Governor Signs Universal Indoor Mask Mandate |
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Takes Effect at 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday |
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Governor John Carney on Monday signed a revision to the State of Emergency declaration, requiring Delawareans to wear masks in indoor public settings, including convenience stores, grocery stores, gyms, restaurants, bars, hair salons, malls, and casinos. The mask requirement takes effect at 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, January 11. Masks are not required outdoors or while eating or drinking in restaurants and bars, but otherwise should be worn. Churches and other houses of worship are exempted from the mask requirement. Also on Monday, Governor Carney announced plans to extend the school and child care facilities mask requirements, and deployed additional members of the Delaware National Guard to assist with non-clinical operations inside Delaware hospitals.
The mask requirements in K-12 public and private schools and child care facilities, which had been set to expire in early February, will be extended. The extension will ensure that Delaware students can attend school in-person without consistent disruptions.
Governor Carney deployed 70 additional members of the Delaware National Guard to assist with non-clinical operations inside Delaware hospitals statewide, beginning Tuesday. In total, more than 300 members of the Delaware National Guard are assisting with COVID-19 response efforts - including support at vaccination and testing locations, help with PPE distribution, and hospital assistance. Roughly 110 members of the Guard - separate from the 70 members deployed on Monday - are training to serve as certified nursing assistants in health care settings statewide to take pressure off hospital systems.
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Meeting Registration at Capacity |
The Division of Public Health (DPH), in partnership with the Medical Society of Delaware, will be holding a virtual Zoom meeting on Wednesday, January 12th at 6 p.m. DPH Medical Director Rick Hong, MD will discuss COVID-19 treatments (monoclonal antibody treatment and the recently FDA-authorized antiviral treatments), isolation and quarantine guidance, and testing. Unfortunately, registration has met capacity. The event will be recorded and uploaded to the MSD website homepage on Thursday for anyone not able to join the meeting.
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FDA Shortens Duration Between Moderna Second Dose/Booster |
In Line with New Recommendations for Recipients of the Pfizer Vaccine |
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last Friday amended the emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to shorten the time between the completion of a primary series of the vaccine and a booster dose to at least five months for individuals 18 years of age and older. The previous interval was six months between the primary series and a booster dose. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) agreed with the decision, which is in line with new recommendations for recipients of the Pfizer vaccine.
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To meet the unprecedented demand for hospital and health care services amid the current surge of COVID-19, ChristianaCare has implemented Crisis Standards of Care. Crisis Standards of Care are used in times of emergency to guide decision-making when the demand for care surpasses the available resources, and contingency strategies designed to maintain conventional processes of care have been exhausted. They provide a framework in which health care providers can modify processes or change the way resources are allocated in order to care for patients with the highest need in conditions when it is no longer possible to deliver care according to normal standards. While the demand for health care includes patients with and patients without COVID-19, the high rate of COVID spread in the community is the single most important cause of this current crisis.
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Highlight On Events And Educational Offerings |
An Approach to Patients Who Have Not Gotten the COVID-19 Vaccine |
This course module was developed by the "Made to Save" Campaign and will explore a patient-centered approach to COVID-19 vaccine counseling to increase trust, confidence, and vaccine uptake, based on the experience of a national grassroots COVID-19 vaccine education and outreach campaign focused on underserved communities of color. The Yale School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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