COVID-19: Caring for Patients and Communities
Although respiratory syncytial virus hospitalizations were less common last year than COVID-19 and flu in older adults, RSV disease was more severe, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Department of Health and Human Services Administration this week awarded over $500 million to prepare for clinical trial three COVID-19 vaccine candidates.
Forty-seven percent of adults say they will receive the new COVID-19 vaccine, according to Kaiser Family Foundation poll released this week.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week launched a program to provide continued free coverage of COVID-19 vaccines for the roughly 25 to 30 million uninsured and underinsured adults.
The next iteration of the COVID-19 vaccines are available, following approval this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration.
While COVID-19 patient hospitalization rates are lower this year than in previous years, experts agree there are likely more infections than captured by current surveillance systems.
Kit Bredimus, DNP, RN, CNO of Midland Memorial Hospital in Midland, Texas, discusses how he provided updates to the media about the COVID-19 crisis and how individuals could mitigate the spread.
COVID-19 hospital admissions rose 18.8% to 15,067 from Aug. 13 to Aug. 19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Residents in long-term care facilities who were infected with the BA.1 or BA.2 Omicron variant in 2022 were more likely to get COVID-19 again, compared with people in the facilities who never tested positive for the virus, according to research.
An American Hospital Association podcast discusses how St. Luke’s Health System in Boise, Idaho, provided respiratory care last fall during the triple threat of COVID-19, flu and respiratory syncytial virus.