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Aerogen Partnership to Develop World’s First Inhaled Covid-19 Vaccine Delivery

Following months of collaborative development work, Aerogen® (Galway, Ireland) and CanSinoBIO (Tianjin, China) have announced a development and commercial supply partnership for the inhaled delivery of CanSinoBIO’s Recombinant Novel Coronavirus Vaccine Convidecia™ utilizing Aerogen’s proprietary vibrating mesh aerosol drug delivery technology. The aerosolized vaccine is directly inhaled via a cup […]

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CMS Issues COVID Vaccine Mandate for Healthcare Workers

The Biden-Harris Administration is requiring COVID-19 vaccination of eligible staff at health care facilities that participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The emergency regulation issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today protects those fighting this virus on the front lines while also delivering assurances to […]

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Smartwatch-Based Algorithm to Detect Early Signs of Viral Infections, Including COVID-19

Purdue University and physIQ have announced the co-development of a viral detection algorithm for smartwatches. This innovation will be the result of a collaboration between physIQ and university engineers. The algorithm will be commercialized by physIQ, which develops solutions designed to improve health care outcomes by applying artificial intelligence to real-time physiological […]

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CHEST, ALA & ATS Release New Joint COVID-19 Statement

The American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST), American Lung Association and American Thoracic Society released the following statement in response to the increase in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. “Recently, there has been a dramatic rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations due to the highly contagious Delta variant. According to the Centers for […]

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RTs Became the Unsung Heroes of the Pandemic

As a tribute to the respiratory therapy community, we picked up this article from the Philadelphia Inquirer. It’s an article written to tell laypeople what respiratory therapists do on a daily basis and their critical role in the pandemic. A respiratory therapist may not be the medical professional you’d be […]

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COVID-19 Pandemic Highlights the Urgent Global Need to Control Air Pollution

A new commentary published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society provides an exhaustive examination of published research that discusses whether air pollution may be linked to worse COVID-19 outcomes. The studies that the authors examined look at several potential disease mechanisms, and also at the relationship between pollution, respiratory viruses and health disparities. […]