WPSU’s Health Minute is a collaboration with Penn State’s College of Nursing. The ongoing coronavirus pandemic underscores the challenges of communicating
WPSU’s Health Minute is a collaboration with Penn State’s College of Nursing. Many people are working or attending school from home during the pandemic.
WPSU’s Health Minute is a collaboration with Penn State’s College of Nursing. The COVID-19 pandemic is entering its second year of impacting all our lives.
WPSU’s Health Minute is a collaboration with Penn State’s College of Nursing.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health, in cooperation with local health care systems, has started distributing the much-anticipated COVID-19 vaccine.
Experts believe the vaccine may help keep people from getting seriously ill, even if they get COVID-19.
Getting vaccinated may also help protect those around you, especially those who may be at increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19.
Although the vaccine is estimated to be 95% effective, you can still get COVID-19, even after completing the vaccination series. For this reason, vaccinated people will still need to wear a mask, stay at least 6 feet away from others, wash their hands frequently, and avoid large indoor gatherings.
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A quarter century ago, hospitalists didn t exist. Now, these specialists in hospital medicine are managing the care of countless North American patients with COVID-19. They ve learned plenty over the past 10 months, and five from across the country shared pro tips with
MedPage Today about providing optimal care.
Watch Out for Atypical Presentations
Physicians are taught that common things are common simple diagnoses are usually correct, said Benji Mathews, MD, a HealthPartners physician and chief of hospital medicine at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota. But COVID is different, he said. If you hear hoofbeats, you are more likely to see a horse, unless you are in an evolving COVID-19 pandemic. Then it may be a zebra, said Mathews. Try to think of COVID-19 manifestations in the differential for patients with atypical manifestations of common disease.