COVID-19: Caring for Patients and Communities
The National Institutes of Health’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics initiative awarded $248.7 million in contracts to produce four new laboratory tests and three new point-of-care tests to detect SARS-CoV-2.
There’s a poignant moment in Hamilton: An American Musical in which a despondent George Washington laments the long odds of his revolution, “a powder keg about to explode” unless he receives an immediate infusion of the supplies and reinforcements he was initially promised at the war’s start.
Together, the AHA, the American Medical Association (AMA) and American Nurses Association (ANA) today
AHA Board Chair Melinda Estes, M.D., authored an opinion article for USA Today, urging patients to continue to rely on hospitals and emergency rooms for non-COVID-19, life-saving, medically necessary care.
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced a series of free COVID-19 training sessions for both VA and non-VA clinicians.
Even though Congress has passed several bills that provide some relief for hospitals during the COVID-19 health emergency, more must be done, said AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack in an interview with Washington, D.C.-based WONK-FM.
AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack released a statement of support over the Administration's announcement to extend the public health emergency.
With COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths on the rise in much of the country, negotiations on the next COVID-19 relief package are picking up in the Senate.
The AHA and its members are partnering with the Department of Health and Human Services to encourage eligible patients who recover from COVID-19 to donate convalescent plasma, which contains antibodies that could help other patients fight the virus.
Congress returns to Washington, D.C., on Monday, and the stakes are extremely high. The Senate will begin serious negotiations on the next COVID-19 relief package, and we expect Congress to pass legislation before the August congressional recess.