Cardiovascular Complications and Imaging in the Era of the COVID-19 Pandemic 2020 to Present.

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the world that was not previously conceivable. In early 2020, hospitals on all continents were overwhelmed with patients afflicted with this novel virus, with unanticipated mortality worldwide. The virus has had a deleterious effect, particularly the respiratory and cardiovascular systems.

Now Is Our Time to Act: Why Academic Medicine Must Embrace Community Collaboration as Its Fourth Mission.

In his Leadership Plenary at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) annual meeting, "Learn Serve Lead 2020: The Virtual Experience," president and CEO David Skorton emphasized that the traditional tripartite mission of academic medicine-medical education, clinical care, and research-is no longer enough to achieve health justice for all. Today, collaborating with diverse communities deserves equal weight among academic medicine's missions. This means going beyond "delivering care" to establishing and expanding ongoing, two-way community dialogues that push the envelope of what is possible in service to what is needed.

Mandating COVID-19 Vaccination for Health Care Workers.

It is imperative that all 17 million health care workers in the United States be vaccinated against COVID-19. The authors believe that the best way to achieve this is for the workers to choose vaccination, but given the current situation, the authors feel that health care employers should mandate vaccination. A joint statement signed by dozens of health care professional societies and organizations endorses this requirement.