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A new WHO report indicates that other countries had more excess deaths that the US during the Covid pandemic

Thu, 2022-05-05 19:40 — mike kraft

Does US really have world's highest Covid death toll? A new report suggests other countries had more excess deaths than US during the pandemic. BBC News

The US is approaching one million Covid deaths - the highest total officially recorded anywhere in the world.

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COVID-19 hospital admissions, deaths forecast to rise in the US for first time in months

Thu, 2022-05-05 08:49 — mike kraft

COVID-19 hospital admissions, deaths forecast to rise in the US for first time in months The projected increases come after weeks of steady upticks in infections across the country. ABC News ABC News

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Newer, fitter descendants of Omicron variant begin to drive their own coronavirus waves

Wed, 2022-05-04 09:49 — mike kraft

Newer, fitter descendants of Omicron variant begin to drive their own coronavirus waves There's no denying the numbers: Even with spotty reporting, Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations are rising again in the United States. Brenda Goodman, CNN CNN

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Ending of Federal Pandemic Aid Stresses Hospitals That Treat the Uninsured

Mon, 2022-05-02 13:00 — mike kraft

Loss of Pandemic Aid Stresses Hospitals That Treat the Uninsured NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Mary Howard, a dishwasher with no health insurance, has never had COVID-19. But the coronavirus, she said, caused her life to spiral over the past two years. Friends died from it. Ordinary parts of her day, like riding the bus, felt perilous.

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Dr. Deborah Birx says US must prepare for summer COVID surge as immunity wanes

Mon, 2022-05-02 09:22 — mike kraft

Birx says US must prepare for summer COVID surge as immunity wanes Deborah Birx, a leading member of the Trump administration’s White House coronavirus task force, said on Sunday the U.S. should be prepared for another potential COVID-19 surge after a recent uptic… mbeals The Hill

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Florida lost 70,000 people to Covid. It’s still not prepared for the next wave, faces hospital staff shortages.

Mon, 2022-05-02 09:14 — mike kraft

Florida lost 70,000 people to Covid. It’s still not prepared for the next wave. A report by the Florida Hospital Association estimates 70 percent of Florida hospitals are facing a critical staffing shortage, and the state will be short 60,000 nurses by 2035. POLITICO

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Florida COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are on the rise again

Thu, 2022-04-28 10:49 — mike kraft

COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are on the rise again in Florida

While cases and hospitalizations have been rising, they are still at relatively low levels when compared to previous periods of the pandemic.

Coronavirus cases have been steadily rising in Florida for more than a month.

The Florida Department of Health reported nearly 20,860 new cases for the week ending April 21 in its latest report released Friday, up from 15,623 cases the previous week.

The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 has also gone up. As of Tuesday afternoon, federal health officials say there were 985 COVID-positive patients in the state’s hospitals. ...

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Some Canadian hospitals are again facing COVID cancellations

Fri, 2022-04-22 10:09 — mike kraft

Some Canadian hospitals face COVID cancellations - again Some hospitals in Canada's most populous provinces are cancelling or postponing medical procedures in the face of another wave of the coronavirus pandemic, increasing backlogs of procedures that health practitioners say will take years to work through and could cost more lives. Anna Mehler Paperny Reuters

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Effective treatments for COVID are now available. Why are they not being used?

Thu, 2022-04-21 08:42 — mike kraft

Effective treatments for COVID are now available. Why are they not being used? Awareness varies about the availability and effectiveness of 'miracle' COVID treatments, experts say. Once in short supply, they are now underused. YahooNews

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Omicron Hospitalization Doubled in Unvaxxed Children--CDC

Wed, 2022-04-20 12:05 — mike kraft

CDC: Omicron Hospitalization Doubled in Unvaxxed Children During recent wave, 30% of hospitalized kids ages 5 to 11 had no preexisting conditions Molly Walker medpagetoday

Unvaccinated children ages 5 to 11 were more than twice as likely to be hospitalized for COVID-19 during the Omicron wave, and nearly a third of hospitalized kids overall had no underlying medical conditions while about a fifth required intensive care unit (ICU) admission, researchers found.

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