An important medical research blog called COVEXIT recently reported that the concept of outpatient home care for COVID-19 now progresses in America with a forthcoming hearing scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 19 at 10:00 a.m. Sponsored by the Committee on Home Security...
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Rapid Rise Again in COVID-19-related Nursing Home Cases & Deaths
Although the Trump Administration has an ongoing effort to protect vulnerable elderly residents in long-term care facilities such as nursing homes from the ravages of COVID-19, the latest surge is once again disproportionately impacting the high risk population. A...
KU Medical Center to Lead Interactive Network to Improve Care at Nursing Homes
Skilled-nursing facilities have been an unfortunate epicenter of death by COVID-19 in America and Canada. By Sep. 01, already 70,000 long-term care facility residents died from COVID-19. Now the University of Kansas Medical Center (KU Medical Center) announces its...
NYU Langone & NIA’s Impact Collaboratory Commence Long-Term Care COVID-19 Antibody Study
NYU Langone has just embarked on a small and targeted yet critically important pilot study. The study team now investigates new protocols to reduce the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infections in long-term care facilities (e.g., nursing homes, et al.) housing patients with...
A Study Comparing COVID-19 Infection & Death Rates in Elderly, Long -Term Care Facilities: British Columbia Offers a Model
A group of Canada-based health researchers investigated why the COVID-19 death rate associated with long-term care (e.g. nursing homes) was higher in Ontario than British Columbia—both Canadian provinces. The answer probably won’t surprise too many but came down to...
Are Unionized Nursing Homes Safer During the COVID-19 Pandemic? GWU Research Suggests So in New York State
George Washington University (GWU) researchers led by Professor Adam Dean found in a study that nursing homes where employees were unionized had a 30% lower COVID-19 mortality rate than those without unionized healthcare worker staff. Apparently, if this report is...
Lilly & NIAID Step-Up and Commence Blaze-2 Phase 3 Trial to Intervene and Help Save More Elderly in LTC Facilities
Our elderly have been devastated by SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19, and this represents an unacceptable loss of lives for parents and grandparents. The death rates have been unacceptable and finally there's an intensification of effort by Big Pharma and the NIH...
Toronto Investigators Prepare Study of Favipiravir use in Long-Term Care Facilities to Protect Elderly from COVID-19
That horrific reality that long-term care facilities (nursing homes) have become the scene of mass death counters every purported societal value to care and protect those most vulnerable—our elderly. In Canada, over 80% of the deaths due to the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen...
The Texas Nursing Home COVID-19 Outbreak: Did the Medical Director Launch a Questionable Observation Study or Practice Good Crisis Medicine?
A physician and medical director of a Texas nursing home is under scrutiny as the call was made to administer hydroxychloroquine to many elderly COVID-19 patients after an outbreak nearly two weeks ago. Known as the Resort at Texas City, the physician, Robin...