On a chilly night last February, 57 Americans who had traveled from Wuhan, China, landed in Omaha to quarantine at Camp Ashland, giving Nebraska experts an early introduction to the
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Data breaches at UPMC, Nebraska Medicine affect 250,000+ individuals
Providers are the most common targets for cyber criminals attacking the healthcare industry, and now, two major health systems have added their names to the list of recent data breach victims. The recently divulged information breaches affected 255,000 individuals.
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Even as the novel coronavirus was raging in the U.S. last year, providers were concurrently fighting a different scourge: hackers.
Several major providers experienced IT incidents in 2020, including the 26-hospital Universal Health Services and University of Vermont Medical Center. Last week, Pittsburgh-based UPMC and Omaha-based Nebraska Medicine announced that they too are on the list.
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Even before India reported its first case of Covid-19, WhatsApp messages began circulating, replete with advice on how to prevent and cure the SARS-CoV-2 infection. One message advised the reader to drink water every 15 minutes, another said the virus could be killed by breathing hot air from the sauna or a hair dryer.
In March 2020, the deputy commissioner of Mangaluru directed officials to take action against individuals spreading Covid-related fake messages on WhatsApp. However, such measures do not address the systemic lack of scientific understanding in society.
Apart from being potentially life-threatening, the rise of pseudo-scientific messaging during the pandemic has also exposed that India’s educational system hasn’t done enough to impart scientific temper and understanding among our citizens. While these fault lines were often visible during sporadic events in the past, Covid brought them to the fore.
Double face masks? N95? Protect yourself against new Covid-19 variants with these mask upgrades
A man wears a double mask as he visits Times Square in New York on December 10, 2020. - US President-elect Joe Biden said he will ask Americans to wear masks for the first 100 days of his administration to curtail the spread of coronavirus. (Photo by Kena Betancur / AFP)
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It’s time to up your mask game.
As new, more-contagious coronavirus variants circulate, doctors say it’s important to improve the effectiveness of your mask practices such as by “double masking to wear two at once. Numerous studies have found that masks help protect the wearers as well as those around them from the virus that causes Covid-19.