In a small study of 100 people who contracted COVID-19 in the first wave, more than half have long-term changes to their sense of smell, according to preliminary research published Jan. 20 by MedRxiv.
Category: Patient Safety & Outcomes
Viewpoint: Healthcare needs a ‘quintuple aim’
The healthcare industry should expand the “quadruple aim” to include a fifth key focus: advancing health equity, three physician leaders wrote in a Jan. 21 op-ed published in JAMA.
Minnesota COVID-19 patient dies in Texas after court rules to continue life support
Scott Quiner — a COVID-19 patient who was transferred from Coon Rapids, Minn.-based Mercy Hospital to a Texas care facility after a judge issued a restraining order stopping the hospital from turning off lifesaving machines — has died, according to The…
COVID-19, not vaccine, may affect male fertility, NIH study finds
A National Institutes of Health-funded study involving more than 2,000 couples found COVID-19 vaccination doesn’t affect the chances of conception.
‘The pandemic we were afraid of in 2020’: Some patients dying because Massachusetts hospitals at capacity
As Massachusetts hospitals struggle amid the current omicron surge, multiple reports have emerged of patients dying because they couldn’t be transferred to higher-level care, NPR reported Jan. 18.
Minnesota COVID-19 patient transferred to Texas after judge rules to keep him ventilated
A ventilated patient with severe COVID-19 was transferred from Coon Rapids, Minn.-based Mercy Hospital to a Texas care facility after a judge issued a restraining order stopping the hospital from turning life-saving machines off, according to a Jan. 17…
Physician viewpoint: Protecting immunocompromised from COVID-19 is everyone’s responsibility
Society as whole has a hand in protecting immunocompromised people from COVID-19, according to two physician scientists who treat transplant recipients at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
COVID-19 increases diabetes risk among children, CDC finds
After a COVID-19 infection, children are more likely to be diagnosed with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, compared to those who haven’t been infected, according to the CDC’s Jan. 7 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Mortality rates dropped 33% at NYC hospital after NYU Langone merger, study finds
In-hospital mortality rates decreased by 33 percent at New York City-based NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn — previously named Lutheran Medical Center — after it merged with NYU Langone Health, a Jan. 6 study published in JAMA Network Open found.
Pfizer shot protects against MIS-C, CDC study finds
Two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine was 91 percent effective at preventing multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C, a rare but serious condition tied to COVID-19, according to the CDC’s Jan. 7 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly …
