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Pregnant, Lactating People May Get COVID-19 Vaccine, New Guidelines Say

Bloomberg Law (12/14, Baumann, Subscription Publication) reports, “Pregnant and lactating people can get the Covid-19 vaccine, according to new federal and medical guidelines answering a lingering question as the Pfizer Inc. shot rolls out in the U.S. thi...

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ICU Nurse Receives First COVID-19 Vaccine Shot At Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Reuters (12/14, O'Brien) reports, “New York State began on Monday administering COVID-19 vaccine to health care workers, marking a pivotal turn in the nation’s effort to curb the deadly virus.” According to Governor Andrew Cuomo, “Intensive Care Unit nurs...

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US Healthcare Spending Declining Due To COVID-19 Pandemic, Report Indicates

The RevCycle Intelligence (12/14, LaPointe) reports, “Healthcare spending in the US is declining for the first time in years because of the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report from the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker.” The report...

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US Income-Related Health Disparities Higher Than Other Similarly Wealthy Nations, Report Suggests

PatientEngagementHIT (12/14, Heath) reports the US “has the worst income-related health disparities than any other similarly wealthy nation, according to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund published in Health Affairs.” The recent “report, which looke...

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Federal Officials Expect 100M People In US To Be Fully Immunized Against COVID-19 By End Of March

Modern Healthcare (12/14, Kacik, Subscription Publication) reports, “Federal officials expect 100 million Americans to be fully immunized from COVID-19 by the end of March, authorities said Monday, noting that they are on track to have the capacity to imm...

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COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact On Mental Health Of Pregnant People Discussed

The New York Times (12/14, Gammon) reports on the experiences of pregnant people amid the COVID-19 pandemic, adding “prolonged stress can have real consequences on pregnant people even outside of a pandemic and has been tied to low birthweight, changes in...

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Hospitals Across US Struggling With How To Distribute First COVID-19 Vaccines

Kaiser Health News (12/14, Aleccia) reports that even as the FDA “engaged in intense deliberations ahead of Friday’s authorization of the Pfizer and BioNTech COVID vaccine, and days before the initial 6.4 million doses were to be released, hospitals acros...

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Roche Announces New SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Test

Reuters (12/11, Koltrowitz) reported that on Friday, Roche announced that it had “launched a laboratory SARS-CoV-2 antigen test to support high-volume testing of suspected COVID-19 patients.” Called “the Elecsys SARS-CoV-2 antigen test,” it “is an automat...

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Self-Collected Saliva Test Detects COVID-19 At Similar Rates As Nasal Swab Administered By Healthcare Worker, Research Indicates

HealthDay (12/11) reported, “A self-collected saliva sample is as good at detecting COVID-19 as a nasal swab administered by a health care worker – without exposing medical staff to the virus while collecting the sample,” according to research published i...

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AI Test Can Screen Patients In The ED For COVID-19 Within One Hour, Study Indicates

Healthcare IT News (12/12, Lovell) reported an AI test developed by the University of Oxford “has been shown to be able to rapidly screen patients arriving in emergency departments [ED] for COVID-19, using clinical information routinely available within t...

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FDA Grants Emergency Use Authorization To Coronavirus Vaccine

The Washington Post (12/11, A1, McGinley, Johnson, Dawsey) reported that the FDA “on Friday gave emergency use authorization to the nation’s first coronavirus vaccine, launching what scientists hope will be a critical counteroffensive against a pathogen t...

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EU Recommends Changing Terms For Use Of Remdesivir For Treatment Of Patients With COVID-19

Reuters (12/11) reported, “Europe’s drugs regulator on Friday recommended changing some terms of the conditional approval given to antiviral drug remdesivir as a COVID-19 treatment,” following last month’s statement by the World Health Organization that i...

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US Public Health Officials Reportedly Relieved As “Twindemic” Appears Unlikely With Low Flu Activity

The New York Times (12/13, McNeil, Jr.) reports that despite the current “surge of Covid-19 cases and deaths in the United States...one bit of good news is emerging this winter: It looks unlikely that the country will endure a ‘twindemic’ of both flu and...

