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Comparison of COVID-19 Federal Guidance for Certifying Deaths to the CDC’s Assessments of Superbug-Related Deaths

August 20, 2020 Lawrence F Muscarella PhD

This post reviews the CDC’s April guidance for recording the cause of deaths related to the COVID-19 virus, and compares it to published assessments of the cause of death of…

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CDC Confirms Superbug Transmission via Endoscopy

January 19, 2014 Lawrence F Muscarella PhD

The medical news source Medscape published an article on January 3, 3014, about an outbreak of a concerning type of multidrug-resistant bacteria confirmed at a hospital outside of Chicago, Illinois,…

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