The Biden administration plans to use the Defense Production Act to ramp up manufacturing of safety measures.  This will increase supplies. Reduce dependence on foreign suppliers. COVID-19 vaccines, surgical gloves and at-home testing kits need to be available. The Biden administration will use the DPA to contract for 60 million at-home tests. This news comes

Refusals WAMU reported the problems at SavaSeniorCare’s Brian Center Health & Retirement/Cabarrus nursing home. Poor infection control led to a coronavirus outbreak killing at least 10 residents. The vaccine distribution at the facility has been a failure as well.  Many employees refuse to take the vaccine. The lack of education and training about the vaccine

American Health Care Association is the nation’s largest nursing home association. President and CEO Mark Parkinson is the leader. He assumes that all U.S. nursing home residents will be vaccinated by the March 1 target date.  This should be able to be done now that Biden has implemented a plan.  A Centers for Disease Control

The FDA approved an Emergency Use Authorization for bamlanivimab (BAM) to treat COVID-19 in high risk patients. Eli Lilly released new study results that indicate the antibody therapy reduced the risk to nursing home residents. These facilities account for 40% of all COVID-related deaths in the United States. The study showed that residents given bamlanivimab saw

McMaster Reallocates Gov. Henry McMaster demanded DHEC reallocate at least 37,800 vaccines from long term care facilities to other providers. McMaster claims the state’s long term care facilities have a surplus. Many states report that nursing home employees refuse the opportunity to get a vaccine shot.  Many nursing homes are still waiting for vaccines. Experts