If the new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services guidance to vaccinated people in non-healthcare settings is intended to be a nudge, it appears that the federal government still has work to do.
For dialysis recipients, antibody response lowest with Ad26.COV2.S
Oct 27, 2021
Ad26.COV2.S is the Johnson & Johnson vaccine against COVID-19. Patients receiving the attenuated adenovirus vaccine are more likely to have no seroconversion and no detectable or diminished IgG response.
COVID-19 hospitalization rates higher in unvaccinated during omicron
Sep 14, 2022
Hospitalization rates were 2.5 times higher for vaccinated patients without booster versus those with a booster.
Employer COVID-19 vaccine mandates significantly increase uptake with little effect on staffing: study
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 08, 2023
An employee mandate led to a “significant” increase in COVID-19 vaccine uptake with little effect on staffing in a multi-state network of continuing care retirement communities studied by researchers,...
Reporting COVID vaccination data to CMS would be ‘burdensome,’ ‘redundant’ for assisted living,...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 14, 2021
Requiring assisted living providers to report weekly COVID-19 vaccination data to the federal government would add administrative and cost burdens to operators already challenged by the pandemic and even...
FDA advisers weigh COVID-19 booster shots for fall
Apr 07, 2022
Vaccine experts are still guessing at what the ever-changing pandemic will bring.
Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine receives full FDA approval
Aug 23, 2021
The vaccine will now be marketed as Comirnaty and is fully approved for the prevention of COVID-19 in individuals 16 years and older.
COVID-19 cases surge again in U.S. nursing homes
Jan 18, 2022
During the week ending Jan. 9, U.S. nursing homes reported more than 32,000 cases and 645 deaths among their residents.
FDA authorizes spring COVID-19 booster for certain Americans
Apr 18, 2023
Seniors aged 65 years and older can get a booster at least four months following their first dose of the bivalent vaccine.
Long-term care, other business groups find exclusion from federal vaccine mandate process ‘disappointing’
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 30, 2021
As the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration works to develop and issue a rule for a vaccine and testing mandate announced earlier this month by President Biden, some business...