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06/29/2021
AMDA - The Society for PALTC Medicine | June 29
COMMERCIAL: COVID-19 Update
Headlines:
New/Updated Guidance
- CDC Introduces COVID-19 Viral Testing Online Tool
- ACIP: Overview of data to inform recommendations for booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines (slide deck)
Journal Articles
- Protecting Nursing Home Residents from Covid-19: Federal Strike Team Findings and Lessons Learned
- Comparison of COVID-19 Vaccine Approvals at the US Food and Drug Administration, European Medicines Agency, and Health Canada
- Lessons Emerging From COVID-19 Responses by US States
- Increased lung cell entry of B.1.617.2 and evasion of antibodies induced by infection and BNT162b2 vaccination
- Sequencing SARS-CoV-2 Genomes from Saliva
Podcasts/Webinars
News Reports
- Delta Covid variant has a new mutation called ‘delta plus’: Here’s what you need to know
- Pfizer and Moderna Vaccines Are Likely to Produce Long-Lasting Immunity, Study Suggests
- Covid-19 made America’s long-term care crisis impossible to ignore
- Government Needs to Back Shift to Private Rooms in Nursing Homes
- Nursing Homes Use of Staffing Agencies Soars During Pandemic as Workforce Crisis Deepens
- Unintended effects: Antibiotic prescribing falls 79 percent for respiratory viruses
- Long-term care residents, staff may top list for COVID boosters: CDC advisers
- Now is the time to ‘push hard’ against vaccine hesitancy: senior living expert
- Older women recount more pandemic stress struggles than older men
- Protecting The Immuno-Compromised Against COVID Could Be Key To Ending The Pandemic
- Why No One Is Sure If Delta Is Deadlier
- U.S. Pauses Use of Lilly's Monoclonal Antibody Combo for COVID — Bamlanivimab and etesevimab not active against all viral strains
