The temporary waiver for Medicare’s three-day stay requirement will continue at least into January after the COVID-19 public health crisis designation was extended by Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra this week. 

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The agency has amended the emergency use authorizations for Moderna’s and Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccines to allow for the use of a single booster dose in certain eligible groups.

Nurses working backward-rotating shifts were significantly more sleepy and exhibited more cognitive slowing — including longer reaction times — than those working forward rotations, researchers say. 

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