COVID-19: Vaccines and Therapeutics
For nearly two years, our nation’s physicians, nurses and other health care professionals have seen firsthand the tragic impact of COVID-19 on the patients and colleagues they have lost as well as those suffering from the virus’ long-term effects and the families and loved ones left behind.
Clinicians at Sanford Health in South Dakota are connecting with their community via digital platforms to address concerns about the COVID-19 omicron variant.
The AHA has released new resources that hospitals and health systems can use to encourage communities to stay healthy and protect themselves against the flu and COVID-19.
Pfizer said it has submitted a supplemental biologics license application for its COVID-19 vaccine, asking that the Food and Drug Administration expand approval to include individuals age 12 to 15.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention endorsed updated recommendations expressing a clinical preference for individuals to receive an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine over Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine, as proposed by the agency’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
The AHA, American Medical Association and American Nurses Association shared the following statement with the media calling for widespread vaccinations and booster shots during the holiday season as the omicron variant spreads.
The federal government asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the Missouri and Louisiana district court preliminary injunctions that have put the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services vaccine mandate on hold in 24 states.
The U.S. COVID-19 Vaccination Program has helped avert an estimated 35.9 million infections, 10.3 million hospitalizations and 1.1 million deaths as of Nov. 30, according to an analysis released by the Commonwealth Fund.
The Food and Drug Administration updated its fact sheets for providers and recipients and caregivers for the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, with each revised document outlining a contraindication for the vaccine’s administration to individuals with histories of thrombosis with…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a ruling ordering the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services vaccine mandate rule to resume in about half of the country while saying 24 states are not subject to the mandate.