Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19)

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.
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.
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.
During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, UCHealth in Aurora, Colo., admitted over one-third of the state's patients who tested positive for the disease.