Posted on 4/11/2025 The Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) has reported two confirmed pediatric measles cases in unvaccinated Arkansas residents, one from Saline County and one from Faulkner County.
Posted on 1/26/2024 The Arkansas Legislative Council approved four more applications for Emergency Aid Relief to Hospitals from the American Rescue Plan Act funds distributed to Arkansas...
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Posted on 7/14/2023 As part of the CDC's ongoing efforts to make information on COVID-19 readily available and easier to find, especially as we enter the fall respiratory virus season, the organization has launched a new COVID-19 website...
Posted on 7/14/2023 This week, the Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) reported updated figures reflecting the third month of redeterminations as part of its six-month effort to unwind the Medicaid rolls...
Posted on 6/9/2023 On May 22, 2023, Janssen Biotech, Inc. requested the voluntary withdrawal of the emergency use authorization (EUA) of the Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine...
Posted on 6/2/2023 CMS released regulatory changes to the COVID-19 health care staff vaccination requirements and long-term care facility testing requirements...
Posted on 6/2/2023 Now that the PHE has ended, negative COVID-19 test results no longer need to be reported to the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH)...
Posted on 5/12/2023 Resources for hospitals at the close of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency.
Posted on 5/12/2023 The revised infection prevention guidelines continue to recommend universal masking under specific circumstances, including in work units or areas of a facility experiencing a COVID-19 outbreak.
Posted on 5/5/2023 After the COVID-19 public health emergency ends on May 11, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will use COVID-19-associated hospital admission levels as the primary indicator ...
Posted on 4/25/2023 The FDA amended the emergency use authorizations (EUAs) of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 bivalent mRNA vaccines to simplify the vaccination schedule ...
Posted on 4/25/2023 The FDA has announced that health care providers without alternative options may continue to use a certain version of the O&M Halyard FLUIDSHIELD Surgical N95 Respirator Mask for fluid barrier protection if they wear a face shield ...
Posted on 3/17/2023 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week amended the emergency use authorization (EUA) of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, Bivalent to provide for a single booster dose of the vaccine in children 6 months through 4 years of age at least 2
Posted on 3/17/2023 In other COVID-19 vaccine news, the Janssen "COVID-19 Vaccine Fact Sheet for Healthcare Providers Administering Vaccine (Vaccination Providers)" was revised to include a warning conveying that reports of adverse events following use of the vaccine ..
Posted on 3/10/2023 A roundup of the week's news related to COVID-19 ...
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