The White House is prepping for a rollout of initial vaccines in as little as three months, pouring billions into the search process and buying up vaccine doses in hopes it’ll pay off just ahead of the Nov. 3 election
a rule requiring that nursing homes in states with a 5 percent positivity rate or greater test all nursing home staff every week, Rachel reports.
The move comes as case counts rise across several states, with experts particularly worried about asymptomatic carriers bringing the virus into nursing homes.It plans to send another $5 billion to nursing homes out of the provider relief fund, and has begun deploying "strike teams" to help nursing homes determine what actions they need to take to curb the spread of the coronavirus., hospital groups urge Congress to give them more aid, saying that “lives depend on it.
The ad from the Coalition to Protect America's Health Care — a hospital front group — references the country's new surge of Covid-19 patients, and warns that hospitals are still expected to lose money in a nod to the broad slowdown of lucrative elective procedures. The American Hospital Association declined to put a dollar figure on the campaign, POLITICO's Susannah Luthi reports, saying only that it's "significant.
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