COVID-19: CDC, FDA and CMS Guidance

This page includes AHA Today stories and other AHA content on coronavirus COVID-19 guidance from the CDC, FDA, and CMS.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, pediatricians, infectious-disease specialists and epidemiologists have noticed an uptick in viral infections, especially in the
Updated guidance on evaluating and caring for patients with post-COVID conditions is now available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a COVID-19 Viral Testing Tool last week to help health care providers and individuals
An examination of COVID-19 vaccination rates among nearly 136,000 pregnant women between Dec. 14, 2020, and May 8, 2021, revealed rates were lowest among
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging emergency departments (EDs) and urgent care settings to administer COVID-19 vaccinations upon patient...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week emphasized that its new masking recommendations for people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 do not apply to health care settings.
This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released an interim final rule requiring long-term care facilities in the Medicare and Medicaid programs
Pregnant women who enrolled in Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine trials were no more likely than their unvaccinated, pre-pandemic counterparts
With nearly 300 million U.S. made N95 or equivalent respirators sitting in warehouses, the
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use authorization for the Tiger Tech COVID Plus Monitor, the first machine learning-based COVID-19