COVID-19: Caring for Patients and Communities
The National Institutes of Health awarded $12 million to non-profit research institution RTI International for outreach and engagement efforts in ethnic and racial minority communities that have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Department of Health and Human Services released its strategy for the public distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine. HHS said that it developed the strategy in coordination with the Department of Defense and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Learn how Opelousas General Health System (OGHS), the main health care provider in the rural area of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, rapidly enacted a communications and response system to address gaps in community needs and support during COVID-19.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House of Representatives are mobilizing around a new COVID-19 relief proposal.
The AHA and Aligning for Health Sept. 24 at 3 p.m. ET will host a webinar detailing how hospitals and health systems have been working to better identify and address health, social and community needs.
A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study is revealing the extent to which adults are bypassing medical care because of their COVID-19-related concerns.
The National Institutes of Health announced the launch of two of three planned, worldwide phase 3 clinical trials of varying types of blood thinners to treat adults with COVID-19.
A roughly $500 billion COVID-19 relief package failed to advance in the Senate as it fell short of receiving the necessary 60 votes.
An updated set of Current Procedural Terminology codes includes two for reporting medical services necessitated during the COVID-19 pandemic public health response.
The AHA urged the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to adopt a unified set of guidelines to account for the variables associated with all issues of the eventual allocation of COVID-19 vaccine allocation.