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While other medical systems across the country failed to maintain HIV screening volumes throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Chicago Medicine maintained screening volumes by including universal HIV screening alongside COVID-19 testing in its busy emergency department, according to a new report published April 12 in
JAMA Internal Medicine. Through targeted efforts to maintain infrastructure and enthusiasm for HIV screening, the number of HIV tests remained at pre-pandemic levels while the rate of acute HIV diagnoses actually increased.
Widespread screening to diagnose individuals newly infected with HIV is a key part of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s (CDC) plan to end the HIV epidemic in America. However, the COVID-19 pandemic presented a challenge, because changes to the logistics of running emergency departments during a pandemic led to reduced HIV screening across the country.
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Brother and sister Robert Baldwin Jr. and Caroline Bivens credit their faith and unwavering family dedication for getting them through Bivens’ “living” kidney donation to Baldwin, whose diseased kidneys started failing at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
They credit University of Chicago Medicine with being one of the only hospitals in the country to perform a minimally invasive surgery in February that left Bivens with just a bandage on her belly button and Baldwin a new kidney.
McKissack & McKissack Taps Sam Boye and Girard Jenkins for Key Midwest Roles
Seasoned operations and project executives bring deep experience to commercial, infrastructure, education and landmark public projects
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CHICAGO, May 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ National architecture, engineering and construction management firm McKissack & McKissack is adding depth to its team by hiring Sam Boye Jr. as operations manager for the Midwest and West regions of the country and promoting Girard Jenkins to project executive for the Midwest.
McKissack & McKissack names Sam Boye Jr. as operations manager for the Midwest and West regions and promotes Girard Jenkins to project executive for the Midwest.
Cases of fully vaccinated people contracting COVID-19 âextremely rare,â doctor says
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Cases of fully vaccinated people contracting COVID-19 âextremely rare,â doctor says
Dr. Stephen Schrantz, infectious disease specialist from University of Chicago Medicine, talks about the extremely rare cases of people contracting COVID-19 after being fully vaccinated.
CHICAGO - Last week Illinois began releasing data on so-called breakthrough COVID-19 cases, people who have been fully vaccinated but still get the virus and sometimes die.
At least 97 fully vaccinated people in Illinois have been hospitalized due to contracting the virus and 32 have died, according to the state s latest data.