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Hospitals and health care facilities should drop mask requirements, medical experts say
Even after mask mandates were dropped across the country amid dwindling COVID-19 cases and deaths, face coverings have still been required in many doctors’ offices, hospitals and other health care settings. Now, a group of esteemed medical experts is calling for a change. In an April 18 journal entry in the Annals of Internal Medicine, an academic medical journal, several physicians — including infectious disease specialists — wrote that it’s time to remove masking requirements in health care facilities. “While critically important in the earlier phases of the pandemic, we’ve entered a more stable phase, with substantial population-level immunity, durable protection against severe disease, a series of less virulent variants,…
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Close to one billion people globally are served by health-care facilities with no electricity access or with unreliable electricity
Near to 1 billion persons in small- and reduced-middle revenue nations around the world are served by wellness-care amenities with unreliable electrical power offer or with no electrical energy entry at all, according to a new report from the Globe Overall health Business (WHO), the World Financial institution, the Global Renewable Power Company (IRENA), and Sustainable Vitality for All (SEforAll). Access to electrical power is vital for good quality health and fitness-care provision, from offering infants to taking care of emergencies like heart attacks, or offering lifesaving immunization. With no responsible electricity in all wellness-treatment amenities, Common Wellness Coverage can’t be achieved, the report notes. Growing electrification of health-treatment services…
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