Personal Protective Equipment

Primary care practices are still experiencing significant strain amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to recent results from the COVID-19 Primary Care Survey.

The AMA recently launched the #MaskUp campaign to normalize mask wearing in the fight against COVID-19.

Under normal circumstances, most New Yorkers thrive on being at the epicenter of civilization and culture. COVID-19 has raised the question of what happens when that civilization and culture is taken away. As residents hide out, many of them in cramped homes and studio apartments, health care workers from the biggest city in the world face challenges they have never had to face before.

Nearly half of the primary care physicians who responded to a Primary Care Collaborative, Larry A. Green Center and 3rd Conversation weekly survey “continue to lack” personal protective equipment.

A study recently published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine by Kenrie P.Y. Hui, PhD, and colleagues compared infection, replication competence, tropism and pathogenesis of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 with other respiratory pathogens.

The COVID-19 pandemic, in places like Detroit, with a large working-class population, can highlight the gap between the rich and the poor. It can demonstrate how political unrest can impact the response to a critical situation. Moreover, it can show how health care workers can face both personal and professional challenges in managing an outbreak of this magnitude.

A multidisciplinary team developed a process that uses vaporized hydrogen peroxide, or VHP, to disinfect N95 respirators, according to a paper published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

As health care workers begin to understand the scope of COVID-19 in their areas and how to respond to it, a new anxiety has set in: How long will the pandemic last?

Leaders of states and cities with the highest burden of COVID-19 early in the pandemic have called for resources — from ventilators to medical personnel — to be shifted to these areas.

A research letter published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in April that concluded surgical and cotton masks were ineffective at preventing the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 was retracted on June 2.