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09/28/2022
AMDA - The Society for PALTC Medicine | September 28
COMMERCIAL: COVID-19 Update
Headlines:
New/Updated Guidance
- NIH: COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines
- CDC: Interim Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Healthcare Personnel During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic
Journal Articles/Preprints
- A Bivalent Omicron-Containing Booster Vaccine against Covid-19
- JAMDA: Point-of-Care Saliva Osmolarity Testing for the Screening of Hydration in Older Adults With Hypertension
- Emotional Exhaustion Among US Health Care Workers Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2019-2021
- Determinates of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) testing practices among inpatients with diarrhea at selected acute-care hospitals in Rochester, New York, and Atlanta, Georgia, 2020–2021
- MMWR: Notes from the Field: Norovirus Outbreaks Reported Through NoroSTAT — 12 States, August 2012–July 2022
- Incidence of Severe COVID-19 Illness Following Vaccination and Booster With BNT162b2, mRNA-1273, and Ad26.COV2.S Vaccines
Research Reports/White Papers
- Study seeks to shed light on COVID-19’s impact on the brain
- Long COVID patients show signs of autoimmune disease a year after infection
- Severe COVID-19 caused by “senile” interferon response in older patients, researchers suggest
Podcasts/Webinars
- Recording of September 22, 2022, More of a Good Thing, featuring Nancy Istenes and Shauna Assadzandi
News/News Analysis
- Nursing Home Medical Directors Should Be Named Publicly, Bill Urges
- CDC: Some Nursing Homes Can End Indoor Mask Requirements
- In the label ‘adult failure to thrive,’ medicine reveals its own failures
- Biden-Harris Administration Makes More Medicare Nursing Home Ownership Data Publicly Available, Improving Identification of Multiple Facilities Under Common Ownership
- House subcommittee hearing highlights 6 actions for lawmakers, nursing homes
- Providers concerned about meeting direct care worker wage increase requirements
- Federal regulators intensify spotlight on nursing homes; providers ask for more attention
- University of Rochester Behavioral Health Program Meets Growing Demand For Nursing Home Service
