Tennessee has earned the unwanted prize of being home to the most new COVID-19 cases per capita in the United States. One out of 81 Tennessee residents tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 during the past week. The number of COVID-19 cases in the…

All oral health professionals, exhibitors, guests, and staff members who wish to attend the annual meeting, SmileCon, of the American Dental Association (ADA) must provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative test result. The meeting…

While booster shots to the COVID-19 vaccination are recommended for those who are immunocompromised, whether healthy, previously vaccinated individuals need a booster remains an unanswered question. A group of public health experts recently…

On September 10, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced an update to the agency’s COVID-19 infection prevention and control guidance for healthcare settings. The update is designed to provide a…

While many variants of SARS-CoV-2 exist, only four have raised alarm. The World Health Organization designates those variants that pose the greatest health threats as “variants of concern.” Thus far, the Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Mu…

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will review 2 months of safety data from clinical trials on the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines among children ages 5 to 11. This suggests that COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers…

With oral health professionals donning extensive personal protective equipment and using respirators while caring for patients during a global pandemic, understanding which agency oversees what is helpful to clinicians who may have…

In December 2020, COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the United States with heart disease and cancer filling the top two spots, respectively. In July 2021, COVID plummeted to the eighth leading cause of death as mass…

During the first week of September, more than 250,000 children contracted COVID-19 in the United States, representing the highest number of weekly pediatric cases ever reported since the global pandemic commenced in March 2020.…

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) v-safe program enables Americans who have received their first COVID-19 vaccination to provide valuable information on their experience with the swipe of their…