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07/20/2021
AMDA - The Society for PALTC Medicine | July 20
COMMERCIAL: COVID-19 Update
Headlines:
New/Updated Guidance
Journal Articles
- Effect of Oral Azithromycin vs Placebo on COVID-19 Symptoms in Outpatients With SARS-CoV-2 Infection
- JAMDA: Prevalence and Predictors of Persistence of COVID-19 Symptoms in Older Adults: A Single-Center Study
- JAMDA: Frailty Assessment In The Emergency Department For Risk Stratification Of Covid-19 Patients ?80 Years
- JAMDA: Clinical factors related to Covid-19 outcomes in institutionalized older adults: cross-sectional analysis from a cohort in Catalonia
- Post-traumatic stress symptoms in COVID-19 survivors: a self-report and brain imaging follow-up study
- Hyperglycaemia increases mortality risk in non-diabetic patients with COVID-19 even more than in diabetic patients
Research Reports/White Papers
Podcasts/Webinars
- AMDA COVID-19 Grand Rounds: New Challenges and Next Steps, July 27, 2021, 6:00 PM ET
- Healing Together: Kick off to the campaign with a presentation for PALTC leaders on grief, trauma, and resilience, July 22, 2021, 6:30 PM ET
News Reports
- Studies of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among long-term care workers receive $11 million
- Average skilled nursing resident with COVID took more than 3 weeks to overcome disease
- Novavax’s Effort to Vaccinate the World, From Zero to Not Quite Warp Speed
- 4 in 5 U.S. Nursing Homes Behind on Staff
- We Need to Dramatically Change the Design of Nursing Homes in the U.S.
- Rarely, Covid vaccine breakthrough infections can be severe. Who's at risk?
- NIH head says full Pfizer vaccine approval could come this summer
- Immune system boost is reason not to skip second COVID-19 shot, study finds
- America’s Great Vaccine Decline