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A club nobody 'wanted to join': How Covid widows are finding support through Facebook

Fri, 2021-01-01 12:51 — mike kraft

A club nobody ‘wanted to join’: How Covid widows are finding support through Facebook "A lot of young women are losing their husbands to this, and they think they are alone," the group's founder said. "We need to come together and support each other, because Covid-19 is like a different type of death." NBC News

The last time Pamela Addison saw her husband alive, on April 3, she managed to mouth the words "I love you" to him before the paramedics loaded him into the ambulance.

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Researchers think 'hundreds' of people in US could have new UK coronavirus strain

Fri, 2021-01-01 12:31 — mike kraft

Researchers think 'hundreds' of people in US could have new UK coronavirus strain Researchers studying the new UK strain of the coronavirus think it likely arrived in the US in mid-November, and that many people in the United States could already be infected. Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent CNN

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US debates whether UK approach is better on COVID-19 vaccinations

Fri, 2021-01-01 12:20 — mike kraft

US debates whether UK approach is better on COVID-19 vaccinations A new approach to COVID-19 vaccination just adopted in the United Kingdom is gaining traction in America, but is dividing public health experts. Nathaniel Weixel TheHill

A new approach to COVID-19 vaccination just adopted in the United Kingdom is gaining traction in America, but is dividing public health experts.

In an effort to push out as many doses of the vaccine as possible, British officials will no longer hold back the second of two doses.

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It'll be months before vaccines are widespread enough to turn the tide of the pandemic in the US, experts say

Fri, 2021-01-01 11:42 — mike kraft

It'll be months before vaccines are widespread enough to turn the course of the pandemic in the US, experts say As the US ushered in 2021, more than 125,300 Covid-19 patients remained hospitalized -- another record for the fourth day in a row. Christina Maxouris, CNN CNN

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US sets daily Covid-19 death record for the second straight day. Another 80,000 could die in next 3 weeks, new forecast says

Thu, 2020-12-31 16:48 — mike kraft

A new forecasts projects more than 80,000 Americans could die of Covid-19 in next 3 weeks As 2020 nears its end, the US still is setting one-day records for Covid-19 deaths and hospitalizations. Christina Maxouris, CNN CNN

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OPINION: Stopping the syndemic: Covid-19 plus other debilitating and deadly diseases

Thu, 2020-12-31 15:57 — mike kraft

Stopping the syndemic: Covid-19 plus other deadly diseases - STAT As the pandemic rips across the world, other debilitating and deadly diseases are left undiagnosed and untreated. We're facing a syndemic. Patrick Skerrett STAT

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As Covid surges in Mississippi Delta, food banks and hospitals are stretched thin

Thu, 2020-12-31 13:49 — mike kraft

A Mississippi community was already struggling. Now, it’s facing its worst Covid outbreak. Three in 1,000 residents in Bolivar County have died from the coronavirus, devastating one of the most vulnerable rural regions in the country. NBC News

JACKSON, Miss. — Four days before Christmas, Chiquikta Fountain watched as a growing line of cars stretched down a mile of road in the Mississippi Delta.

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Immigrants get help from states, cheer inclusion in US bill

Thu, 2020-12-31 13:35 — mike kraft

Immigrants get help from states, cheer inclusion in US bill SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Lily Guido was having trouble hearing and she felt warm while talking to her co-worker at a California nursing home. She knew something was wrong. Fearing the... AP NEWS

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Lily Guido was having trouble hearing and she felt warm while talking to her co-worker at a California nursing home. She knew something was wrong.

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Local funding crisis threatens U.S. vaccine rollout

Thu, 2020-12-31 13:25 — mike kraft

Local funding crisis threatens U.S. vaccine rollout Seattle public health officials have so little COVID-19 funding on hand they worry they will have to shut down some virus testing sites as they mount a campaign to dose their 2.3 million residents with Pfizer Inc's and Moderna Inc's vaccines. Carl O’Donnell, Rebecca Spalding U.S.

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Here’s Why Distribution of the Vaccine Is Taking Longer Than Expected

Thu, 2020-12-31 13:02 — mike kraft

In Florida, less than one-quarter of delivered coronavirus vaccines have been used, even as older people sat in lawn chairs all night waiting for their shots. In Puerto Rico, last week’s vaccine shipments did not arrive until the workers who would have administered them had left for the Christmas holiday. In California, doctors are worried about whether there will be enough hospital staff members to both administer vaccines and tend to the swelling number of Covid-19 patients.

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California has nation’s 2nd confirmed case of virus variant

Wed, 2020-12-30 18:54 — mike kraft

Colorado Guardsman has 1st reported US case of virus variant DENVER (AP) — The first person in the U.S. known to be infected with a new and apparently more contagious variant of the coronavirus was identified Wednesday as a Colorado National Guardsman who... AP NEWS

California on Wednesday announced the nation’s second confirmed case of the new and apparently more contagious variant of the coronavirus, offering a strong indication that the infection is spreading more widely in the United States.

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Q&A EXPLAINER: Scientists trying to understand new virus variant

Wed, 2020-12-30 18:16 — mike kraft

EXPLAINER: Scientists trying to understand new virus variant Does it spread more easily? Make people sicker? Mean that treatments and vaccines won’t work? Questions are multiplying as fast as new variants of the coronavirus, especially the one moving... AP NEWS

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Dialysis clinics provide new path for delivery of stockpiled COVID-19 antibody drugs in U.S.

Wed, 2020-12-30 17:51 — mike kraft

Exclusive-Dialysis clinics provide new path for delivery of stockpiled COVID-19 antibody drugs in U.S. Dialysis centers in the United States are rolling out COVID-19 antibody treatments this week, a new path for delivery of Eli Lilly and Regeneron drugs approved for emergency use but facing skepticism and logistical problems in some hospitals. Deena Beasley U.S.

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Explanations for ‘long Covid’ remain elusive. Research in early stages

Wed, 2020-12-30 11:15 — mike kraft

Explanations for ‘long Covid’ remain elusive. Believing patients helps “The vaccines and therapeutics, they were easy. With this post-acute Covid syndrome ... it's kind of a wild, wild West right now.” Elizabeth Cooney STAT

Nearly a year into the coronavirus pandemic, the perplexing problems of Covid-19 long-haulers seem no nearer resolution — or even explanation — than when they first puzzled doctors and patients in the spring.

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