Caitlyn Stulpin

New Jersey

Staff Writer, SLACK Incorporated at Healio

🦠Infectious disease reporter for @InfectDisNews 🥊Boxer/Boxing coach. Movie buff, stress baker & CrossFitter 🏋🏼‍♀️ Opinions are all me.

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Three dead in Listeria outbreak linked to refrigerated chicken fettuccini alfredo meals

1 week ago | healio.com | Caitlyn Stulpin

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Response team ensured quick identification, PEP after possible in-hospital rabies exposure

1 week ago | healio.com | Caitlyn Stulpin

Key takeaways: After a bat was seen in a progressive care unit, a multidisciplinary team was deployed. The team identified 131 potential exposures and ensured timely post-exposure vaccination for those interested. PHOENIX — A multidisciplinary team helped to quickly identify potential rabies exposures after a bat was seen in a hospital, leading to timely post-exposure vaccinations for interested patients, according to a recent study. “A bat flying around in a health care facility is a big deal.
Health system doubles infection prevention staff, watches infections plummet

1 week ago | healio.com | Caitlyn Stulpin

Key takeaways:The system increased infection prevention staff from 11 to 24 infection preventionists. This resulted in significant decreases in catheter-associated UTIs, C.difficileand colon surgical site infections. PHOENIX — Infection rates decreased by up to 57% at a Virginia health system when it increased the size of its infection prevention staff, according to data presented at a conference.
HHS rehires hundreds of CDC staff, may reopen crucial STI lab

2 weeks ago | healio.com | Stephen Feller |Caitlyn Stulpin

Key takeaways: HHS rehired more than 450 people from four CDC divisions. Among those rehired were the staff of the CDC’s STI lab. HHS is rehiring hundreds of people fired from their positions at the CDC during initial government downsizing efforts earlier this year, the department confirmed to Healio. Roughly 460 people will be reinstated, most of whom work for the CDC in the Atlanta area, a union representing agency workers told Healio.
Kennedy names eight new members to CDC vaccine advisory committee

2 weeks ago | healio.com | Gerard Gallagher |Caitlyn Stulpin |Sara Kellner

Key takeaways:The committee is made up of independent advisors who make recommendations to the CDC. Several of the new members rose to prominence as critics of the country’s COVID-19 response. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has named eight new members to the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee, including several who rose to prominence as critics of vaccines or the U.S. response to COVID-19.
Another Salmonella outbreak linked to eggs hospitalizes more than 20

2 weeks ago | healio.com | Caitlyn Stulpin

Key takeaways: There have been 79 cases of Salmonella reported in seven states, including 21 hospitalizations. So far, 1.7 million eggs have been recalled as of June 6. The CDC is investigating a Salmonella outbreak linked to eggs that has left dozens of people sick and prompted a recall of 1.7 million eggs. To date, 79 people in seven states have been infected with the same outbreak strain of Salmonella, which investigators have traced back to the August Egg Company in Hilmar, California.
Closed CDC lab was cornerstone of national, global STI science

3 weeks ago | healio.com | Gerard Gallagher |Stephen Feller |Caitlyn Stulpin

Read more Key takeaways: The Trump administration closed a CDC lab that tracked STIs, including drug-resistant gonorrhea. Experts painted a grim picture of STI surveillance in the wake of the lab’s closing. In early 2023, health officials in Massachusetts and at the CDC announced the detection of the first two cases of gonorrhea in the United States that were resistant or showed reduced susceptibility to five different classes of antibiotics.
HHS ends government-funded COVID-19 test program

3 weeks ago | healio.com | Caitlyn Stulpin

Key takeaways:$1 billion was spent on the program over the last 4 years. HHS is in the process of purchasing a supply of tests that can distinguish between COVID-19 and influenza to have on hand for emergencies. HHS has ended a government-funded program that distributed free COVID-19 tests to community organizations, a department spokesperson confirmed to Healio.
Q&A: Operational definition for sepsis should be updated, experts say

3 weeks ago | healio.com | Caitlyn Stulpin |Michael Klompas

Key takeaways:Sepsis is defined as a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection. Experts say this should change as many patients “with sepsis” have conditions that mimic sepsis. Experts are calling for a modification to the operational definition for sepsis, which they say could improve patient outcomes by allowing care providers to focus on severe patients and aid in antibiotic stewardship efforts.
HHS cancels $766 million in funding for pandemic flu vaccines

4 weeks ago | healio.com | Caitlyn Stulpin

Key takeaways:The funding included $176 million given to Moderna last year and $590 million awarded in January. HHS said an internal review showed that the program did not meet scientific standards or safety expectations. HHS has terminated contracts with Moderna worth more than $700 million that were meant to fund the company’s development of pre-pandemic influenza vaccines, including the company’s H5 bird flu vaccine candidate.