This month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), issued a proposed rule that seeks to establish comprehensive staffing requirements for nursing homes — including, for the first time, national minimum nurse staffing standards — to ensure access to safe, high-quality care for the over 1.2 million residents living in nursing homes each day.

Current analysis estimates that 7.7 million to 23 million Americans have developed Long COVID. On July 31, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra released the following statement applauding the formation of the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice to lead the Long COVID response and coordination across the federal government and, in addition, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) launch of the Long COVID clinical trials through the RECOVER Initiative.