CDC’s social media toolkit tackles COVID-19 vaccination education
By
Alicia Lasek
Jan 11, 2021
LTC providers can use a new set of pre-written social media messages and digital images to encourage staff and residents to learn more about COVID-19 vaccine safety and benefits.
WHO calls end to COVID-19 global health emergency
By
Alicia Lasek
May 08, 2023
It is time for the international community to recognize COVID-19 as an endemic disease and end the pandemic health emergency, the World Health Organization announced Friday.
Clinical briefs for Thursday, April 7
By
Amy Novotney
Apr 07, 2022
Virtual dementia care program leads to 60% reduction in hospital admissions: study … Biden Administration accelerates effort to prevent, detect and treat Long COVID … BA.2 now behind 72% of all US...
Clinical briefs for Monday, Oct. 30
By
Kristen Fischer
Oct 27, 2023
Statin may improve outcomes, boost survival in people with severe COVID … Fasting can help people with diabetes lose weight … Resistance training boosts performance in women with sarcopenia … Drug...
Clinical briefs for Wed, Oct. 4
By
Kristen Fischer
Oct 04, 2023
Some injections don’t work for osteoarthritis in hands … Efforts to reduce generic, biosimilar drug prices largely lacking, report finds … Study to gauge lifestyle factors, brain health … Researchers...
Clinical briefs for Friday, Feb. 18
By
Amy Novotney
Feb 18, 2022
CDC reforming COVID-19 guidance … Nearly three-quarters of the U.S. now estimated to be immune to omicron variant … Brain synapse destruction culprit behind Alzheimer’s cognitive decline … Treatment...
New isolation guidance for COVID-19 excludes nursing homes
By
Liza Berger
Mar 01, 2024
People with COVID-19 no longer have to isolate for five days, per new guidance issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday.
Online tool helps take guesswork out of COVID-19 testing in long-term care facilities
By
Alicia Lasek
Jul 23, 2021
The LTCF Simulation dashboard uses facility and community data — such as proposed test schedules, number of shift workers, vaccination rates and community case prevalence — to help LTC administrators...
New wave of flu cases, COVID-19 hospitalizations hits U.S., impacting seniors
By
Alicia Lasek
Dec 06, 2022
Flu activity was the highest in a decade last week and hospitalizations for three respiratory viruses are straining healthcare systems, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said on Monday.
New data: With no booster, nursing home residents face 30 percent higher COVID risk
By
Alicia Lasek
Jan 29, 2023
Nursing home residents who have received the COVID-19 bivalent booster shot are 30% to 50% less likely to become infected with SARS-CoV-2 than their fellow residents who haven’t gotten boosted, the...