Bioterrorism and Disaster Medicine News

• Facebook Lawsuit Flags Need to Screen for Vicarious Trauma A first-of-its-kind lawsuit that resulted in a $52 million payout by Facebook to its content moderators brings a greater understanding of the severe physical and psychological harm caused by vicarious trauma.
  Medscape Medical News, October 29, 2020
• US Records More Than 71,000 Cases on Thursday New coronavirus statistics bear out experts' predictions that the coronavirus will tighten its grip on the United States in the fall and winter.
  WebMD Health News, October 23, 2020
• Joint Commission Issues Telehealth Safety Advisory However, the advisory focuses mostly on the pandemic and leaves out a big chunk of what affects safe practices in virtual encounters.
  Medscape Medical News, October 16, 2020
• Herd Immunity a 'Dangerous Fallacy,' Lancet Open Letter Says Earlier in October, the Great Barrington Declaration proposed "focused protection" as a valid epidemiologic strategy to thwart COVID-19, a proposal the John Snow Memorandum now calls "flawed" and "dangerous."
  Medscape Medical News, October 14, 2020
• Physicians React: End Retaliation Against Docs Who Speak Out Physicians are calling out administrators who are retaliating against their peers for speaking out on safety issues such as the lack of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Medscape Medical News, October 13, 2020
• States Plan to Vet COVID Vaccines Themselves
  Kaiser Health News, October 08, 2020
• Life Experiences Help Older Adults Build Resilience to Pandemic Trauma "There are some older adults who are doing quite well during the pandemic and have actually expanded their social networks and activities."
  Kaiser Health News, October 08, 2020
• Trump Returns to White House, but 'Not Out of Woods Yet' The president's personal physician and others caring for him during his COVID-19 hospitalization report he is fit for discharge to the White House Monday evening.
  Medscape Medical News, October 05, 2020
• Trump & COVID: Who Is Positive, Who Is Negative Here is a breakdown of who we know has tested positive and who has tested negative.
  WebMD Health News, October 05, 2020
• Trump's 'Doing Very Well,' Could Be Discharged Monday: Doctors President Trump has received oxygen therapy and dexamethasone, doctors confirm, and continues to improve during his hospital stay at Walter Reed as of Sunday morning.
  Medscape Medical News, October 04, 2020
• President as Patient: What We Know About Trump's COVID Condition President Trump's tweet early Friday announcing that he and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 triggered a global scramble to learn more specific details and their implications.
  Medscape Medical News, October 02, 2020
• CDC Extends No-Sail Order for Cruise Ships "Recent outbreaks on cruise ships overseas provide current evidence that cruise ship travel continues to transmit and amplify the spread," even when ships are at reduced passenger capacity, the CDC said.
  WebMD Health News, October 01, 2020
• Investors Extracted $400 Million From a Failing Hospital Chain Prospect Medical, which mostly serves low-income patients, has suffered a litany of problems: broken elevators, dirty surgical gear, bedbugs and more while its investors cashed in.
  ProPublica, October 01, 2020
• Global Death Toll for COVID-19 Passes 1 Million Mark It's certain to get worse. Mike Ryan of the World Health Organization said a few days ago that the number of worldwide deaths could very well reach 2 million, even with a vaccine.
  WebMD Health News, September 29, 2020
• COVID-19 Has Killed More Than 1700 Healthcare Workers: Report A report by National Nurses United indicates that a lack of coordinated tracking of infections and 'government and employer willful inaction' have caused unnecessary deaths among healthcare workers.
  Medscape Medical News, September 29, 2020
• SCCM COVID-19 2020 Scarce COVID-19 Resources Demand That Competitors Share Now is the time to build relationships across health systems and refine triage protocols, ahead of the potential second wave of COVID-19, experts say.
  Medscape Medical News, September 18, 2020
• Clinician Deaths From COVID-19: 'A Crisis on a Staggering Scale' Mexico has had the most healthcare workers affected, followed by the United States, the United Kingdom, and Brazil, according to new data.
  Medscape Medical News, September 17, 2020
• Government Describes Plan to Distribute COVID-19 Vaccine 'We're dealing in a world of great uncertainty. We don't know the timing of when we'll have a vaccine. We don't know the quantities. We don't know the efficacy of those vaccines,' said HHS' Paul Mango.
  WebMD Health News, September 17, 2020
• Seeping Under Doors, Bad Air From West's Fires Won't Ease Up Dangerously dirty air spewing from the West Coast wildfires is seeping into homes and businesses. The acrid yellow-green smog may linger for days or weeks, scientists and forecasters said.
  Associated Press, September 17, 2020
• Disaster Declaration Issued for Oregon Wildfires President Donald Trump has issued an emergency declaration for Oregon because of the deadly wildfires that have burned across the state.
  Associated Press, September 16, 2020