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07/30/2021
AMDA - The Society for PALTC Medicine | July 30
COMMERCIAL: COVID-19 Update
Headlines:
New/Updated Guidance
- CDC: Interim Public Health Recommendations for Fully Vaccinated People
- CDC: Vaccination to Prevent COVID-19 Outbreaks with Current and Emergent Variants — United States, 2021
- CDC County Vaccination Coverage and COVID-19 Case Rates
- CDC Update on the COVID-19 Pandemic and Delta Variant
- APIC Statement: With Resistant C. auris Spreading, Healthcare Facilities Must Adopt Aggressive Infection Prevention and Control Measures
- CDC: Guidance for Implementing COVID-19 Prevention Strategies in the Context of Varying Community Transmission Levels and Vaccination Coverage
Journal Articles
- Estimating SARS-CoV-2 infections from deaths, confirmed cases, tests, and random surveys
- MMWR: Guidance for Implementing COVID-19 Prevention Strategies in the Context of Varying Community Transmission Levels and Vaccination Coverage
- Use of High-risk Medications Among Lonely Older Adults
- COVID-19, Inter-household Contact and Mental Well-Being Among Older Adults in the US and the UK
- Six Month Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine
- Covid-19 Breakthrough Infections in Vaccinated Health Care Workers
- Presumed SARS-CoV-2 Viral Particles in the Human Retina of Patients With COVID-19
- Self-reported Memory Problems 8 Months After COVID-19 Infection
- Covid-19 Vaccination Perceptions Among Socially Vulnerable Medicare and Medicaid Members: Experience from a National Health Plan Outreach Program
- Will the COVID-19 crisis catalyse universal health reforms?
- MMWR: Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage Among Health Care Personnel Working in Long-Term Care Facilities, by Job Category, National Healthcare Safety Network — United States, March 2021
- What is the association of COVID-19 with heart attacks and strokes?
- Postvaccinal encephalitis after ChAdOx1 nCov-19
Research Reports/White Papers
Podcasts/Webinars
News Reports
- Up to 60% of U.S. Covid-19 Cases Unreported, Disease Model Says
- As Virus Cases Rise, Another Contagion Spreads Among the Vaccinated: Anger
- Calls for Covid Jab Mandates in Health Jobs Add to Staffing Woes
- Long-term care watching as VA implements vaccine mandate for workers
- Nursing Homes May Face Steeper Safety Fines
- Nursing-home workers have a vaccine problem
- Unraveling the Mysterious Mutations That Make Delta the Most Transmissible Covid Virus Yet
- Could Covid vaccine be taken as a pill?
- COVID Breakthrough Cases Ran the Gamut in Healthcare Workers
- AHCA backs mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for healthcare workers
- Providers ‘spinning again’ — COVID cases projected to peak nationwide in October
- Tampa Bay nursing homes limit visitation as COVID-19 cases rise
- Screen older adults for pandemic-related mental health concerns, researchers say
- Vaccine Hesitancy Is Complex — Try to understand, rather than dismiss, the concerns of the unvaccinated
- C.D.C. Internal Report Calls Delta Variant as Contagious as Chickenpox