After nearly a year in lockdown, nursing home residents can participate in indoor visitation, communal dining and group activities — with exceptions, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday.
Advisers to the CDC have released new clinical guidance and education regarding a rare blood clotting condition reported after vaccination.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday released new guidance that allows fully vaccinated nursing home residents to resume dining activities and in-room visits without masking or social distancing restrictions.
Now that vaccinators are encouraged to resume giving Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 shot, nursing home stakeholders are questioning what effect the recent pause will have on vaccine uptake in a wary population.
Long-term care pharmacies can begin immediately using Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine again after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration lifted a pause on the shots Friday evening.
The need for infection preventionists has never been greater, but 13 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, long-term care providers still remain in the dark as to who will fit the federal government’s final criteria.
A new report on contact tracing in rural Illinois illustrates how a single community gathering can lead directly to infections in a skilled nursing facility, and the challenges associated with reopening to public events.
The new CDC number reflects adults aged 65 years and older who have received at least one vaccine dose. One state takes the top spot nationwide, with nearly 90% of first shots completed in this age group.
Virtual infection prevention and control assessments reached four times as many skilled nursing facilities as onsite visits in the same timeframe, according to a study in 92 SNFs early in the pandemic.
Hospitalizations are down for the U.S. population overall, and older Americans account for an increasingly smaller proportion of admissions, according to the latest weekly data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
