Tag: Vaccination

  • Cases decreasing: Maintain Course

    Key Points: In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss decreasing COVID cases and advice to maintain the course. Read more below. A recent Duke University study has found that US healthcare workers “had similar rates of potential moral injury – a type of trauma-induced wound to the psyche – as military combat veterans” leading to…

  • New England Cases Rise – What’s It Really Mean?

    Key Points: In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss what the COVID case increase in the New England States means for the U.S. Read more below. New England states are reporting a sharp increase in daily COVID-19 cases driven by the Omicron subvariant, BA.2. This rise in numbers (up to and over 40% in cases)…

  • On the whole: Each week is looking better!

    Key Points: In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we have a short discussion on increasing influenza cases around the US (as you’ll see in the Influenza Update below) and also how COVID-19 is trending across the country. Read more below. The WHO is encouraging countries, “especially those that have received the multiplex influenza and SARS-CoV-2 reagent…

  • Sustaining the Next Normal

    Key Points: In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss combatting infectious diseases in the world’s “next normal.” Read more below. The pandemic global death rate has now exceeded 6 million (NYT). 24 U.S. experts have co-authored a new roadmap as the U.S. enters its third year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We discuss this further into…

  • CDC Updates Mask Guidance, Provides County-Searchable Tool

    Key Points: In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss CDC’s new masking guidance and the utilization of the County-Searchable Tool. Read more below. A recent CDC study has found that about 43% of individuals (>140 million) in the U.S. have been infected with COVID-19 (Washington Post). States like Wyoming, Texas, Wisconsin, and Illinois have had…

  • TAG COVID Matrix Showing Encouraging Trends

    Key Points: In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss TAG’s matrix and the current trends of COVID and its variants. Read more below. As countries have begun accepting the endemicity of COVID-19 in society and many countries are loosening pandemic protocols, the WHO warns that it is not the time to completely let go of…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Testing Before Return from Isolation

    Key Points: In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss testing symptomatic employees prior to their return to work. Read more below. South Africa has declared that they’ve moved through the peak of their fourth COVID-19 wave that has been driven by the Omicron variant. Additionally, it has removed its curfew. The U.S. has topped 2…