Findings support excluding chronic heart failure, cirrhosis, chronic lung disease from a list of conditions which should be triaged as lower priority for ventilators if there is a shortage.
The Occupational Health Center (OHC) satellite clinic will open on Monday, Dec. 14, serving BUMC faculty and staff for work-related injuries/illnesses, post-offer examinations, work-related immunizations, pulmonary function tests, and bloodborne pathogen exposures.
The retrospective study showed a strong correlation between higher 25-hydroxyvitamin D blood levels and lower SARS-CoV-2 positivity rates especially in patients who lived in predominantly African-Americans and Hispanic zip codes.
Using trauma-informed principles in telehealth visits may mitigate health impacts of COVID-19 while increasing engagement in care and opportunities for protective, healing connections.