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Temporary isolation wards have been introduced to meet demands for airborne-infection-isolation-rooms (AIIRs) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Environmental sampling and outbreak investigation was conducted in temporary isolation wards converted from

In the article “Impact of an antimicrobial stewardship program in a COVID-19 reference hospital according to the AWaRe classification.” by João Paulo Telles, et al. in the October issue of the American Journal of Infection Control (2022;50(10):1182

To prepare NYS hospitals for reporting in The National Healthcare Safety Network's Antimicrobial Use and Resistance (AUR) Module, the Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) launched a voluntary Antibiotic Stewardship Collaborative (ASC) in

Clostridioides difficile (formerly Clostridium difficile) infection (CDI) is the most common healthcare-associated infection (HAI), labeled an Urgent Threat by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.1 Patients with CDI can be asymptomatic or

In December 2019, unexplained pneumonia occurred successively in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. Chinese scholars isolated the virus from the patient samples and completed the whole genome sequencing on January 10, 2020. On January 11, 2020, the World

SARS-CoV-2 is a highly infectious respiratory virus that is primarily transmitted by respiratory aerosols and droplets emitted during activities such as talking, breathing, and coughing.1, 2 In the past, aerosols have been defined as airborne

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused high morbidity and mortality in the United States, with new variants spreading.1 While the pandemic has impacted everyone, racial/ethnic minorities have shouldered a disproportionate burden

As of May 30, 2021 approximately only 50% of the total US adult population received full vaccination against the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) after the resulting novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) contributed to

Focused Multivector Ultraviolet (FMUV) technology rapidly killed the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in-vitro. Plates were inoculated with a mean of greater than 106 plaque forming units (PFUs) of USA-WA1 Washington index patient strain of SARS-CoV-2 and

To consider a one-year time window of the COVID-19 crisis to integrate qualitative and quantitative data and provide an in-depth analysis of all COVID-19 publications from geographical, epidemiological and chronological perspectives.