November 20, 2020
(Medscape) – The SARS-CoV-2 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford has shown an encouraging immune response in older adults, according to preliminary findings published in The Lancet. In phase 2 trials of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, similar safety and immunogenicity results … 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
(Medical Xpress) – A study published today in JAMA Network Open/Emergency Medicine supports evidence that older persons admitted to emergency departments (ED), and subsequently diagnosed positive for COVID-19, often present with delirium when they show no other typical COVID-19 symptoms, … Read More
November 16, 2020
(Kaiser Health News) – Many of these workers struggle with grief over the suffering they’ve witnessed, both at work and in their communities. Some, like Silvestri, have been infected with the coronavirus and recovered physically — but not emotionally. Since … Read More
November 16, 2020
(Knowable Magazine) – What angers me most, though, are the months my dad and I were separated from each other. This might even be what killed him: Analyses from the UK and US have found a spike in deaths from … Read More
November 13, 2020
(Kaiser Health News) – Workers are already emotionally drained and exhausted after staffing the front lines — and putting themselves at significant risk — since March, when the pandemic took hold. And residents are suffering deeply from losing people they … Read More
November 12, 2020
(Newsweek) – Doctors Without Borders is looking to increase its relief work in France, as the European nation confronts an ongoing surge in COVID-19 cases. The Paris-founded humanitarian aid organization (Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in French) issued a public call … Read More
November 3, 2020
(The Conversation) – Two large recent studies show that people hospitalized for COVID-19 in March were more than three times as likely to die as people hospitalized for COVID–19 in August. The first study used data from three hospitals in … Read More
October 30, 2020
(New York Times) – Theirs are the untold stories of the pandemic: the nursing home workers who reported daily to the viral hot zones, often in facilities without proper protective equipment, and who now face a fiscal crisis beyond their … Read More
October 22, 2020
(NPR) – Nursing homes have been overwhelmed by the coronavirus. Residents account for more than a quarter of all COVID-19 deaths nationwide. The industry says that facilities have also been overwhelmed by costs, and they’re asking for billions in aid … Read More
