Preparing for future waves and pandemics: a global hospital survey on infection control measures and infection rates in COVID-19.

A survey of hospitals on three continents was performed to assess their infection control preparedness and measures, and their infection rate in hospital health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. All surveyed hospitals used similar PPE but differences in preparedness, PPE shortages, and infection rates were reported.

Antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination is extremely vivacious in subjects with previous SARS-CoV-2 infection.

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic calls for rapid actions, now principally oriented to a world-wide vaccination campaign. In this study we verified if, in individuals with a previous SARS-CoV-2 infection, a single dose of messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine would be immunologically equivalent to a full vaccine schedule in naïve individuals. Health care workers (184) with a previous SARS-CoV-2 infection were sampled soon before the second dose of vaccine and between 7 and 10 days after the second dose, the last sampling time was applied to SARS-CoV-2 naïve individuals, too.

Occupational health and safety of road haulage company employees.

Background: This paper follows up on a project that was launched in 2008 and contributed to the development of the new Italian Society of Occupational Medicine (SIML) guidelines for the road haulage industry.

Objective: To reach a better understanding of occupational illness amongst truck drivers, in order to define appropriate health monitoring protocols and promote a healthy life-style.

Methods: We assessed 673 male drivers (mean age 43.

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Background: Diabetes is a disease with high social impact and it is important to consider how work may be influenced by it or whether work itself may promote or accelerate its course.

Objectives: The objective was to investigate the prevalence of diabetes in four critical categories of workers. The survey involved construction workers, truck drivers, bus drivers and shift workers in the manufacturing sector.