Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont announced Thursday he plans to order nursing home workers and contractors with significant contact with residents to get a vaccine booster shot by Feb. 11, noting the state's increasing COVID-19 infection rate among staff.
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice said Thursday he will ask the CDC for permission to offer a fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccines to residents 50 and older as well as to essential workers.
Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration warned healthcare providers that COVID-19 vaccine mandates violate state law and could result in fines of up to $50,000 per violation.
The physicians protested being excluded from the St. Louis-based health system in a lawsuit filed last year.
WHO officials have long cited a lag between COVID-19 case counts and deaths, with changes in the death counts often trailing about two weeks behind the evolution of case counts.
Short-staffed healthcare providers are balancing the potential of exposing employees and patients to COVID-19 and not having enough staff to care for every patient.
COVID-19 vaccines and testing boosted Walgreens store sales growth to levels not seen in more than two decades, pushing the drugstore chain well above Wall Street expectations for the first quarter.
Ciox Health is alerting patients on behalf of Baptist Memorial Health Care, Northwestern Medicine and 30 other provider customers.
Jim Hinton, who left Baylor Scott & White last week, will join the private equity firm as an operating partner.
