Health Literacy Newsletter: Fall 2022

• What Does It Mean To Be ‘Immunocompromised’? from Yale Medicine
  • "What does it actually mean to be immunocompromised? Simply put, it’s when your immune system isn’t working as well as it should to protect you from infection—or that your immune system can’t distinguish between normal and foreign cells."
• Infections in Immunocompromised Patients from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
• People Who Are Immunocompromised from the CDC

• Caregiver Discrimination in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic from the Hastings Journal on Gender and the Law
• COVID-19 Information for Caregivers of Cancer Patients from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
• Caring for Someone Sick at Home: Advice for caregivers in non-healthcare settings from CDC

Graphic used with permission from Cameron Lynch

• How the Pandemic Has Impacted High-Risk Librarians from We Need Diverse Books
• Crowdsourcing COVID-19: A brief analysis of librarian posts on Reddit from PubMed Central
• The immunocompromised workers being left behind from the BBC
• Stop Employees from 'Mask Shaming' Colleagues from the Society for Human Resource Management

• Employee Accomdation Requests: Faculty, Staff and Student Workers
• UMBC Caregiving Reports and Recommendations
• UMBC Resources for Caregivers
• Medical and Dependent care Flexible spending accounts are available to eligible UMBC employees and can be used for medical or dependent care expenses.

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