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Assessing Risk for Lifting Mask Requirements in Your Business
Key Points: In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss how businesses can assess risk when considering lifting of COVID protections, including masking. Read more below. US COVID cases, hospitalizations continue steady decline. Average daily COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are continuing to fall in the U.S., an indicator that the Omicron variant’s hold is weakening across…
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When Can We Reduce Masking Requirements?
Key Points: In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss the question: When can our business reduce or rescind our masking requirements? Read more below. Further decline in global COVID cases as deaths stabilize. COVID-19 cases across the globe declined last week for the second week in a row, with illness levels dropping in every region…
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As COVID Recedes, New Challenges Arise
Key Points: In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss how COVID-19 has impacted other areas of public health. Read more below. In the U.S., new COVID-19 cases have dropped by 42%; although death rates and hospitalizations remain high (CIDRAP). However, around the world, COVID-19 still persists. In fact, in Hong Kong, daily cases have now…
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COVID Declining; Continuing to Impart Lessons for Infectious Disease Control
Key Points: In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss the continued decline of COVID and the lessons it continues to impart for infectious disease (and “next pandemic”) control. Read more below. The future of the pandemic is looking clearer as we learn more about infection (NPR). New studies are providing an optimistic picture about immunity…
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COVID Transitional Period Increases Masking Debate
Key Points: In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss the current “transition” status of COVID-19, mask mandates, and recommendations. Read more below. Is the Coronavirus in Your Backyard?. A study of white-tailed deer killed by hunters or car crashes found more than 60 percent to be infected with COVID-19, showing that deer could become a…
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Cliché but True: Keep Calm and Carry On
Key Points: In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss the current progression of COVID and the flu and why keeping calm is the phrase of the day. Read more below. Happy Lunar New Year to all our readers! The U.S. FDA has given full approval to Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, henceforth known as Spikevax (VOA News,…
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TAG Holds Guarded Optimism for the Ebbing of Omicron
Key Points: In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss our guarded optimism for the ebbing of Omicron. Read more below. OSHA Withdraws Its Workplace Vaccine Rule. On Tuesday, OSHA announced its withdrawal of the November 5, 2021, ETS issued to “protect unvaccinated employees of large employers (100 or more employees) from the risk of contracting…
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What Does an Endemic COVID Really Mean?
Key Points: In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss the ebbing of Omicron and what a shift to an endemic COVID would really mean. Read more below. The FDA is limiting the use of the following two monoclonal antibodies – (a) bamlanivimad and etesevimab and (b) REGEN-COV – to treat COVID-19 as they are “highly…
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Build Your Systems for COVID’s Next Wave
Key Points: In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss the business management of COVID’s next wave … whatever that may be. Read more below. As you’ve most likely heard, the Supreme Court has halted the COVID-19 vaccine rule for U.S. businesses. (AP News). Canada approves of Pfizer’s COVID-19 pill to be used “for adult patients…
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Even Unrelated Vaccines Can Help Protect Against COVID-19
Key Points: In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss new studies suggesting that flu shots, measles vaccines, and the common cold can cross-protect against COVID. Read more below. A recently published study found that SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy is associated with an increased risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes, including induced abortion, cesarean sections, preterm birth…