The policy covers all healthcare providers that participate in Medicare or Medicaid. 

The new study, published in JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging, suggests that asymptomatic individuals do not need to be screened after recovering from a mild COVID-19 diagnosis.

The group says it also still supports wearing masks when indoors and practicing social distancing. 

Imaging data gathered when patients are first hospitalized can be used to anticipate how their hearts might recover in the weeks and months ahead. 

The new study, published in JAMA, examined patients presenting with both in-hospital and out-of-hospital STEMI.

Pfizer shared detailed clinical trial results with the FDA that highlight the effectiveness of its reduced-dose COVID-19 vaccine for children between the ages of 5 and 11. 

The new analysis emphasized, however, that COVID-19 mortality did not appear to be affected by prior statin use.  

The group urged all eligible individuals to get vaccinated, noting that vaccine-related side effects have been quite rare. 

One large health system actually treated more heart failure patients during the pandemic than it had in previous years.