Suffolk County in New York has recently ramped up its mass vaccination efforts with the help of a mobile medical facility from BLU-MED Response Systems®. The mobile medical facility sits outside the Dennison building in Hauppauge, itself a vaccination site, […]
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the United States set a new record, surpassing 4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines being administered in the last 24 hours. Despite 18.5% of Americans now being fully vaccinated, new […]
The United States is still very much in the midst of the pandemic stemming from COVID-19. Hospitals remain overwhelmed and healthcare workers overworked. We’ve all heard hospitals announce they are out of beds, meaning they simply cannot receive any new […]
One of the newest strategies in the fight against COVID-19 is antibody infusion therapy. Here’s what you need to know about antibodies, their effectiveness against the novel coronavirus, and setting up safe antibody infusion centers. What Are Antibodies? Antibodies are […]
News of inefficient COVID vaccine distribution has been reported consistently since approved vaccines arrived at vaccination sites across the country. But this hasn’t been the case for the Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado. The U.S. Food and […]
To help treat COVID-19 patients, alternate care sites are being used across the nation. Alternative care facilities offer a quick way to provide urgent medical care to patients during hospital surges. However, it is important to still take proper safety […]
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, nursing homes and assisted living centers have been forced to choose between two difficult options: Risk exposing elderly residents to the coronavirus. Prevent them from seeing their loved ones. Not seeing loved ones, […]
Since March 2020, healthcare providers have faced overwhelming demand for COVID-19 treatment and testing. But what often goes unnoticed are the creative solutions they’ve used to meet those demands. For example, several hospitals teamed up with college campuses across the […]
It’s no secret that COVID-19 took hospitals by storm this year. Many hospitals expanded their facilities to accommodate the overflow of patients. But what will become of those facilities once the pandemic has subsided? One of the major advantages of […]
Mobile hospitals have been a crucial part of every war in history. From ancient battles and sieges to the combat support hospitals that followed troops throughout Europe during World War II, mobile field hospitals and evacuation hospitals have saved countless […]
Every pandemic in history has been the same in two key ways: (1) each has caught humanity off guard and (2) quickly overrun the existing medical infrastructure. Time and again, this has left healthcare organizations, hospitals, clinics, emergency response teams, […]
A surge of new coronavirus cases in the U.S. has the potential to surpass the growth of COVID cases seen in July during the “summer surge”. The seven-day average for new infections is now more than 58,000 per day, an […]