any healthcare organization. Feel free to share widely, particularly to any administrators you may know. The US is starting the next pandemic wave. Most of the population has not received boosters in the past four months and are not taking mitigation measures. Data from other countries suggests that this will be a challenging wave, particularly as school starts which is a known source of community spread. Globally, these new variants have led to the cancellation of elective surgeries due to the infected patient volumes as well as ER diversions and patients held in the ER for days with no beds available on nursing units. Wastewater COVID concentrations in the US are at the highest they have been during this time of year since the start of the pandemic. Both COVID ED and outpatient visits are climbing across the US. Most of the population thinks of COVID as a respiratory dis

2024-Week 28 | Infection Control, Emergency Management, Safety, and General Thoughts Infection Control, Emergency Management, Safety, and General Thoughts Focusing on COVID and H5N1 – Twitter: @maolesen Bluesky: @molesen.bsky.social Skip to content Home About INTL US Politics Sequelae Societal Myths Truths Lies IP ← 2024-Week 26-27 2024-Week 29 → 2024-Week 28 Posted on 07/21/2024 | 6 Comments This week will be a little bit different. This is an open letter to hospital and clinic administrators, as well as any healthcare organization. Feel free to share widely, particularly to a

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