The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released updated guidelines for dental practices on May 19. The new guidance focuses on providing the most necessary dental services first and limiting the risk of an…

The United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has released the following tips to help safeguard oral health professionals as they return to practice. Encourage clinicians and staff to stay home if sick…

A COVID-19 vaccine—created by Moderna in collaboration with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)—seems to initiate an immune response in a Phase 1 trial, giving hope to the possibility of an effective vaccine in…

To help states reach their benchmarks for reopening, the United States Department of Health and Human Services will provide $11 billion to expand testing capabilities. Under this umbrella, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently revoked its emergency authorization of several KN95 masks because they could not meet the minimum particle filtration requirement of 95%. They include KN95 masks manufactured by…

A recent survey of more than 2,300 medical residents in the greater New York area found that ophthalmology residents in addition to emergency medicine and anesthesiology residents were at the greatest risk of COVID-19 infection.…

The North Carolina legislature passed SB 704-COVID-19 Recovery Act on May 4, which enables dentists to administer diagnostic and antibody tests for the novel coronavirus if the tests have approval or emergency authorization from the United…

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning on May 14 regarding the risk of false negative testing results with the Abbott ID Now test, which provides point-of-care diagnosis of COVID-19 infection. The test…

The American Dental Association Health Policy Institute released details from its Economic Impact of COVID-19 Tracking Poll for the week of May 4, which was completed by more than 6,700 private practice dentists. Some of the findings…

Roy Johnson, DDS, and his private dental practice Windy Hill Dentistry in Marietta, Georgia, filed a class-action lawsuit on May 8 against his insurance carrier, the Hartford Financial Services Group, after it refused to reimburse Johnson…