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08/04/2021
AMDA - The Society for PALTC Medicine | August 4
COMMERCIAL: COVID-19 Update
Headlines:
New/Updated Guidance
- AMDA Position Statement on Appropriate Staffing Standards In Post-Acute and Long-Term Care
- Behavioral Health Implementation Guide for the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care
Journal Articles/Preprints
- Outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 Infections, Including COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Infections, Associated with Large Public Gatherings — Barnstable County, Massachusetts, July 2021
- Highly Resistant Candida auris Often Colonizes Residents in Long-Term Facilities
- Effectiveness of a tailored intervention to reduce antibiotics for urinary tract infections in nursing home residents: a cluster, randomised controlled trial
- JAMDA: Protecting Nursing Homes and Long Term Care Facilities From Covid-19: A Rapid Review Of International Evidence
- JAMDA: A Longitudinal, Clinical and Spatial Epidemiological Analysis of a Large COVID-19 Long-term Care Home Outbreak
- JAMDA: Re-Thinking Positive Coronavirus Results: Interpreting RT-PCR Testing in Nursing Home Resident
- JAMDA: Assessing Social Functioning during COVID-19 and Beyond: Tools and Considerations for Nursing Home Staff
- Comparison of Medication Prescribing Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Nursing Home Residents in Ontario, Canada
- Surprise dip in UK COVID cases baffles researchers
- Clinical classification systems and long-term outcome in mid- and late-stage Parkinson’s disease
- Understanding why superspreading drives the COVID-19 pandemic but not the H1N1 pandemic
- Early detection of COVID-19 in the UK using self-reported symptoms: a large-scale, prospective, epidemiological surveillance study
Research Reports/White Papers
Podcasts/Webinars
News/News Analysis
- Amid Covid Booster Debate, West Virginia to Check Immunity of Vaccinated Nursing Home Residents
- CDC says Americans should wear masks in nearly 70% of U.S. counties
- Unvaccinated nursing home staff in the hot seat as CDC investigates COVID-19 breakthrough cases
- Good Samaritan CEO: Our employee vaccine mandate will attract job candidates
- 'A Few Mutations Away': The Threat of a Vaccine-Proof Variant
- Nobody Wants to Live in a Nursing Home. Something’s Got to Give.
- ‘Bunk,’ hooey and other nonsense about vaccine mandates
- COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in Long-Term Care Facilities through June 2021
- FDA, under pressure, plans ‘sprint’ to accelerate review of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for full approval
- SNFs Closely Monitor Delta Variant, Some Still Hesitant on Vaccine Mandates
- Complying with state COVID-related measures can be tricky for senior living operators
- Feds approve Regeneron’s antibody therapy as COVID-19 preventive
- Florida breaks record for COVID-19 hospitalizations
- Racism in Medicine Is Alive and Well
- Long-term care presents ‘unified coalition’ to prevent raid on Provider Relief Fund
- Genesis HealthCare Mandates Company-Wide COVID-19 Vaccinations
- Physicians Eyeing Third Dose of COVID Vaccine — Despite many unknowns, healthcare professionals want reassurance, especially with Delta threat
- Lambda Variant Shows Vaccine Resistance
- Third mRNA Dose May Boost Antibody Quantity, but Not Quality