Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued updated guidance for health care professionals evaluating and reporting patients under investigation for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack outlines the steps hospitals are taking to prepare for the coronavirus (COVID-19).
The 黑料正能量 Association and American Nurses Association urged Congress to quickly fund health care readiness for coronavirus in a joint letter.
The AHA and American Nurses Association today urged Congress to 鈥渟wiftly provide鈥 $1 billion in initial supplemental emergency funding to support the 鈥渦rgent preparedness and response needs of hospitals, health systems, physicians and nurses on the front lines鈥 of the novel coronavirus outbreak.
The AHA and American Nurses Association urge Congress to 鈥渟wiftly provide鈥 $1 billion in initial supplemental emergency funding to support the 鈥渦rgent preparedness and response needs of hospitals, health systems, physicians and nurses on the front lines鈥 of the novel coronavirus outbreak.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first possible U.S. case of community-spread of novel coronavirus (COVID-19), in a patient in northern California with no known potential exposure through travel or another infected patient.
On this Advancing Health podcast, AHA鈥檚 Akin Demehin, director of policy, speaks to Colleen Kraft, M.D., associate professor in the Department of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University, about novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Kraft was a physician leader during the West African鈥
he novel coronavirus (COVID-19) will spread in the U.S., and hospitals, communities and individuals should ramp up their preparedness efforts, Nancy Messonnier, M.D., director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention鈥檚 National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases said.
The World Health Organization said that for the time being it will not categorize the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic, mainly because of the virus鈥 contained spread and lack of large-scale severe disease and deaths.
AHA webinar on conronavirus featuring Rebecca Bartles, executive director of system infection prevention at Providence St. Joseph Health in Washington state, which was the first health care organization to care for a patient in the U.S. with COVID-19.