Threats to Fauci Future President Joe Biden wants top infectious-disease expert Anthony Fauci to play a leading role in his administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Incredibly, Trump adviser Stephen Bannon called for Fauci’s beheading. Bannon caused outrage when he said that he wanted to put Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray’s “heads on pikes.”

DHEC Dashboard DHEC created a dashboard that shows the visitation status of nursing homes and assisted living facilities along with which places have active and non-active outbreak status. Conway Manor is on the active outbreak list. DHEC’s definition of an active outbreak is when one or more cases by a resident and/or staff exists within

Last week, Pfizer reported 90 percent effectiveness for their vaccine. This week, Moderna reported preliminary data on another successful vaccine that offers hope. Both use a synthetic version of coronavirus genetic material. This genetic material are messenger RNA or mRNA. They program a person’s cells to produce copies of the virus which alarms the immune

Test Results JAMA Internal Medicine published a research letter showing that nursing homes fail to provide quick effective tests for COVID. The vast majority of test result turnaround times at nursing homes take substantially longer than the 24 hours recommended.  This includes residents and staff. The 24 hour period is needed for effective infection control. The

Yesterday more than 154,000 new covid cases were reported. A record 66,000 people hospitalized. More than 10.5 million Americans have been infected with the coronavirus. At least 250,000 have died. Can we expect a safe Holidays? DHEC reports 1,243 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 8 new deaths in the Palmetto State. This makes the

The Associated Press reported that the number of coronavirus infections among nursing home residents has surged.  In fact, in 20 of the hardest-hit states has increased by 400 percent since May. The 20 states analyzed in the study are those with the highest COVID-19 hospitalizations: Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana,