COBTH in the News

Study: N95 respirators can be safely decontaminated up to 25 times

January 13, 2022

EMS1

The study stemmed from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston, where physician-scientists observed medical staff resuing N95 respirators after decontaminating them using vaporized hydrogen peroxide.

Key factors that lead to missed outpatient ultrasound appointments

January 13, 2022

Radiology Business

Boston Children’s Hospital researchers sought to better understand such “imaging missed care opportunities,” homing in on neonatal ultrasound appointments at the urban institution.

When Will We Reach Herd Immunity? Boston Doctors Explain

January 13, 2022

NBC10 Boston

Top Boston doctors talk about how hospitals are coping with the surge, herd immunity and a possible new COVID-19 strain dubbed “deltacron.”

Hospitals are doing their part on COVID-19; we ask the public to do theirs

January 6, 2022

Boston Globe

We can’t do it alone. As much as we believe in the power of individual choice, there are times that require individual action for the common good. This is one of those times.

Boston’s first baby of 2022 born at Brigham and Women’s Hospital just after midnight

January 1, 2022

Mass Live

The first Boston baby to be born in 2022 was delivered just five minutes into the new year.

‘It’s just relentless’: Exhausted hospital workers battle another COVID surge

January 1, 2022

Boston Globe

As the pandemic stretches on and cases climb again, a depleted battalion of health care workers is battling yet another big surge of COVID.

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