Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19)

Throughout the COVID-19 hospitals and health systems have been forging new partnerships with stakeholders to ensure ongoing care for their patients, health care workers and communities.
UCLA Health is rolling out its COVID-19 vaccination program looking at clinical risk and using a social vulnerability model and, at the same time, reassuring people about the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines.
Learn how hospital and health system leaders such as Richard Bagley, senior vice president, chief supply chain officer, Penn State Health, are looking beyond the pandemic to address long-standing vulnerabilities in the health care supply chain during crisis situations.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced additional assistance under its public assistance program for eligible costs to safely reopen and operate certain private nonprofits in response to the COVID-19 emergency, including private nonprofit medical facilities.
All U.S. adults will become eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine by April 19, President Biden announced. That’s a couple weeks sooner than the May 1 target he announced last month.
Johnson & Johnson will soon start testing its COVID-19 vaccine candidate in U.S. adolescents, the company announced.
In 2019, 1 in 5 women suffered from a mental health disorder. Now, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, even more women are reporting increases in challenges associated with mental illness as they continue to take on responsibilities they had not been prepared for. 
AHA’s Hospital Community Collaborative, now in its second year, is seeking hospitals and community groups for its 2021 cohort to explore community-level health disparities caused, exacerbated or illuminated by COVID-19. 
The Food and Drug Administration authorized several SARS-CoV-2 serial screening tests for asymptomatic individuals.