[ad_1] Health officials in Austin, Texas issued a terrible warning on Friday that there are only about 16 staffed intensive care beds left for the entire region, an 11-county region that is home to more than two million people. people. This is the smallest number of intensive care beds available in the region since the … Read more
[ad_1] Dr Eddie Stenehjem, infectious disease physician at Intermountain Healthcare, warned on Friday that even though COVID-19 cases were rising rapidly, things could get worse once school starts in a few weeks. (Intermountain Healthcare, via Zoom) SALT LAKE CITY – Utah public health officials reported more than 1,000 new cases of COVID-19 for the second … Read more
[ad_1] The World Health Organization said Thursday that the Delta variant has led to an “increase” in coronavirus outbreaks triggering a “fourth wave” in the Middle East, where vaccination rates remain low. The world health body said the highly transmissible strain, first detected in India, has been recorded in 15 of 22 countries and territories … Read more
[ad_1] HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – As the state reports a continued increase in COVID cases, authorities have mapped the communities that have recorded the highest number of cases in the past 14 days. According to data from the state’s health department, the zip codes with the highest infections were found on the island of Oahu and … Read more
[ad_1] Rupture cases are not common in Washington state, health experts tell us. Below are the questions we asked them – some answers won’t come until the fall. How common are breakthrough cases in Washington State? Not common at all. From January 17 to July 24, only 0.1% of fully vaccinated Washingtonians tested positive for … Read more
[ad_1] OSAGE BEACH, Mo. (AP) – Daryl Barker was passionately against a COVID-19 vaccination, as were his loved ones. Then 10 of them fell ill and Barker, just 31, ended up in an intensive care unit in Missouri, fighting for his life. This is a scenario that is repeated over and over again at the … Read more
[ad_1] BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (WAFB) – Notre-Dame du Lac Regional Medical Center (OLOL) in Baton Rouge set a new record on Thursday, July 29. The hospital says it now has more COVID-19 patients than it had at any other time during the pandemic. OLOL indicates that it currently has 140 COVID-19 patients hospitalized, including 50 … Read more
[ad_1] MEDFORD, Oregon – Jackson County Public Health has issued another call for the public to get vaccinated against COVID-19, as the area is seeing a sharp increase in cases and hospitalizations. The county recorded the highest number of new cases reported in a single day since the start of the pandemic on Friday. “Today, … Read more
[ad_1] The state ignored San Antonio’s request for 550 nurses to help fill a shortage caused by an influx of COVID-19 patients, telling the city it will have to use its own federal stimulus money to pay for reinforcements. The state had previously hired recruiting companies to send travel nurses, doctors and respiratory therapists to … Read more
[ad_1] Amna Nawaz: Judy, the CDC examined a COVID outbreak in Provincetown, Massachusetts, around the weekend of July 4. Within weeks, this epidemic has spread to at least 469 people in the state, a state with nearly 70% vaccination rates among adults. Three-quarters of those infected had been fully vaccinated. Almost 80 percent were symptomatic. … Read more