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When Covid Deaths Aren’t Counted, Families Pay the Price
This story also ran on The Guardian. It can be republished for free. On Sundays, Bishop Bruce Davis preached love. Through his Pentecostal ministry, he organized youth parades and gave computers, bicycles and food to families in need. During the week, Bruce practiced what he preached, caring for prisoners at a Georgia hospital. On March 27 he began coughing, and on April 1 he was hospitalized. He’d tested positive for covid-19. The virus swept through his household, infecting his wife and daughter and hospitalizing their disabled son. Ten days after landing in the hospital, Bruce died. But whe...
Kaiser Health News
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When Covid Deaths Aren’t Counted, Families Pay the Price
This story also ran on The Guardian. It can be republished for free. On Sundays, Bishop Bruce Davis preached love. Through his Pentecostal ministry, he organized youth parades and gave computers, bicycles and food to families in need. During the week, Bruce practiced what he preached, caring for prisoners at a Georgia hospital. On March 27 he began coughing, and on April 1 he was hospitalized. He’d tested positive for covid-19. The virus swept through his household, infecting his wife and daughter and hospitalizing their disabled son. Ten days after landing in the hospital, Bruce died. But whe...
California Healthline
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Feeling Left Out: Private Practice Doctors, Patients Wonder When It’s Their Turn for Vaccine
Dr. Andrew Carroll — a family doctor in Chandler, Arizona — wants to help his patients get immunized against covid, so he paid more than $4,000 to buy an ultra-low-temperature freezer from eBay needed to store the Pfizer vaccine. But he’s not sure he’ll get a chance to use it, given health officials have so far not said when private doctor’s offices will get vaccine. “I’m really angry,” said Carroll. Not only are doctors having trouble getting vaccine for patients, but many of the community-based physicians and medical staff that aren’t employed by hospitals or health systems also report mixed...
Kaiser Health News
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Feeling Left Out: Private Practice Doctors, Patients Wonder When It’s Their Turn for Vaccine
Dr. Andrew Carroll — a family doctor in Chandler, Arizona — wants to help his patients get immunized against covid, so he paid more than $4,000 to buy an ultra-low-temperature freezer from eBay needed to store the Pfizer vaccine. But he’s not sure he’ll get a chance to use it, given health officials have so far not said when private doctor’s offices will get vaccine. “I’m really angry,” said Carroll. Not only are doctors having trouble getting vaccine for patients, but many of the community-based physicians and medical staff that aren’t employed by hospitals or health systems also report mixed...
California Healthline
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Sen. Mitt Romney Blasts Trump Administration’s COVID-19 Vaccination Roll-Out
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) released a statement Friday pushing for a more detailed vaccine distribution plan and blasting the Trump Administration’s current blueprint. Romney called the lack of a federal distribution plan “incomprehensible” and “inexcusable.” “That comprehensive vaccination plans have not been developed at the federal level and sent to the states as models are as incomprehensible as it is inexcusable,” Romney said Friday in a statement. Romney also knocked the plan for relying on hospitals and pharmacies that are already overburdened, calling it “unrealistic.” The Utah senator ...
uPolitics.com
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Las vacunas de COVID parecen ser seguras y efectivas, pero todavía hay preguntas
El reciente lanzamiento de dos vacunas para COVID-19 es una luz de esperanza en medio de la pandemia. Ahora hay un camino que puede llevarnos a tiempos más felices, incluso mientras observamos y sufrimos la horrible avalancha de nuevas infecciones, hospitalizaciones y muertes que marcan el final de este año lamentable. Los trabajadores de salud y los residentes de hogares de adultos mayores ya han comenzado a recibir vacunas en la primera fase de la distribución. Y más deberían estar disponibles para el público en general en los primeros meses del próximo año. Las dos vacunas, una desarrollada...
Kaiser Health News (Espanol)
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As the Terror of COVID Struck, Health Care Workers Struggled to Survive. Thousands Lost the Fight.
This story also ran on The Guardian. It can be republished for free. Workers at Garfield Medical Center in suburban Los Angeles were on edge as the pandemic ramped up in March and April. Staffers in a 30-patient unit were rationing a single tub of sanitizing wipes all day. A May memo from the CEO said N95 masks could be cleaned up to 20 times before replacement. Patients showed up COVID-negative but some still developed symptoms a few days later. Contact tracing took the form of texts and whispers about exposures. By summer, frustration gave way to fear. At least 60 staff members at the 210-be...
Kaiser Health News
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COVID Vaccines Appear Safe and Effective, but Key Questions Remain
Use Our Content It can be republished for free. The recent rollout of two newly authorized COVID-19 vaccines is a bright ray of hope at the pandemic’s darkest hour. We now have a path that can lead us to happier times — even as we watch and suffer from the horrible onslaught of new infections, hospitalizations and deaths that mark the end of this regrettable year. Health care workers and nursing home residents have already begun to get shots in the first phase of the rollout. Vaccinations should start to be available to the general public sometime in the first few months of next year. The two ...
Kaiser Health News
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COVID Vaccines Appear Safe and Effective, but Key Questions Remain
USE OUR CONTENT It can be republished for free. The recent rollout of two newly authorized COVID-19 vaccines is a bright ray of hope at the pandemic’s darkest hour. We now have a path that can lead us to happier times — even as we watch and suffer from the horrible onslaught of new infections, hospitalizations and deaths that mark the end of this regrettable year. Health care workers and nursing home residents have already begun to get shots in the first phase of the rollout. Vaccinations should start to be available to the general public sometime in the first few months of next year. The two ...
California Healthline
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Análisis: expertos desestimaron al coronavirus, hasta que fue demasiado tarde
Hace un año, mientras miles de estadounidenses terminaban sus compras navideñas y organizaban sus viajes, médicos en Wuhan, China, luchaban contra un misterioso brote de neumonía de origen desconocido. Los médicos chinos creyeron que estaban siendo testigos del regreso del síndrome respiratorio agudo severo (SARS) un coronavirus que surgió en China a fines de 2002 y se propagó a 8,000 personas en todo el mundo, matando a casi 800. La enfermedad nunca se propagó en los Estados Unidos, y desapareció en 2004. Aunque esta enfermedad no se ha registrado en 16 años, el SARS marcó como muchas nacione...
Kaiser Health News (Espanol)
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