COVID-19: Caring for Patients and Communities
A study concluded long-term care aides must have more support, including adequate staffing levels and resources, pandemic preparedness and mental health assistance.
The Department of Health and Human Services will launch a national advertising campaign and tour to encourage families to get the updated Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine booster.
The declining federal funding for COVID-19 “risks a backslide in pandemic protection, with disproportionate effects on the most vulnerable Americans,” states a commentary in the American Journal of Infection Control.
COVID-19 vaccinations are associated with over 650,000 fewer hospitalizations and 300,000 fewer deaths in the Medicare population through December
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last week released guidance dropping its requirement for
White House health leaders stated this week the public likely will need annual COVID-19 booster shots,
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week approved COVID-19 booster shots from Pfizer and Moderna targeting the omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will resume control of COVID-19 hospital data collection in mid-December
COVID-19 vaccinations began this week for children under the age of five.
The AHA last week launched Just the Facts, a video offering a simple, but stark look the number of children getting infected, hospitalized and dying from COVID-19.