Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resources and Special Communications

This week, the American Hospital Association (AHA) informed Congressional leaders of the Association’s support for legislation to ease hospital staff shortages.

The pandemic has had “negative, positive and as-yet-unknown effects” on nurses, according to nurse leaders who shared their insights in a recent article in U.S. News & World Report.

AHA urges the Department of Health and Human Services to extend the deadline for hospitals and other health care providers to use their COVID-19 Provider Relief Fund payments until the end of the public health emergency.

On May 5, Dr. James Madara, the AMA’s chief executive officer and executive vice president spoke with AHA’s Rick Pollack, president and chief executive officer, about prioritizing medical justice to address health equity, health care post-pandemic and strategies to increase the numbers of people vaccinated against COVID-19.

The American Hospital Association urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to apply its recently increased Medicare payment rates for COVID-19 vaccine administration services retroactively.

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To help health care personnel support COVID-19 vaccination efforts, the AHA has assembled a range of communications resources on a single webpage for easy access.

Though the COVID-19 pandemic has been a fast-evolving situation, the team at UT Southwestern Medical Center, based in Dallas, has been sharing important and useful information with its communities every step of the way. Now it’s focused on vaccination — offering “what to know” about COVID-19 vaccines and the science behind them, blogs by clinicians, FAQs and other key resources.

As New York City continues to expand vaccine eligibility, NYC Health + Hospitals has been a leader in the race to vaccinate New Yorkers.

Health systems like Johns Hopkins Medicine are demonstrating that by bringing together the right partners, proactively getting information to communities and

Major Headlines, the “Good Stuff”, US Snapshots, US Vaccinations, US Variant Cases, key Highlights, as well as key Statistics, Vaccine and Treatment information, US Restrictions and the Back to Normal Index related to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

On a recent Saturday in South Philadelphia, Tyrique Glasgow volunteered to be a patient ambassador to spread the word about a one-day COVID-19 vaccination clinic being run by Penn Medicine and Mercy Catholic Medical Center in a local gym.

A Weekend Recap of Headlines and Highlights, along with US Snapshots, US Vaccinations, US Variants, Outbreak Statistics, Vaccine and Treatment information, US Restrictions and the US Back-to-Normal Index related to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

A Daily Recap of major Headlines, the “Good Stuff”, US Snapshots, US Vaccinations, US Variant Cases, key Highlights, as well as key Statistics, Vaccine and Treatment information, US Restrictions and the Back to Normal Index related to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

This week, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it will begin a Phase 3 clinical trial, dubbed ACTIV-6, to evaluate whether seven drugs approved for other conditions

Congressional committees recently held multiple hearings focused on COVID-19, the opioid epidemic, mental health, and other public health issues.

The United States will spend $1.7 billion to track variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. These variants, which are more transmissible than the coronavirus that originally infected North

Pregnant women who enrolled in Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine trials were no more likely than their unvaccinated, pre-pandemic counterparts

Two ICU nurses in Sao Carlos, Brazil, developed a novel approach to comforting COVID-19 patients, which is spreading throughout their small city.