1. 10 states COVID-19 may hit the hardest by Christmas: Mayo forecasts  Full story

2. 4 states set COVID-19 case records this week  Full story

3. Biden asks Supreme Court to allow nationwide vaccination mandate for healthcare workers  Full story

4. EHRs are essential — but they won’t solve staffing issues. See how Hartford Healthcare found a simple solution.

5. Oracle nears deal to buy Cerner for $30B  Full story

6. Cleveland Clinic extends nonemergent surgeries pause into 2022  Full story

7. COVID has shifted the workplace needs of clinical and office staff. Here are 3 key ways to support both. 

8. Intermountain, SCL Health ink definitive agreement to merge  Full story

9. CDC panel recommends reducing J&J vaccine use after blood clot discussion  Full story

10. What data on 120,000 COVID hospitalizations shows about breakthrough cases  Full story

11. Here's how a 300-bed hospital was able to revolutionize their digital infrastructure with just a few hours of training.

12. UPMC launches in-house travel staffing agency to address nursing shortage  Full story

13. Pennsylvania hospital workers avert strike with new contract  Full story

14. 56 hospital CEO retirements announced in 2021  Full story

15. Daily COVID-19 stats, state-by-state:

• Test positivity rates
• Vaccines administered
• Population fully vaccinated
• Hospitalizations
• Deaths

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