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Rechazan a cuidadores familiares en sitios de vacunación contra covid de California
En California, la confusión y la comunicación fallida han provocado que algunos padres elegibles y cuidadores familiares de personas con discapacidades sean rechazados en los sitios de vacunación de covid. Oscar Madrigal es uno de esos cuidadores. Sus dos hijos están en el espectro del autismo y el menor requiere cuidados casi constantes. Cuando se comenzó a vacunar, Madrigal pensó que padres como él iban a tener prioridad y no tener que esperar mucho. En enero, el Departamento de Servicios para el Desarrollo de California emitió una carta indicando que los familiares como él se consideraban t...
Kaiser Health News (Espanol)
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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy slows race to defang the virus
All eyes are on the nation’s chaotic COVID-19 immunization rollout, as public health officials struggle to outpace the coronavirus and its variants by quickly inoculating those most likely to be hospitalized or die if infected. But in the months ahead, as the vaccine supply chain unkinks, the demand for shots is expected to ebb, leaving public health agencies with a different and perhaps greater challenge — coaxing people who aren’t sure they want a shot to roll up their sleeves. The goal is to reach herd immunity, a widely debated concept that most scientists say can be achieved by vaccinatin...
Stateline.org
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Children’s Hospitals Grapple With Young Covid ‘Long Haulers’
This story also ran on USA Today. It can be republished for free. A slumber party to celebrate Delaney DePue’s 15th birthday last summer marked a new chapter — one defined by illness and uncertainty. The teen from Fort Walton Beach, Florida, tested positive for covid-19 about a week later, said her mother, Sara, leaving her bedridden with flu-like symptoms. However, her expected recovery never came. Delaney — who used to train 20 hours a week for competitive dance and had no diagnosed underlying conditions — now struggles to get through two classes in a row, she said. If she overexerts herself...
Kaiser Health News
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In California, Caregivers of People With Disabilities Are Being Turned Away at COVID Vaccine Sites
This story is part of a partnership that includes KPCC, NPR and KHN. It can be republished for free. In California, confusion and botched communication has caused some eligible parents and family caregivers of people with disabilities to be turned away at covid vaccination sites. Oscar Madrigal is one of those caregivers. His two sons are on the autism spectrum and his youngest requires almost constant care. As the vaccination effort began, Madrigal hoped he and others like him would be prioritized, and he didn’t have long to wait. In January, the California Department of Developmental Service...
Kaiser Health News
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Children’s Hospitals Grapple With Young Covid ‘Long Haulers’
This story also ran on USA Today. It can be republished for free. A slumber party to celebrate Delaney DePue’s 15th birthday last summer marked a new chapter — one defined by illness and uncertainty. The teen from Fort Walton Beach, Florida, tested positive for covid-19 about a week later, said her mother, Sara, leaving her bedridden with flu-like symptoms. However, her expected recovery never came. Delaney — who used to train 20 hours a week for competitive dance and had no diagnosed underlying conditions — now struggles to get through two classes in a row, she said. If she overexerts herself...
California Healthline
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott lifts COVID-19 mask mandate, allows businesses to open at 100%
FORT WORTH, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott says it’s time to reopen businesses in Texas and remove the state’s mask mandate. “It is now time to open Texas 100%,” Abbott said in Lubbock, joined by Lubbock business leaders at Montelongo’s Mexican Restaurant. “Everybody who wants to work should have the opportunity. Every business that wants to be open should be open.” Abbott, a Republican, pointed to the state’s “abundance” of personal protective equipment, testing capabilities and antibody therapeutic drugs to treat the virus as reasons why businesses can fully reopen. He also maintained “Texans have...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott lifts COVID-19 mask mandate, allows businesses to open at 100%
FORT WORTH, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says it’s time to reopen businesses and remove the state’s mask mandate. “It is now time to open Texas 100%,” Abbott said in Lubbock, joined by Lubbock business leaders at Montelongo’s Mexican Restaurant. “Everybody who wants to work should have the opportunity. Every business that wants to be open should be open.” The announcement comes after Abbott hinted that his COVID-19 orders could soon be lifted. On Monday, sharing a tweet about his approval ratings, Abbott teased that “exciting news” was coming Tuesday. Abbott’s regular updates on guidelines f...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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Aprendiendo a vivir de nuevo: cómo se recuperan pacientes graves de covid
El brillo de sus ojos, el gozo de su sonrisa, la alegría con que mueve su cuerpo debilitado por la enfermedad. Todo en él envía un único y rotundo mensaje: ¡Agradecido de estar vivo! “Como me dicen mis cuidadores y mi familia: ‘Has vuelto a nacer. Ahora tienes que aprender a vivir de nuevo'”, dijo Vicente Perez Castro. “Fue una experiencia muy dura”. Algo así como ir al infierno… y volver. Perez, un cocinero de 57 años de Long Beach, California, apenas podía respirar cuando ingresó, el 5 de junio, en el centro médico Harbor-UCLA del condado de Los Angeles. Dio positivo en la prueba de covid-19...
Kaiser Health News (Espanol)
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Johnson & Johnson's vaccine is coming. Here's what you need to know about it
A third COVID-19 vaccine is coming to town — this time from American pharma giant Johnson & Johnson. The Food and Drug Administration authorized the vaccine on Saturday, after it was encouraged to do so by an independent panel of doctors and researchers. Infectious disease expert Dr. Mark Sawyer of Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego was one of them. We reached out to him to understand how this vaccine works and how it compares to the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines. Sawyer sat on the FDA advisory panels for those vaccines, too, and is one of 11 experts tapped by California Gov. Gavin Newsom to ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
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Sorting Out How Politics, Policies Figure in Flap Over New York Nursing Home Covid Death Rates
The plaudits have faded for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Once hailed as a paragon of pandemic governing, he’s since come under scorching criticism for undercounting the state’s covid deaths among nursing home residents by as much as half. The tallying flap drew attention to another misstep: a policy last March that directed nursing homes to accept covid-positive patients from hospitals, potentially exposing high-risk, medically vulnerable nursing home residents to the deadly virus. Did the governor intentionally fudge nursing home death counts to deflect attention from the impact of an ill-advi...
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