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Hospitalizations, drug and device shortages, and employee illness and burnout may continue through 2022, AHA says.
Patients had a high level of trust in pharmacists to complete most activities, including prescribing medications and providing counseling.
A critical staffing shortage has contributed to the loss of about 700 medical/surgical and ICU hospital beds since the beginning of 2021.
This applies in the 24 states where the vaccine mandate was reinstated by last week's Supreme Court's decision.
At 81% approval from the public, nurses far outperform even the second-place profession, medical doctors, who grabbed a 67% rating.
The Justices upheld mandates for healthcare workers but say OSHA standards overstepped federal power.
Clover saw membership growth in a number of service area counties across Georgia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and South Carolina.
This adds to the more than 800 federal emergency personnel dispatched to 24 states, tribes and territories since Thanksgiving.
In the absence of those declarations, the hospital group expects the challenges of the pandemic to be "exponentially more difficult" to overcome.
Arguments center on Aduhelm's price, its questionable clinical benefit and why the agency is going against FDA approval of the drug.