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A Louisiana federal judge on Tuesday granted a preliminary injunction against the Biden administration’s mandate that says all healthcare workers involved in the Medicare or Medicaid programs must be vaccinated against COVID-19.

SPM NEWS 6.29.21 - 4:32PM Gun deaths have been surging in Iowa as a law is set to go into effect that will allow people to more easily buy handguns and carry them in public without training or a permit. The Iowa Department of Public Health said Tuesday that a record 353 people died from gunshot wounds in Iowa in 2020, a 23% increase from the previous high in 2019. This year saw 85 firearm homicides, an 80% increase. Suicides still made up three of every four gun deaths in the state. A leading g...

Iowa Capital Dispatch Only 50 of Iowa’s 409 nursing homes are reporting that three-quarters or more of their workers have been vaccinated against COVID-19. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) Only 50 of Iowa’s 409 nursing homes are reporting that three-quarters or more of their workers have been vaccinated against COVID-19, newly disclosed records show. That means 88% of Iowa’s nursing homes have yet to meet the industry’s stated standard of having at least three-fourths of their wor...

Nursing homes will need to make major progress on resident and staff vaccine reporting to avoid penalties, if data released Thursday is any indication.

Federal regulators have unveiled the first round of COVID-19 vaccination data for individual nursing homes on the CMS COVID-19 Nursing Home Data website. Statistics for staff and resident vaccination rates, which now must be reported, started appearing early Thursday afternoon.

Even in Iowa nursing homes where a half-dozen residents or more have died of COVID-19, fewer than half the workers have been vaccinated against the virus, newly disclosed records show.

As vaccination rates climb and Long-Term Care (LTC) facilities begin to reopen, the beginning of a return to “normal” also brings the extension of a familiar theme for LTC facilities:...

The U.S. new cases 7-day rolling average are 20.7 % LOWER than the 7-day rolling average one week ago and U.S. deaths due to coronavirus are now 14.0 % LOWER than the rolling average one week ago. Todays posts include: U.S. Coronavirus New Cases are 36,451 U.S. Coronavirus deaths are at 693 U.S. Coronavirus immunizations have been administered to 78.7 doses per 100 people. The 7-day rolling average rate of growth of the pandemic shows new cases little changed and deaths improved Increased tran...

© Getty Federal health officials instituted a rule mandating long-term care facilities report residents’ and staff’s COVID-19 vaccinations every week to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) starting in two weeks.  The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the vaccination reporting requirement on Tuesday, directing the facilities to report the data to the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), a national infection tracking system.  Officia...

sales of existing homes dropped. and manufacturers had been expecting a modest increase. and inflation on consumer goods was up. add in collapsing consumer confidence and you get sober advice like this -- >> 2012 could be a very difficult year. im on the camp that we have more chance of being in recession than avoiding it. so, they should be conservative right now. their confidence should be down because theres every reason out there that they shouldnt feel confident. >> getting us sta...