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Factors Identified With Higher Risk Of Severe COVID-19 For Patients With IBD

MedPage Today (12/12, Walsh) reported on a study finding that “factors that were associated with a severe course of COVID-19 among patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) included older age [60+], the presence of comorbidities, and treatment with c...

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Low LDL Levels, Elevated Triglycerides May Be Tied To Increased Mortality Risk Among Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19, Research Suggests

Healio (12/11, Buzby) reported, “Among patients hospitalized with COVID-19, LDL level below 50 mg/dL and triglycerides above 150 mg/dL were individually associated with increased odds for mortality, according to a presentation” given during the virtual Na...

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Vitamin D Deficiency On Admission To Hospital May Be Tied To Increased Risk Of Death From COVID-19, Researchers Say

Medscape (12/11, McCall, Subscription Publication) reported “vitamin D deficiency on admission to hospital was associated with a 3.7-fold increase in the odds of dying from COVID-19, according to an observational study” published in the American Journal o...

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Researchers Identify Five Genes Linked With Severe Form Of COVID-19

Reuters (12/11, Kelland) reported research indicates “five key genes are linked with the most severe form of COVID-19,” and also points “to several existing drugs that could be repurposed to treat people who risk getting critically ill with the pandemic d...

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CDC To Study Impact Of Exposure To “Forever Chemicals” On COVID-19 Antibodies

The Hill (12/11, Frazin) reported that a CDC study “could assess the impacts that exposure to a class of cancer-linked chemicals called PFAS will have on how well people respond to COVID-19 vaccination.” CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield “said a study by t...

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Baricitinib Plus Remdesivir May Improve Recovery Time For Patients With COVID-19, Study Suggests

The New York Times (12/13, Wu) reports research suggests that adding arthritis drug “baricitinib to Covid treatment regimens that include the antiviral drug remdesivir might shave a day or more off recovery times, especially for those who are seriously si...

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FDA Advisory Panel Endorses Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine

The New York Times (12/10, A1, Thomas, Weiland, LaFraniere) reports, “Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine passed a critical milestone on Thursday when a panel of experts formally recommended that the Food and Drug Administration authorize the vaccine.” The agency “...

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Pregnant, Lactating People May Get COVID-19 Vaccine, New Guidelines Say

ICU Nurse Receives First COVID-19 Vaccine Shot At Long Island Jewish Medical Center

US Healthcare Spending Declining Due To COVID-19 Pandemic, Report Indicates

US Income-Related Health Disparities Higher Than Other Similarly Wealthy Nations, Report Suggests

Federal Officials Expect 100M People In US To Be Fully Immunized Against COVID-19 By End Of March

COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact On Mental Health Of Pregnant People Discussed

Hospitals Across US Struggling With How To Distribute First COVID-19 Vaccines

Roche Announces New SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Test

Self-Collected Saliva Test Detects COVID-19 At Similar Rates As Nasal Swab Administered By Healthcare Worker, Research Indicates

AI Test Can Screen Patients In The ED For COVID-19 Within One Hour, Study Indicates

FDA Grants Emergency Use Authorization To Coronavirus Vaccine

EU Recommends Changing Terms For Use Of Remdesivir For Treatment Of Patients With COVID-19

US Public Health Officials Reportedly Relieved As “Twindemic” Appears Unlikely With Low Flu Activity

Factors Identified With Higher Risk Of Severe COVID-19 For Patients With IBD

Low LDL Levels, Elevated Triglycerides May Be Tied To Increased Mortality Risk Among Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19, Research Suggests

Vitamin D Deficiency On Admission To Hospital May Be Tied To Increased Risk Of Death From COVID-19, Researchers Say

Researchers Identify Five Genes Linked With Severe Form Of COVID-19

CDC To Study Impact Of Exposure To “Forever Chemicals” On COVID-19 Antibodies

Baricitinib Plus Remdesivir May Improve Recovery Time For Patients With COVID-19, Study Suggests

FDA Advisory Panel Endorses Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine