Rollout of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine saved lives, healthcare dollars
May 19, 2022
A model shows the vaccine tied to the prevention of 110,000 deaths and a resulting $30.4 billion direct healthcare cost savings.
Big senior living stories of 2021
By
Lois A. Bowers
Dec 22, 2021
2021 began with the hope that the new COVID-19 vaccine being rolled out to assisted living communities and nursing homes would help control a pandemic that had caused so much illness, death, loneliness,...
Multidose BCG protects against COVID-19 in at-risk individuals
Aug 16, 2022
An efficacy of 92% was found among at-risk COVID-19-unvaccinated individuals with type 1 diabetes.
Supreme Court will not hear challenge to healthcare worker vaccine mandate
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 03, 2022
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a legal challenge to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services COVID-19 vaccination mandate for healthcare workers at nursing homes and other facilities...
Some senior living operators add vaccine access to marketing toolkits to help rebuild occupancy
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 25, 2021
As the COVID-19 pandemic sends occupancy rates plummeting in senior living communities, some operators are adding vaccine access to their marketing toolbox in a bid to entice prospective residents and...
Pfizer asks FDA to approve booster shots for all U.S. adults
Nov 10, 2021
With its application, the company included early results of a study that involved 10,000 people.
White House calls out critics of door-to-door vaccine efforts
By
Diane Eastabrook
Jul 13, 2021
The Biden administration has come out swinging against governors and other state officials who have criticized the administration’s proposed door-to-door campaign to get Americans vaccinated.
Fourth dose of BNT162b2 prevents severe COVID-19 in nursing home residents
Jun 27, 2022
Substantial protection against hospitalizations and deaths seen among nursing home residents during the omicron surge.
In 11 states, seniors’ low vaccination rates a ‘powder keg’ for new cases
Jun 21, 2021
In states where vaccination rates are low, seniors who have not gotten a shot pose a public health risk as social-distancing restrictions are stripped away.
COVID-19 vaccine booster dose cuts infection in those 60 and older
Sep 17, 2021
A large Israeli study shows a reduction in confirmed infection and severe illness among adults 60 years of age and older.