06/07/2021

AMDA - The Society for PALTC Medicine | June 4

COMMERCIAL: COVID-19 Update

Headlines:

New/Updated Guidance

• WHO: Naming SARS-CoV-2 variants
• ASTHO: Increasing Access to Vaccination Opportunities: COVID-19 Vaccination upon Discharge from Hospitals, Emergency Departments, and Urgent Care Facilities
• IDSA Re-examines Role of Antigen Testing for SARS-CoV-2 at This Point in Pandemic

 

Journal Articles

• JAMDA: Special Section on COVID-19 in long-term care
• The Association of Nursing Home Quality Ratings and Spread of COVID-19
• COVID-19 Disease Trajectories Among Nursing Home Residents
• When Vaccine Apathy, Not Hesitancy, Drives Vaccine Disinterest
• Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Versus Influenza in Hospitalized Adult Patients in the United States: Differences in Demographic and Severity Indicators
• Could Statins Do More Than Lower Cholesterol in Patients With COVID-19?
• Bamlanivimab for Prevention of COVID-19
• EEffect of Bamlanivimab vs Placebo on Incidence of COVID-19 Among Residents and Staff of Skilled Nursing and Assisted Living Facilities

• COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: the five Cs to tackle behavioural and sociodemographic factors
• COVID-19 Case Investigation and Contact Tracing in the US, 2020
• MMWR: Excess Death Estimates in Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease — United States, February–August 2020
• MMWR: Patterns in COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage, by Social Vulnerability and Urbanicity — United States, December 14, 2020–May 1, 2021
• Proper use of noncontact infrared thermometry for temperature screening during COVID-19
• Proof of concept for real-time detection of SARS CoV-2 infection with an electronic nose
• COVID-19 susceptibility in long-term care facilities
• Psychoanalytical perspectives on the COVID-19 pandemic

News Reports

• The name game for coronavirus variants just got a little easier
• Moderna applies for full F.D.A. approval for its Covid vaccine.
• Little-Known Illnesses Turning Up in Covid Long-Haulers
• The ‘Grief Pandemic’ Will Torment Americans for Years
• The revolution in DIY testing that will outlive the pandemic
• COVID-19 Hitting Small Skilled Nursing Operators Hardest
• Despite vaccines, nursing homes still struggle with Covid outbreaks, deaths
• NIH clinical trial evaluating mixed COVID-19 vaccine schedules begins
• Nursing homes among ‘safest places’ for seniors following 98% drop in COVID cases: NIC
• Alzheimer’s disease increases the risk of severe COVID-19 and death from this viral disease
• Feds identify promising and ‘urgently needed’ COVID antiviral drug

AMDA's COVID19 Resources Page