Medicare regulators will issue a preliminary decision by Wednesday on whether to approve coverage of Aduhelm.
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Medicare regulators will issue a preliminary decision by Wednesday on whether to approve coverage of Aduhelm.
A major healthcare provider in Arizona will allow employees who are experiencing mild COVID-19 symptoms or are asymptomatic to keep working at its hospitals and facilities.
Because of the omicron variant’s rapid spread in Maricopa County and in anticipation of a continued increase, Dignity Health officials said they have enacted the “third tier” of the federal guidelines for health care workers with the coronavirus.
“These guidelines allow COVID-19 positive healthcare personnel who are asymptomatic or improving with mild symptoms to work without a quarantine period,” Dignity Health officials said in a statement. “We are doing everything we can to ensure our employees can safely return to work while protecting our patients and staff from the transmissibility of COVID-19.”
A memo sent to Dignity Health staff members said those who are infected with coronavirus and feel well enough to work may request clearance to work from their manager.
However, those employees would need to wear an N-95 mask for 10 days after they tested positive.
The omicron variant spreads even more easily than other coronavirus strains, and has already become dominant in many countries. It also more easily infects those who have been vaccinated or had previously been infected by prior versions of the virus.
Though early studies show omicron is less likely to cause severe illness and hospitalization than the previous delta variant, hospitals statewide remain crowded.
Health officials in Arizona on Sunday reported 69 more deaths from COVID-19 as the omicron variant continued to spread.
The state also reported 15,850 additional confirmed infections.
That followed Saturday’s total of 88 deaths and 16,504 cases, the most Arizona cases reported in one day in a year.
The state has tallied less than 1.5 million cases and under 25,000 deaths during the pandemic.
According to Johns Hopkins University data, Arizona’s seven-day rolling average of daily new cases tripled over the past two weeks from 2,945.6 on Dec. 23 to 9,091.6 on Thursday.
The state’s rolling average of daily deaths dropped from 60.9 to 55.3 during the same period.
The current explosion of omicron-fueled coronavirus infections in the U.S. is causing a breakdown in basic functions and services — the latest illustration of how COVID-19 keeps upending life more than two years into the pandemic.
Despite high public demand for tests, it will still be several more weeks before testing kits are available to be shipped, White House officials say.
New Hampshire has reached a $21.1 million settlement with Centene over the inaccurate reporting of pharmacy benefit services cost, the attorney general's office said Friday.
Tripling the pace of booster vaccinations could reduce COVID-19 hospitalizations by more than 35% and deaths by nearly 30%.
Oregon hospitals have new interim guidelines to help them determine which patients should get lifesaving care if the current COVID-19 surge forces them to choose between people because of a lack of beds, staff or critical medical equipment.