January 28, 2022 National Associations Make Urgent Call for Blood Donations This week, three leading national health care associations issued a joint statement calling attention to the nation’s blood supply crisis while urging Americans to donate blood.
January 27, 2022 Child COVID-19 Cases Surpass 1.1M per Week, AAP says While the Omicron wave shows signs of peaking in regions of the country, reported cases of COVID-19 among children continue to rise, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) said this week.
January 24, 2022 What to Know about the State’s Capacity Strike Teams The Pennsylvania Department of Health today announced the deployment of its first health care “strike team” to support Grand View Health in Bucks County.
January 21, 2022 New Studies Show Power of Booster Dose Against Omicron Booster doses of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines were 90 percent effective to prevent hospitalization due to the Omicron variant, according to a new report released today.
January 20, 2022 A Primer on COVID Testing Getting tested is an important prevention measure to help reduce the spread of COVID-19. With the highly transmissible Omicron variant, the demand for tests accelerated during the winter holidays and continues this month.
January 18, 2022 The First National ‘Blood Crisis’ in the U.S. The American Red Cross recently announced the first-ever national blood crisis amid a shortage of donors due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
January 13, 2022 Supreme Court Upholds COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Health Care, Blocks Mandate for Large Employers The U.S. Supreme Court today upheld the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for facilities receiving Medicare and Medicaid funding but blocked vaccine-or-test requirements for large private companies.
January 13, 2022 U.S. Plans to Provide High-Quality Masks, 1B Rapid Tests to Americans With COVID-19 case counts reaching record rates, President Joe Biden today said his administration is preparing to provide free “high-quality” masks and ship one billion at-home rapid tests to Americans.
January 12, 2022 The Good and Bad News on Omicron New data on the severity of Omicron variant indicates that it leads to milder illness than previous variants, but a “staggering” COVID-19 caseload continues to challenge the nation’s hospitals.
January 11, 2022 UPMC, DOH Emphasize Safety, Importance of COVID-19 Vaccine during Pregnancy Only 30 to 35 percent of pregnant people in the U.S. are vaccinated against COVID-19 in the U.S., recent studies suggest.