Video Series

Deborah Birx, MD, highlights concerns about the lack of data-driven action in the fight against COVID-19. She emphasizes the need for timely alerts and empowering communities to protect vulnerable individuals.

Deborah Birx, MD, discusses the significance of collaboration, innovation, data-driven decision-making, and community engagement in public health. Her insights underscore the need for trust-building and adaptability in pandemic response.

In this third installment of the interview, managers at Sage Memorial Hospital describe how the OhmniLab robots have become part of their team, complete with Navajo names.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the infection prevention field had to think outside the box they were used to. The Navajo Nation was no different. Outside their box, they found UV-C robots.

To control C auris, focus on using antibiotics and improving diagnostics. New treatments in development offer hope for better management. This is the fourth and final installment in CDC's interview with the ICT.

CDC warns about Candida auris spreading if health care workers don't take preventative measures in an interview with Infection Control Today.

To prevent the spread of C auris, the CDC recommends that IPs and environmental hygienists play a critical role. In this interview, the medical scientists clarify what specific actions they should take.

To ensure the accuracy of the information concerning Candida auris, Infection Control Today has spoken with 2 medical scientists from the CDC.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending April 30, 2023.

Welcome to the Inside Track with Infection Control Today video series, an ongoing series of informational and how-to videos on infection control and prevention topics. This video is about hand washing (soap and water) and hand rubbing (alcohol-based hand rub).

Doe Kley, MPH, RN, CIC, LTC-CIP, T-CHEST, continues her interview with ICT about why IPs' involvement with their facility's cleaning and disinfection programs is so critical.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending March 12, 2023.

Doe Kley, MPH, RN, CIC, LTC-CIP, T-CHEST, does a deep dive into what the key priorities infection preventionists and environmental hygienists should focus on in 2023. This is the first of 3 installments.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending February 3, 2023.

How can food service and health care workers prevent the spread of norovirus? Keeping employees at home, using the correct products the right way, and more.

Are norovirus cases going to skyrocket, or will the pandemic slowdown of this infectious disease continue?

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending January 6, 2023.

In this second installment of 3, Infection Control Today® continues a personal story of how sepsis can enter central lines and how it affects the entire family.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending December 24, 2022.

In this first installment of 3, Infection Control Today® presents a personal story of how sepsis can enter central lines, and how it affects the entire family.

Viruses and other contaminants affect the air quality in health care, businesses, and homes. Listen to ICT®’s discussion about what should be done, and how one company is tackling the issue.

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

With the debate swirling around the efficacy and safety of UV-C technology, an individual needs which generation the product is. Infection Control Today® continues its ongoing special reporting on UV-C technology.

Despite studies that show UV-C is effective and safe, some individuals still refuse to believe it, based on experience with or studies based on first generation UV-C technology.

Ambassador Deborah Birx, MD, believes not enough is doing to prepare for future pandemics. What are her recommendations? Find out in this final installment of her interview with Infection Control Today.

How much information should the public have about infectious diseases? Can the public handle the truth? If the correct information is not given out, will the public believe the medical leaders when another serious disease threatens the public’s health? Ambassador Deborah Birx, MD, continues her discussion with ICT.

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

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

The 50-year-old Association for Professionals and Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) gives many tools to aid infection preventionists at any stage of their career with education, networking, and an annual conference.

Investigators look for and find MRSA and C difficil widespread on floors, especially in patient rooms, and MRSA inside NICU isolette beds.