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07/29/2022
AMDA - The Society for PALTC Medicine | July 27
COMMERCIAL: COVID-19 Update
Headlines:
New/Updated Guidance
- AMDA Launches Moving Needles Initiative
- CMS Proposed Rule to Reinstate Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Protections
- CMS Releases First-Ever Home- and Community-Based Services Quality Measure Set
Journal Articles/Preprints
- Grieving in a Pandemic
- Staffing Patterns in US Nursing Homes During COVID-19 Outbreaks
- Long COVID and symptom trajectory in a representative sample of Americans in the first year of the pandemic
- Efficacy of Antibodies and Antiviral Drugs against Omicron BA.2.12.1, BA.4, and BA.5 Subvariants
- Deprescribing Anticholinergics in Primary Care Older Adults: Experience from Two Models and Impact on a Continuous Measure of Exposure
Research Reports/White Papers
- Operation Nasal Vaccine—Lightning speed to counter COVID-19
- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People Living With Dementia and Caregivers
- Alzheimer’s Breakthrough: Genetic Link to Gut Disorders Confirmed
Podcasts/Webinars
- TOMORROW: More of a Good Thing: A Framework to Grow and Strengthen the PALTC Careforce, July 28, 2022, 4:00 PM ET
- CDC COCA: Recommendations for the Novavax COVID-19 Primary Series in Adults Ages 18 and Older, Thursday, July 28, 2022, 2:00-3:00 PM ET
News/News Analysis
- White House to launch effort to develop next generation of Covid vaccines
- Nursing home COVID-19 deaths, cases spiking, hit ‘pre-vaccine’ levels
- CMS Makes Significant Updates to ACOs But Still Leaves Nursing Homes Largely Out of Conversation
- CDC endorses Novavax’s COVID shot for primary vaccination; doses to be distributed in U.S.
- The Case For And Against a Nursing Home Industry Crisis
- Resident well-being – Is the prescription pad enough?
- Initial COVID-19 lockdown had no ‘clinically relevant negative effects’ on residents’ mood, behavior, social function: study