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New York Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker on Friday defended the state's decision in March to force nursing homes to admit hospital residents with the coronavirus, blaming staff for spreading the virus.The guideline, enacted on March…

It wasn't long before Keith Reed, an assistant health commissioner in Oklahoma, discovered a major logistical problem with the introduction of state vaccination. Week after week, Oklahoma allocated thousands of valuable doses to a federal…

A view of a patient being rolled out of a nursing home in Flushing Queens New York USA during the coronavirus pandemic on April 22, 2020.John Nacion | NurPhoto | Getty ImagesThe New York Department of Health reported Covid-19 deaths in…

An unusual experiment to prevent nursing home employees and residents from being infected with the coronavirus is successful, drug manufacturer Eli Lilly announced on Thursday.A drug containing monoclonal antibodies - laboratory-bred virus…

Dr. Kuppalli and others have expressed some discomfort about being first to get the vaccine while so many others in the US and beyond are lining up for their own safety shot. "I don't think guilt is the right word," she said. The tier…

CVS and Walgreens have created paper and digital informed consent forms that nursing homes can use. Approval must be given in advance; The pharmacies need to know how many doses of the vaccine that need to be kept very cold to bring.There…