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Importance of visiting nursing homes — Within the last year, nursing homes were deeply affected by extreme COVID-19 guidelines and restrictions. Nursing homes are especially vulnerable to outbreaks due to the special care required by residents, the residents’ ages, and the residents living in close proximity to one another and staff. Additionally, nursing facilities are clinical […]

Visiting Loved Ones in Nursing Homes

September 11, 2021 in Health / life / Medicare tagged covid-19 / geriatrics / mental health / quarantine / relationships by Brittany Herring

As the population grows more and more tired of COVID-19, the CDC is looking at reducing quarantine time from 14 days to somewhere between seven and ten days. A 14-day quarantine after arrival, without symptom monitoring or testing, can reduce risk by 97-100% on its own. However, a shorter quarantine […]

CDC Looks To Reduce Quarantine Time

December 1, 2020 in Health tagged cdc / covid-19 / Disease Prevention / quarantine / Vaccinations by Jeffrey Cooperstein

With COVID-19 cases on the rise, Texas Governor Greg Abbott approved El Paso’s curfew. El Paso is currently a hotbed for Coronavirus, with funeral homes and hospitals being overrun with patients. As of right now, El Paso County has over 36,000 active COVID-19 cases. El Paso is the first major […]

Governor Greg Abbott Approved El Paso’s Curfew

November 30, 2020 in Health tagged cdc / covid-19 / Disease Prevention / quarantine / Vaccinations by Jeffrey Cooperstein

As of right now, despite multiple games being postponed and moved to different dates, the NFL has no plans to bubble. The bubble that worked so well for the NBA, which had 0 positive tests in over 100 days in a bubble at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, […]

NFL has no plans to bubble

October 21, 2020 in Health tagged covid-19 / pandemic / quarantine by Jeffrey Cooperstein

Texas Governor Greg Abbott announces further reopening of the state beginning Monday, September 21. Here’s everything you need to know about Texas’ new reopening phase. In 19 of the 22 regions in Texas, all businesses and stores that were at 50% are now allowed to expand their capacity to 75%. […]

Abbott announces further reopening

September 25, 2020 in Health tagged covid-19 / global health / quarantine by Jeffrey Cooperstein

The new COVID-19 plasma treatment is administered intravenously through a drip bag, shown here. — In late August, President Trump announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had completed the authorization process for convalescent plasma treatment to aid victims of the coronavirus pandemic. The COVID-19 plasma treatment was previously available to many Americans, yet the FDA’s authorization will make the treatment more accessible to […]

FDA Approves COVID-19 Plasma Treatment

September 6, 2020 in Health / Medicare tagged covid-19 / Food and Drug Administration / healthcare news / pandemic / quarantine by Macee Hall

Telehealth apps allow patients to meet with healthcare providers day or night. — As patients remain concerned about the current COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth expands with many health care providers now offering services virtually. In 2020 alone, telehealth will grow by nearly 65 percent, according to an analysis by Frost & Sullivan. This rapid expansion continues to allow patients access to on-demand, cost-effective care […]

Telehealth Expands due to COVID Concerns

September 4, 2020 in Health / Medicare tagged covid-19 / healthcare technology / quarantine / telehealth revolution by Macee Hall

work from home — Working from home can be a difficult transition. Almost everything has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in some way. Part of that has been many business professionals now have to conduct business remotely since they can no longer meet their clients and customers in person. AIG has created several […]

Navigating The New Normal: Working From Home

August 28, 2020 in Health / life / Medicare tagged covid-19 / quarantine / Technology / workplace health by Joe Manichia

How do pets and COVID-19 mix? Following the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, scientists in China tested to see how the disease affected animals, and whether or not they could pass it on to humans. They found that cats could pass the virus to one another through viral RNA breathed out from the […]

Pets and COVID-19

April 17, 2020 in Health tagged covid-19 / health risks / quarantine by Emily Schellin

How we are coping with quarantine at Empower Empower Brokerage is classified as an Essential Business so that we can help consumers find the coverage they need in an ever-changing market and situation. We are following best practices from the CDC but we wanted to ask some of our co-workers […]

How We Are Coping With Quarantine at Empower

April 16, 2020 in Health tagged healthy mind / quarantine / relationships by Micah Boulter