Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19)
Hospitals and health systems remain on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic and continue to play an important role in efforts to vaccinate their patients and communities.
During an Aug. 23 White House COVID-19 virtual town hall focused on vaccinations, leaders from CommonSpirit, Northwell…
The Food and Drug Administration today granted full approval for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for individuals age 16 and over. The vaccine, which will now be marketed as Comirnaty, is the first COVID-19 vaccine to go beyond emergency use status in the United States.
The full approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) – the result of many months of work, robust data evaluation, and a thorough, comprehensive review process that has already protected more than one hundred million Americans from severe COVID-19…
On this episode, I discuss the COVID-19 pandemic and public health infrastructure with Mike Slubowski, president and CEO at Trinity Health, a Catholic health system that serves communities in 25 states.
The Food and Drug Administration granted full approval for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for individuals age 16 and over.
An estimated 72% of the two largest commercial health insurers in each state and the District of Columbia are no longer waiving patient cost sharing for COVID-19 treatment, according to an analysis released by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
AHA’s comments to OSHA on the agency’s COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard.
Patient-to-nurse staffing ratios are a static and ineffective tool that cannot guarantee a safe heath care environment, writes Mary Ann Fuchs, president of AHA’s American Organization for Nursing Leadership affiliate, responding to a recent op-ed in the New York Times.
The essay Nurses Deserve Better. So Do Their Patients is right to note the “awesome” impact that nurses have within our health care system and in the battle against Covid-19.
As of now, most school districts have opened or plan to reopen this month or next, so the return to in-person schooling is underway. Many kids — not to mention their parents — eagerly await the day.