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Connecticut Begins Vaccinating Based Strictly on Age: It Is Simpler, but Is it Fair?
On Monday, Connecticut will be the first state to begin vaccinating anyone from age 55 to 64—instead of people with chronic health issues and essential workers.
Countless Homebound Patients Still Wait for COVID-19 Vaccine Despite Priority of Older Adults
Health organizations have begun sending doctors and nurses to apartment buildings and private homes to vaccinate homebound older adults, but the efforts are slow and spotty.
Improving Vaccine Delivery, Operations
Adnan Iqbal, CEO and co-founder, Luma Health, identifies what is lacking in vaccine delivery and operations, and offers tips for health administrators and health systems that are looking to improve…

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Connecticut Begins Vaccinating Based Strictly on Age: It Is Simpler, but Is it Fair?
Countless Homebound Patients Still Wait for COVID-19 Vaccine Despite Priority of Older Adults
Improving Vaccine Delivery, Operations
Prominent Scientists Call on CDC to Better Protect Workers From COVID-19
Using Antibody Tests to Diagnose, Treat COVID-19 and Improve Workflows
Reviewing New COVID Vaccine Data and the Effect on Accessibility
100 Million COVID-19 Shots in 100 Days Doesn’t Get Us Back to Normal
Ad Council Aims to Help Providers Better Understand Questions Expected About COVID-19 Vaccinations
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Improving Vaccine Delivery, Operations
Adnan Iqbal, CEO and co-founder, Luma Health, identifies what is lacking in vaccine delivery and operations, and offers tips for health administrators and health systems that are looking to improve their vaccine rollout.
Using Antibody Tests to Diagnose, Treat COVID-19 and Improve Workflows
Lakiea Wright, MD, board-certified allergist and immunologist, and associate physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, discusses the immune system’s antibody response during COVID-19, and highlights how antibody tests can be used clinically to…
To Vaccinate or Not To Vaccinate: Exploring Real-World Experiences About COVID-19 Vaccines From Health Care Heroines and Heroes on the Front Lines
Yvette C Terrie BS Pharm, RPh, consultant pharmacist, spoke with health care providers currently working in various health care settings to elaborate on their reasons for obtaining or not obtaining the available COVID-19 vaccines, and to discuss…
Thank You to All of Our Health Care Providers: They Are Our Heroes
As this very trying year comes to an end, Michael Cawley, PharmD, writes a note of thanks to health care workers for their courage and ability to stay in the fight when all else was bleak.
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Reviewing New COVID Vaccine Data and the Effect on Accessibility
Michael Ganio, PharmD, senior director, Pharmacy Practice and Quality, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, reviews the recently released data on both the Novavax and Johnson…
Ad Council Aims to Help Providers Better Understand Questions Expected About COVID-19 Vaccinations
Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD, FACOG, president and dean, Morehouse School of Medicine, discusses a video series that was recently created by the medical and health community for the medical and health community featuring physicians and nurses,…
ASHP Expert Talks Vaccine Hesitancy, New Challenges Following COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout
Anna Legreid Dopp, PharmD, senior director of clinical guidelines and quality improvement, ASHP, provides the need-to-know details of the COVID-19 vaccine, including how the vaccine rollout will impact the everyday work of a pharmacist as well as…
Identifying the Benefits of Rapid At-Home Diagnostic Testing and How These Can Communicate With PCPs, Infectious Disease Professionals
Ron Chiarello, PhD, CEO, Alveo Technologies, discusses a recent collaboration the company began with Janssen—where together they are working to improve and expand an at-home self-testing platform for viral infectious diseases—and explains why rapid…
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