Tag: Emily Landon
How Will Hospitals Decide When to Mask Up This Fall?
Back in the spring, around the end of the COVID-19 public-health emergency, hospitals around the country underwent a change in dress code. The masks that staff had been wearing at work for more than three years vanished, in some places overnight. At UChicago Medicine, where masking policies softened at the end of May, Emily Landon, the executive medical director of infection prevention and control, fielded hate mail from colleagues, some chiding her for waiting too long to lift the requirement,
Die neuen Regeln des Krankseins
Der maskenlose Mann ein paar Reihen weiter hustete sich den Kopf ab. Ich war gerade vor ein paar Wochen in den Zug von DC nach New York City eingestiegen und reckte mir zusammen mit mehreren anderen Passagieren den Hals, um zu sehen, was los war. Dies war nicht der schilfige Bodensatz einer anhaltenden Kälte. Dies war ein tiefer, konstanter, vollmundiger Husten. Denken Sie an die Müllentsorgung mit einer darin gefangenen Gabel.
Niemand sagte etwas zu dem Mann (zumindest meines Wissens).
Your Negative COVID Test Is Basically Meaningless
In early May, 27-year-old Hayley Furmaniuk felt tired and a bit congested, but after rapid-testing negative for the coronavirus two days in a row, she dined indoors with friends. The next morning, her symptoms worsened. Knowing her parents were driving in for Mother’s Day, she tested again—and saw a very bright positive. Which meant three not-so-great things: She needed to cancel with her parents; she had likely exposed her friends; a test had apparently taken three days to register what
The Pandemic Isn’t Over for Immunocompromised People
When the coronavirus pandemic began, Emily Landon thought about her own risk only in rare quiet moments. An infectious-disease doctor at the University of Chicago Medicine, she was cramming months of work into days, preparing her institution for the virus’s arrival in the United States. But Landon had also recently developed rheumatoid arthritis—a disease in which a person’s immune system attacks their own joints—and was taking two drugs that, by suppressing said immune system, made her more vulnerable to pathogens.