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10/07/2021
AMDA - The Society for PALTC Medicine | October 6
COMMERCIAL: COVID-19 Update
Headlines:
Journal Articles/Preprints
- JAMDA: Absence of COVID-19 Disease Among Chronically Ventilated Nursing Home Patients.
- JAMDA: Addressing Endemic COVID-19 with High Vaccination Success: Lessons from Singapore
- JAMDA: COVID-19 and proximal femur fracture in older adults – A lethal combination? An analysis of the Registry for Geriatric Trauma (ATR-DGU)
- Disproportionate increases in schizophrenia diagnoses among Black nursing home residents with ADRD
- REGEN-COV Antibody Combination and Outcomes in Outpatients with Covid-19
- MMWR: Safety Monitoring of an Additional Dose of COVID-19 Vaccine — United States, August 12–September 19, 2021
- US Emergency Department Visits Attributed to Medication Harms, 2017-2019
- JAMDA: Staffing and protective equipment access mitigated COVID-19 Penetration and Spread in US nursing homes during the Third Surge
- Genetic and phenotypic analysis of the causal relationship between aging and COVID-19
Research Reports/White Papers
- Nursing Homes Experienced Steeper Increase In COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in August 2021 Than the Rest of the Country
- Cancer Patients on Chemotherapy Likely Not Fully Protected by COVID-19 Vaccine, Study Finds
News/News Analysis
- Where is the Diversity in Long-Term Care Leadership?
- CMS ‘getting pretty close’ to releasing details of COVID-19 vaccination mandate
- FDA may authorize half-dose booster of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine
- Merck to seek emergency use for COVID-19 antiviral pill that cuts severe outcomes by 50 percent
- 400 percent resurgence of COVID deaths affirms nursing homes’ ongoing dangers
- AHCA Partners With Exponent, MatrixCare on New Effort to Track COVID-19 and Future Threats to Nursing Homes
- Religious exemptions: COVID-19 vaccination about ‘good of community,’ not just individual rights
- Pay, vaccine mandates top reasons for worker retention challenges: LeadingAge survey
- Messy, incomplete U.S. data hobbles pandemic response
