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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