Hospitals and long-term care facilities set pandemic restrictions on visitors to protect patients and staffers from infection. But supporters of these news laws say they want to ease the restrictions because the rules may have harmed patients.
After older people and nursing home residents, no group perhaps has been harder hit by the pandemic than people with diabetes. Experts hope policymakers will take notice, and finally get serious about tackling the nation's diabetes crisis.
WASHINGTON (AP) — When the end of the COVID-19 pandemic comes, it could create major disruptions for a cumbersome U.S. health care system made more generous, flexible and up-to-date technologically through a raft of temporary emergency measures.
The anti-parasitic ivermectin doesn't reduce the risk of hospitalization from COVID-19, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The jump in reported deaths, up from 33,000 last week, was due mainly to an accounting change. Countries including the United States altered how they define COVID-19 deaths.
President Biden on Wednesday will announce the rollout of a new "one-stop shop" website to help Americans access COVID-19 vaccines, tests, treatments and masks.