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07/26/2021
AMDA - The Society for PALTC Medicine | July 23
COMMERCIAL: COVID-19 Update
Headlines:
New/Updated Guidance
- HHS: Renewal of Determination That A Public Health Emergency Exists
- CDC Project Firstline: Infection Control Resources
- AHA Policy Statement on Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination of Health Care Personnel
Journal Articles
- JAMDA: Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance: Building Trust to Protect Nursing Home Staff & Residents
- JAMDA: Proactive risk stratification of nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic: optimising resource allocation.
- Exploring the Gap Between Excess Mortality and COVID-19 Deaths in 67 Countries
- Age-Dependent Neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 and P.1 Variant by Vaccine Immune Serum Samples
- Effectiveness of Covid-19 Vaccines against the B.1.617.2 (Delta) Variant
- SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Effectiveness in a High-Risk National Population in a Real-World Setting
- Real-World Clinical Outcomes of Bamlanivimab and Casirivimab-Imdevimab among High-Risk Patients with Mild to Moderate Coronavirus Disease 2019
- Delta variants of SARS-CoV-2 cause significantly increased vaccine breakthrough COVID-19 cases in Houston, Texas
- MMWR: Notes from the Field: Transmission of Pan-Resistant and Echinocandin-Resistant Candida auris in Health Care Facilities ? Texas and the District of Columbia, January–April 2021
- Effectiveness of a Multicomponent Intervention to Reduce Multidrug-Resistant Organisms in Nursing Homes
- MMWR: Changes in Influenza and Other Respiratory Virus Activity During the COVID-19 Pandemic — United States, 2020–2021
- Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients with systemic rheumatic diseases
- Comparison Of Clinical And Biochemical Features Of Hospitalized COVID-19 And Influenza Pneumonia Patients
- Patient Factors and Hospital Outcomes Associated With Atypical Presentation in Hospitalized Older Adults With COVID-19 During the First Surge of the Pandemic
Research Reports/White Papers
Podcasts/Webinars
- AMDA COVID-19 Grand Rounds: New Challenges and Next Steps, July 27, 2021, 6:00 PM
- Trauma and COVID-19: Addressing Mental Health among Racial/Ethnic Minority Populations. July 29, 2021, 12:00-1:00 ET
News Reports
- Gottlieb warns Delta variant will be "most serious virus" unvaccinated get in their lifetime
- Jacksonville hospital breaks Covid record in latest Florida surge
- Nursing Homes Strive to Rebuild After COVID, Meet Ever Changing PRF Requirements
- Functional impairment from COVID-19 may persist long after ICU discharge, studies suggest
- Providers face legal backlash from vaccine mandates for employees
- Circumventing Covid-19 with better ventilation and air quality
- Delta variant now makes up 83% of cases, CDC director says, pressed on booster shots
- Feds wait for lowered vaccine efficacy to recommend COVID-19 booster shots
- COVID Outbreak Reported at Cape Cod Nursing Home
- Unvaccinated staff eyed in rising nursing home cases, deaths
- Countries Make COVID-19 Vaccines Mandatory
- US in ‘another pivotal moment’ as Delta variant drives surge in Covid cases
- ‘Superbug’ fungus spread in two cities, health officials say
- Online tool helps take guesswork out of COVID-19 testing in long-term care facilities