FDA approves omicron-specific booster shots from Pfizer, Moderna
Aug 31, 2022
The vaccine advisory panel for the CDC is set to meet Thursday and Friday to discuss who should get the updated boosters.
60 percent of ‘culture change’ nursing homes able to maintain most measures during pandemic:...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 31, 2022
Many nursing homes that were operating under the principles of culture change before the COVID-19 pandemic have been able to maintain or even expand their efforts to focus on resident quality of life and...
Employers usually can’t prohibit union-related clothing, NLRB says
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 31, 2022
Employers cannot prohibit workers from wearing union-related apparel or logos on their clothing “absent special circumstances that justify such a restriction,” the National Labor Relations Board ruled...
SARS-CoV-2 mAbs continued to be used after FDA deauthorization
Aug 30, 2022
More than 158,000 doses of bamlanivimab-etesevimab and casirivimab-imdevimab were used after deauthorization on Jan. 24, 2022.
DC Circuit rules against nurses’ union suit to speed OSHA healthcare rule
By
Alicia Lasek
Aug 30, 2022
A bid to force OSHA to quickly and permanently enact a proposed rule to protect healthcare workers against COVID-19 has been defeated.
OSHA can issue COVID-19 healthcare standard on its own timeline: courts
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 30, 2022
The federal government can issue a permanent COVID-19 healthcare standard on its own timeline after an appellate court ruled against a group of unions hoping to expedite the process.
Hospitalization rates up during omicron BA.2 predominance
Aug 29, 2022
Hospitalization rates were 3.4 times as high for unvaccinated adults compared with vaccinated adults.
Wide variance seen in booster uptake among vaccinated U.S. adults
Aug 29, 2022
Disparities were seen by geographic, sociodemographic and occupational subgroups.
Brookdale, Welltower retain top spots on ASHA 50 lists
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 29, 2022
Brentwood, TN-based Brookdale Senior Living and Toledo, OH-based real estate investment trust Welltower maintain their top spots on the 2022 American Seniors Housing Association’s ASHA 50 lists of largest...
Up to 4 million Americans out of work with long COVID
Aug 26, 2022
The numbers could translate into at least $170 billion in lost wages a year, a new report suggests.