November 20, 2020
(STAT News) – When the federal government started handing out a newly authorized Covid-19 treatment last week, some hospitals weren’t sure they should accept their share. On the surface, it sounded crazy. Decline a medication that might keep patients from … Read More
November 20, 2020
(STAT News) – Hospitals in at least 25 states are critically short of nurses, doctors, and other staff as coronavirus cases surge across the United States, according to the industry’s trade association and a tally conducted by STAT. The situation … Read More
November 20, 2020
(Associated Press) – What does emergency use of a COVID-19 vaccine mean? It’s when regulators allow shots to be given to certain people while studies of safety and effectiveness are ongoing. Before any vaccine is permitted in the U.S., it … Read More
November 20, 2020
(The Atlantic) – In the past two weeks, the hospital had to convert an entire building into a COVID-19 tower, from the top down. It now has 10 COVID-19 units, each taking up an entire hospital floor. Three of the … Read More
November 20, 2020
(ABC News) – Pfizer and partner BioNTech announced they will submit a request on Friday to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for emergency use authorization of their COVID-19 vaccine candidate. The submission, which is based on a vaccine efficacy … Read More
November 19, 2020
(Newsweek) – Europe recorded over three times as many COVID-19 deaths on Thursday than the U.S., as coronavirus cases continued to surge globally. Last week, Europe recorded over 29,000 new deaths, said Hans Henri P. Kluge, the World Health Organization’s … Read More
November 19, 2020
(Associated Press) – As more than 90,000 of the nation’s long-term care residents have died in a pandemic that has pushed staffs to the limit, advocates for the elderly say a tandem wave of death separate from the virus has … Read More
November 19, 2020
(Associated Press) – Ethiopia could hardly bear another emergency, even before a deadly conflict exploded in its northern Tigray region this month. Now, tens of thousands of refugees are fleeing into Sudan, and food and fuel are running desperately low … Read More
November 18, 2020
(The Atlantic) – Now new data released by the Department of Health and Human Services quantify the crisis in America’s hospitals in closer detail. At The Atlantic’s request, HHS provided data on the number of hospitals experiencing staffing shortages. From … Read More
November 18, 2020
(The New York Times) – Industry analysts and company executives are optimistic that hundreds of millions of doses will be made by next spring. But the companies — backed with billions of dollars in federal money — will have to … Read More
