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Kids’ mental health is still pediatricians’ greatest concern, one year into pandemic
PHILADELPHIA – Physician Steven Shapiro chairs the pediatrics department at Abington Hospital. He’s never been a therapist. Yet a big chunk of his medical practice these days is devoted to mental health issues, far more than ever before. “Twenty percent of the calls I take now are to put kids on more medicine for panic attacks and anxiety,” said Shapiro. “It’s more than you could ever believe. It has been so difficult for them, and as pediatricians, we have to recognize the downstream effects of where things are going.” Pediatricians and adolescent health experts have cautioned for months that...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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NY's COVID-19 hospitalization rates drop to lowest level in months amid vaccination acceleration
NEW YORK — New York’s coronavirus hospitalization rate fell to its lowest level in more than two months Friday as the state’s vaccination pace continued to pick up, according to officials. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said 5,626 New Yorkers were hospitalized statewide with COVID-19 as of Friday afternoon, the lowest level since Dec. 12. In the 24-hour period ending Friday, Cuomo said 179,038 doses of COVID-19 vaccine were administered in New York, an all-time high, with more than 4 million shots administered so far in the state in total. “Defeating COVID-19 is front and center in New York state, and decl...
New York Daily News
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Doctors under stress from COVID-19 say they need mental health services: ‘We’re human beings, just like everyone else’
CHICAGO – Chicago emergency room doctor Meeta Shah wiped down her face shield and stethoscope as she rushed from one patient to the next, some of them very sick with COVID-19, some of them dying. At home, she worried about how to keep her husband — also an ER doctor — and her two young children safe from the virus: Shower at work? Stop hugging the kids? And then there were the challenges of supervising her children’s remote learning, of a sudden gap in child care, of work emails that stretched past midnight. “It just really started to feel like a lot. It felt like my mind was loud, all the wor...
Chicago Tribune
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Doctors under stress from COVID-19 say they need mental health services: ‘We’re human beings, just like everyone else’
CHICAGO – Chicago emergency room doctor Meeta Shah wiped down her face shield and stethoscope as she rushed from one patient to the next, some of them very sick with COVID-19, some of them dying. At home, she worried about how to keep her husband — also an ER doctor — and her two young children safe from the virus: Shower at work? Stop hugging the kids? And then there were the challenges of supervising her children’s remote learning, of a sudden gap in child care, of work emails that stretched past midnight. “It just really started to feel like a lot. It felt like my mind was loud, all the wor...
Chicago Tribune
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'Walking Dead' stars Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride compare zombie apocalypse to pandemic, discuss Daryl and Carol's troubled friendship
The concept of a zombie apocalypse caused by a virus seems a little less outlandish these days. But at least one lead star of “The Walking Dead” — which returns for a bonus batch of season 10 episodes this weekend — thinks being on the run from the undead is a walk in the park compared to the real-life pandemic we’re going through. “The thing about the show is, it’s people coming together to get through something,” Norman Reedus, who plays long-haired loner Daryl Dixon on the hit postapocalyptic horror show, told the Daily News. “The only way you could do it during a pandemic is do it by phone...
New York Daily News
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Editorial: The kindness gap: Daniel Prude’s death should spur wholesale change in mental health care and policing
Read all of New York Attorney General Tish James’ report on Daniel Prude, a 41-year-old Black man who died last March in Rochester police custody. A tragedy on top of tragedy, Prude’s death — and what preceded — was probably preventable, with plenty of blame to go around. The cause: systemic flaws in police and mental health systems, but no crime, which is why James’ grand jury came back without an indictment. The facts, as thoroughly presented by James, leave no other conclusion. Daniel Prude’s situation was a complex psychiatric emergency. A Chicagoan, Daniel was visiting his brother Joe on ...
New York Daily News
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As COVID-19 vaccine in Kansas City remains scarce, Missouri town of 69 gets 2,000 doses
A mass vaccination event on Wednesday in Leopold — population 69 — had 2,000 doses available, enough for anyone who showed up at the Knights of Columbus facility in the small southeast Missouri town. "ANYONE can go get the COVID vaccine at the Knights of Columbus. The health department has opened it up to anyone to avoid wasting the vaccine," KFVS-TV reporter Alayna Chapie wrote on Facebook. "A mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic is happening right now in Bollinger County at the Knights of Columbus in Leopold. Officials say they still have over 1,000 doses to give out. No appointment is necessary...
The Kansas City Star
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Trump endorses Sen. Jerry Moran — 12 days after vote to acquit him on incitement charge
WASHINGTON — Twelve days after Kansas Republican Sen. Jerry Moran voted to acquit former President Donald Trump for incitement of insurrection, he received Trump’s endorsement for re-election. Trump made the announcement Thursday evening. Moran will run for a third Senate term in 2022 in a state that went for Trump by double digits in two elections. “Senator Jerry Moran is doing a terrific job for the wonderful people of Kansas. Strong on Military, Vets, the Border, and our Second Amendment, Jerry has my Complete and Total Endorsement for his re-election in 2022!” Trump said in a statement rel...
The Kansas City Star
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3 Michigan jails become first in US to start installing COVID-19 air disinfectors
Three Wayne County, Michigan, jails are the first detention facilities in the U.S. to implement groundbreaking heated filtration technology units to tackle the spread of COVID-19. Thus far, 12 Integrated Viral Protection (IVP) units have been installed at five Wayne County buildings, three jails and two administrative. Through powerful circulation, the IVP units catch and kill airborne viruses — including tuberculosis, influenza as well as the novel coronavirus — while disinfecting the air. The decision to integrate the system was a personal one for Sheriff Raphael Washington, he said during t...
Detroit Free Press
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Ex-US Olympics gymnastics coach with ties to Larry Nassar kills himself after being charged
DETROIT — A former U.S. Olympics gymnastics coach from the Lansing area with ties to disgraced sports medicine doctor Larry Nassar died from suicide Thursday, hours after Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed human trafficking, sexual assault and racketeering charges against him, the attorney general's office confirmed. "My office has been notified that the body of John Geddert was found late this afternoon after taking his own life," Nessel said in a statement. "This is a tragic end to a tragic story for everyone involved.” Geddert's body was found by Michigan State Police troopers at 3...
The Detroit News
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