Covid-19 Vax: ACIP Votes HCPs, Long-Term Patients Should Get First Dibs
Speeded-up timeline for Pfizer, Moderna vaccines spurs ACIP action The CDC’s Advisory...
Practice Impact
Thousands of Doctors’ Offices Buckle Under Financial Stress of COVID
Across the nation, primary care practices that were already struggling are closing, victims of the pandemic’s financial fallout. And this is reducing access to health care, especially in rural and other regions already short on doctors.
How Pharma Money Colors Operation Warp Speed’s Quest to Defeat COVID
A Trump administration maneuver allows executives who are leading the federal effort to keep investments in drug companies that would benefit from the pandemic response.
How COVID-19 Highlights the Uncertainty of Medical Testing
Widespread COVID testing has revealed uncomfortable truths about medical tests: A test result is rarely a definitive answer, but instead a single clue. A result may be falsely positive or negative, or it may show an abnormality that doesn’t matter. And as COVID testing has made too clear, even an accurate, meaningful result is useless unless it’s acted on appropriately.
Amid COVID and Racial Unrest, Black Churches Put Faith in Mental Health Care
Black Americans are less likely to receive mental health treatment than the overall population. But as needs soar this year, faith leaders are tapping health professionals to share coping skills churchgoers and the community can use immediately.
Where COVID Is on the Menu: Failed Contact Tracing Leaves Diners in the Dark
State and local public health officials are sure that bars and restaurants are spreading COVID. But they don’t always have much concrete evidence to support their convictions.
Diabetic Retinopathy May Up Risk for COVID-19 Intubation
TUESDAY, Dec. 1, 2020 (HealthDay News) — For patients with diabetes hospitalized with...
Chilblain-Like Lesions During COVID-19 Tied to Type I Interferonopathy
TUESDAY, Dec. 1, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Patients presenting with chilblain-like lesions...
Review: Thromboembolism Risk High in COVID-19 Patients
TUESDAY, Dec. 1, 2020 (HealthDay News) — The rate of thromboembolism is high in patients...
Moderna Files for EUA for Covid-19 Vaccine
If approved, first injections could be given before the holidays Moderna, Inc. announced it is...
COVID-19 Outcomes Not Improved With Convalescent Plasma
MONDAY, Nov. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) — For adults with severe COVID-19 pneumonia, no...
Racial Disparity Seen in COVID-19 Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome
MONDAY, Nov. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children...
