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December 2020

• December 3 - CDC Vaccine Advisers Vote on Who Should Get COVID Vaccine First; First Mass Shipment of Pfizer's COVID-19 Vaccine Arrives in US; State Vaccine Registry Deadlines IMMINENT; Updated Version of Benchmarking Report Includes a NEW Section on the Impact of COVID-19 on the Industry; New $908 Billion Bipartisan Stimulus Proposal Released Tuesday; CMS Finalizes Physician Fee Schedule, Including Controversial Updates to E/M Visits; NEW Hippo Education Program; 12 Good Things from Us to You

November 2020

• November 25 - AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine; CDC 4 Key Guidelines for COVID Vaccine Distribution; State Vaccine Registry Deadlines IMMINENT; Facebook Community; Hippo Educations NEW Telemedicine Course; Amazon Smile; 5 Week's Left of FREE Content and more!
• November 19 -  Why Does Pfizer's COVID-19 Vaccine Need To Be Kept Colder Than Antarctica; Why the Coronavirus Numbers are Likely to Keep Getting Worse; Antibiotic Awareness Week; Member Spotlight; Industry and Pediatric Blog; and more!
• November 12 - FDA Gives Emergency OK to Lilly's Antibody Treatment for COVID-19; About 9% of hospitalized COVID-19 Patients Readmitted Within Two Months, CDC Finds; Serve on your State’s COVID-19 Vaccination Administration Committee; NEW! Updated version of the Benchmarking Report with a new section showing the impact of COVID-19 on Urgent Care Centers; NEW! UCA2020 On-Demand Sessions; New Certified Centers and More!
• November 5 - Free Life Insurance Coverage for Healthcare Workers On the Frontline of COVID-19 Pandemic; American Academy of Pediatrics Reports Highest One-Week Increase in Child Cases of COVID-19 Since Onset of Pandemic; Why We Should Resist Over-Optimism About Covid-19 Vaccines; COVID-19 Task Force Update; NEW! UCA2020 On-Demand Sessions; Webinars, Industry Perspectives Blog, New Policy of the Month and More!
• November 4 - Special edition sponsored by Experity

October 2020

• October 29 - COVID-19 Infections Causing Health Care Worker Shortages; 4 Big Announcements from UCA Chief Executive Officer; Patients Can Read Your Clinical Notes Starting Nov 2; JD Power Survey Charts the Top 12 Reasons for Using Telehealth; CalUCA Welcomes New Board Members; and More!
• October 28 - Special edition sponsored by Braid
• October 22 -  A Week After COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Goes on Pause, Johnson & Johnson and FDA Won't Reveal Critical Details; U.K. Government Invests $43 Million In Vaccine Trials That Deliberately Infect Volunteers With COVID-19; NAHQ Healthcare Quality Week October 18-24; UCAPAC Needs Your Support to Help Defend our Industry; UCA2020 - ABS and PR … Both Important UC Acronyms; Hippo Education's NEW Telemedicine: Common Conditions Video Course; Webinars and more!
• October 15 - COVID-19 Town Hall 5.0; Johnson & Johnson Pauses Coronavirus Vaccine; Eli Lilly Antibody Treatment Trial Is Paused; Coming Soon: Members Only Podcasts; Webinars and more!
• October 8 - CalUCA Virtual Conference; COVID-19 Town Hall 5.0 with the CDC; Could COVID-19 Actually be Driving Patients to UC?; We Cannot Ignore Non-Communicable Diseases During COVID; COVID Task Force Update; UCA2020 - COVID and Micro Learning; and more!
• October 1 - Insights on CDC's Vaccine Distribution Planning from UCA Chief Executive Officer Lou Ellen Horwitz, More than 1,700 U.S. healthcare workers have died from COVID-19, nurses' union says, VA Enhanced Flu Vaccine Benefit, Telehealth Is Here To Stay. Are The Providers Who Refuse To Embrace It, This Week's Features from UCA2020 - FREE for UCA Members!, New and Renewed Center Members, 3bExam Blog: DOT Physicals - No Rush to Judgment, Member Spotlight Story, New Policy of the Month, and more!

September 2020

• September 24 - CCA and UCA Call-To-Action to be part of the Solution to Immunizing the US Population for COVID19 when a Vaccine is Available; FDA Considering Authorization Rules That Could Push Coronavirus Vaccine Past Election Day; NEW UCA2020 On Demand Sessions; CalUCA Virtual Conference; 2021 Accreditation Fee Structure; and more!
• September 17 - US Plan to Provide Free COVID-19 Vaccines; Less than 1/2 of Americans Say They'll Get a COVID Vaccine; COVID Task Force Updates; Free On-Demand Sessions; and more
• September 10 - AMA with New CPT Codes; 9 Drug Companies Pledge to Stand with Science on Vaccine; FDA's New App for Frontline Doctors; How to Store N-95 Masks; CalUCA Conference; new Certified Centers; ACOEM Symposium and more
• September 3 - UCA2020 On Demand now Exclusive Complimentary Member Benefit; CDC Plans for Potential Vaccine in Late October; Brief Survey to Guage UCA2021 Convention; Advisory Panel Outlines Four-Phase Plan for Distributing COVID-19 Vaccines; COVID-19 Listserv; and more!

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