With some health care workers still refusing to be immunized, medical centers around the country are requiring shots as cases climb once again.
More and more hospitals and major health systems are requiring employees to get the Covid-19 vaccine, citing rising caseloads fueled by the Delta variant and stubbornly low vaccination rates in their communities and even within their work force.
Many hospitals say their efforts to immunize...
Brandon Will had a life plan: go to grad school for creative writing in New York City and eventually get a job in publishing. But then his mother, Janice, came to visit. She had lost a “startling” amount of weight, he said. At 62, she wanted to take cabs for short distances. He noticed a stiffness in her facial muscles that made it difficult for her to express emotion. “I’d be taking selfies and she couldn’t...
President Joe Biden celebrated the second July Fourth holiday of the coronavirus pandemic by declaring that “America is coming back together.”.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling a vaccination “the most patriotic thing you can do,” President Joe Biden on Sunday mixed the nation’s birthday party with a celebration of freedom from the worst of the pandemic. He tempered the strides against COVID-19 with a...
The long-term services and supports sector must reimagine the direct care workforce, making employees feel more valued, to reduce turnover and improve recruitment, according to a new analysis.
“Direct care professionals face many challenges and are not valued for their essential role to care for older adults and people with disabilities,” explained authors Robyn Stone and Natasha Bryant, with LeadingAge’s LTSS...
Deeply engrained structural racism within the healthcare system has harmed historically marginalized people for centuries. Recognizing their role in this, the largest medical association in the United States pledges to help eradicate inequity in medicine. We asked four experts for their opinion on how to do this in a meaningful way.
The American Medical Association (AMA), one of the largest and most influential medical associations in...
The United States is one of the small number of countries where coronavirus vaccinations are widely available.
“All over the world people are desperate to get a shot that every American can get at their neighborhood drugstore,” President Biden said on Wednesday.
But one group of Americans feels left behind: expatriates....
With more than one-third of U.S. adults now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, there's growing optimism on many fronts. A majority of states have either lifted health-related restrictions or have announced target dates for doing so.
Already, many clinicians and health policy experts are thinking about what the post-pandemic world will look like.
COVID-19 demonstrated that even in a behemoth industry like health...
NEW YORK (AP) — Medical student Natty Jumreornvong has a vaccine and protective gear to shield her from the coronavirus. But she couldn’t avoid exposure to the anti-Asian bigotry that pulsed to the surface after the pathogen was first identified in China.
Psychiatry patients have called her by a racist slur for the disease, she said. A bystander spat at the Thai-born student to “go back to China” as she...
Hiring was much weaker than expected in April. Wall Street thinks it’s a blip, but there could be much deeper rethinking of what jobs are needed and what workers want to do on a daily basis.
From Wall Street to the White House, expectations were high for a hiring surge in April with potentially a million Americans returning to work. Instead, the world learned Friday that just 266,000 jobs were added, a...
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(CNN) America's vaccination pace is slowing, putting President Joe Biden's pledge for normality from July 4 in jeopardy.
To tackle the threat, Biden on Tuesday announced a strategic shift from mass vaccination drives to utilizing more...
President Joe Biden’s call for authorizing Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices has energized Democrats on a politically popular idea they’ve been pushing for nearly 20 years only to encounter frustration
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden ’s call for authorizing Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices has energized Democrats on a politically popular idea they've been...
Update: On April 26th, the White House announced that it will share 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine with other nations around the world after quality control inspections by the FDA.
This week, global health experts took to social media to ask the U.S. government why it hasn’t offered its stockpile of AstraZeneca vaccines to India. There are currently tens of millions of unused...