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Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending November 25, 2022.

As the festive holidays begin, even with vaccinations and boosters, COVID-19 still remains a concern for long COVID-19 and other severe long-term effects.

Hospitalized children may be scared and uncertain, and therapy animals can help ease their insecurities. But what is done to protect the humans—and the animals—from infectious diseases?

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending November 18, 2022.

Saskia v. Popescu, PhD, MPH, MA, CIC, covers updates on health care associated-infections, masking at schools, and Ebola in Uganda and Dengue in Arizona. Read on for all the details.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending October 14.

The additive effects of long COVID-19 with repeat infections, combined with the long-term persistence of long COVID-19 systems, does not bode well for the United States’ workforce. N95 masks, vaccines, boosters, and improvements in ventilation are keys to prevention.

During Sterile Processing Week, ICT® recognizes the job of sterile processing personnel as highly skilled labor in an uncomfortable work environment. It is also dangerous to those individuals who may pass through the room the sterile processing personnel are working in.

Winter is coming, which means influenza and COVID-19 rates are rising, but IPs have more issues like monkeypox and Ebola to contend with also.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending October 7.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending September 23.

Ambassador Deborah Birx, MD, an American diplomat and infectious disease expert, once again joins Infection Control Today®, this time to talk about President Biden’s recent comment that the pandemic is over, and what can be done to mitigate the circumstances.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending September 9.

Long-term care facilities were once normally happier places, but COVID-19 changed the individuals working and living there. PPEs, testing, overwork, underpayment, and too many isolations have chased health care workers away and forced the facilities' population to plummet. Can anything be done?

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending August 19.

Last week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention relaxed recommendations which neither control or prevent a rapidly evolving and disabling disease, COVID-19. However, we must maintain effective efforts to control spread of the virus.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending August 12.

Certain disinfecting cycles can be used to extend the frequency and use of single-use respirators, but how do they affect the respirator filtration efficiency?

In all areas, infection preventionists took on more responsibilities and expanded the ones they already had, including staff education and employee health.

Eradicating pathogens on both the floors throughout the hospital, especially patients’ rooms, and within the NICU isolettes is the focus of 2 posters presented at APIC 2022.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending May 27.

A comprehensive look at whether mask wearing is beneficial for both SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses spread by airborne particles and respiratory droplets.

A new comprehensive article lays out best practice guidelines for 14 areas of infection prevention and control.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending May 13.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending April 29.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending April 15.

However, a large-scale randomized controlled trial in health care is needed.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending April 15.

Despite some benefits, challenges continue with implemented mitigation strategies for children and IPs. 

Remembering the COVID-19 pandemic and supply chain issues, investigators study the efficacy of reusing N95 FFRs.