Some Nursing Homes Struggling to Find Takers for Leftover Vaccines
As officials push to make sure there are enough COVID-19 vaccines to inoculate the nation’s vulnerable long-term care residents, many nursing homes are facing the opposite challenge: how to make…
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NY Attorney General Releases Report on Nursing Homes’ Response to COVID-19
Attorney General Letitia James today released a report on her office’s ongoing investigations into nursing homes’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since March, Attorney General James has been investigating nursing homes…
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Fired NY Nursing Director Ordered to Comply with Investigation Into 23 COVID-19 Deaths
The nursing director fired from an Albion nursing home where 23 residents died from Covid-19 before the end of May was ordered Tuesday to comply with subpoenas issued as part…
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Multiple States Report Nursing Home Staff Reluctant to Take Vaccine
Officials in multiple states have reported that large numbers of staff in their long-term care facilities are declining the coronavirus vaccine—an issue that emerged early on in the US’s inoculation…
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NY Nursing Homes Struggle with Severe Staffing Shortages Amid COVID Outbreaks
Nursing homes in parts of New York hit worst by this winter’s COVID-19 surge say they’re struggling to find enough staff as workers have gotten sick or needed to quarantine.
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Wisconsin Allowed Drug-Stealing Nurse to Keep Practicing
A drug-addicted nurse was caught stealing pain pills meant for patients in two different Wisconsin facilities, and nearly four years later, she was still working (and still fully licensed) at…
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Florida Business Accused of Selling ‘Counterfeit’ N95 Masks
According to a federal lawsuit filed in December in Minnesota, 3M alleges Nationwide Source of Delray Beach sold more than 10,000 counterfeit N95 masks to Hennepin County Medical Center in…
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States Taking Back COVID-19 Shots Unused by Nursing Homes
Some states trying to stretch their limited supply of coronavirus vaccines are planning to reroute doses earmarked for nursing homes, as they face mounting pressure to get shots into arms…
Read More »Making Masks Smarter and Safer against COVID-19
Researchers at the University of California San Diego are developing a color-changing test strip that can be stuck on a mask and used to detect SARS-CoV-2 in a user’s breath…
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Nanoparticle Technology Holds Promise for Protecting against Many Coronavirus Strains at Once
A new coronavirus vaccine approach works by attaching many spike protein receptor-binding domains (RBDs) to an engineered protein-based nanoparticle. In mice, the vaccine induced a cross-reactive antibody response capable of…
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