s total COVID-19 deaths; residents of nursing homes are at heightened risk for poor outcomes from SARS-CoV-2 infection due to old age and underlying conditions. These facilities were thereforerecommendedto receive the highest priority in the initial phases of vaccination, alongside front-line ...
2. Performing Facility-wide SARS-CoV-2 Testing in Nursing Homes,https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/nursing-homes-facility-wide-testing.html; 3. Interim Testing Guidance in Response to Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19 in Nursing Home Residents and Healthcare Personnel, https://www.cd...
Earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government worked with major pharmacy chains to get vaccinations to nursing home residents nationwide, but a similar program isn't in place for boosters. "My sense is that every nursing home is figuring this out on their own," Brian McGarry told...
COVID-19 is not causing as many hospitalizations and deaths as it did in the first years of the pandemic. The change is an effort to streamline recommendations so they are similar to longstanding recommendations for flu and other respiratory viruses. Many people with a runny nose, cough, or ...
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show cases of norovirus, the highly contagious stomach bug, are surging in parts of the U.S.
The new CDC guidelines say contact tracing, another hallmark during the pandemic, should be limited to hospitals and certain high-risk group-living situations such as nursing homes, and the guidelines de-emphasize the use of regular testing to screen for Covid-19, except in certain high-risk ...
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky alsotweeted new dataon the effectiveness of third vaccine doses. The data, tracking weekly case loads in nursing homes, reveals increasing breakthrough infections in two-dose vaccinated people. However, a third COVID-19 vaccine dose led to 10 times fewer positive ca...
The statement said that everyone "who wants a test does not necessarily need a test," but added that testing "may be considered for all close contacts of confirmed or probable COVID-19 patients." Limiting who should get a test "makes no sense whatsoever," Dr. Alison Galvani, an infectious...
testing. Rather than allow the free market to create testing kits, the government assigned the task to the CDC, who rolled out an inaccurate test,contaminated thousands of samples, and refused to test a patient in Northern California who turned out to be one of the first probable COVID-19 ...
Mahon cited the agency's recommendations to seek out updated COVID booster shots, as well as taking other precautions like improving ventilation, testing before gathering, or masking in high COVID areas. "So that advice doesn't change at all. And this time of year is a really good time to...