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Military medical teams sent to New Mexico and six other western and midwestern states

Fri, 2021-12-10 11:07 — mike kraft
Navy medics join COVID fight in hard-hit New Mexico Dozens of U.S. Navy medics have deployed to New Mexico to treat a Delta variant-fueled surge in COVID-19 patients as part of a military operation to treat virus hotspots across Western and Midwest states. Shannon Stapleton Reuters
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Michigan snapshot: Covid-19 cases way up but not a single person who had booster shot has died

Fri, 2021-12-10 10:53 — mike kraft

(CNN) Nurse Katie Sefton never thought Covid-19 could get this bad -- and certainly not this late in the pandemic.

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Three more U.S. states facing Covid-19 case surges, hospital strains

Thu, 2021-12-09 20:28 — mike kraft
Indiana hospitals see record patient count amid virus surge | AP News INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana hospitals are seeing their highest-ever overall patient counts amid a monthlong COVID-19 surge and the state’s largest hospital system announced Thursday it had enlisted National Guard assistance. AP NEWS
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Three Northeast states deploy National Guard amid medical capacity crisis due to pandemic

Thu, 2021-12-09 11:10 — mike kraft

(CNN) The governors of Maine and New York deployed the National Guard in response to dangerously low capacity at statewide medical facilities due to the pandemic.

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Vaccinations for children slow and pediatricians also face other medical challenges.

Wed, 2021-12-08 20:08 — mike kraft
Amid Push to Vaccinate Children, Other Challenges Deluge Pediatricians CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Near the end of one of the first days that 5- to 11-year-olds could get a coronavirus shot last month, Dr. Anne Steptoe, a pediatrician, sat hunched in her cramped office between packages of diapers, onesies and children’s books, cataloging the week’s patients on her laptop. One teenage girl had been sleepless and suicidal; another was anemic. Several young boys had gained weight during the pandemic.
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Public health worker recruitment major focus of Senate’s new BIO Preparedness Workforce Act

Mon, 2021-11-29 20:53 — mike kraft
Public health worker recruitment major focus of Senate’s new BIO Preparedness Workforce Act - Homeland Preparedness News With COVID-19 daily emphasizing how critical health care workers are to modern society, a collection of U.S. senators this week proposed a student loan repayment program to drive recruitment and retention in the field of public health. The BIO Preparedness … Read More » Chris Galford Homeland Preparedness News
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White House unveils $1.5B investment to train more than 22,700 new healthcare providers

Tue, 2021-11-23 12:01 — mike kraft
White House unveils $1.5B investment to train more than 22,700 new healthcare providers American Rescue Plan-funded investments will yield "the largest field strength in history" for the National Health Service Corps, Nurse Corps and the Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Program, according to the White House. Dave Muoio FierceHealthcare
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Dutch start transporting COVID-19 patients to Germany but German hospital staffs nearing limits

Tue, 2021-11-23 11:12 — mike kraft
Dutch COVID-19 patients transferred to Germany as hospitals struggle The Netherlands started transporting COVID-19 patients across the border to Germany on Tuesday to ease pressure on Dutch hospitals, which are scaling back regular care to deal with a surge in coronavirus cases. Reuters Reuters
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U.S. Nursing Groups seek to Tackle COVID Misinformation

Fri, 2021-11-19 12:11 — mike kraft
Nursing Groups Look to Tackle COVID Misinformation Nurses have not been immune from fueling falsehoods Jennifer Henderson medpagetoday
 

Inaccuracies and falsehoods about COVID-19 continue to spread, with healthcare providers contributing to the confusion.

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Study of unvaccinated U.S. health care workers--30 percent were uinvaccinated as of mid September

Thu, 2021-11-18 20:57 — mike kraft

COVID-19 vaccination coverage among hospital-based healthcare personnel reported through the Department of Health and Human Services Unified Hospital Data Surveillance System, United States, January 20, 2021-September 15, 2021

 

An estimated 30 % of health care workers in the U.S. were still unvaccinated as of Sept  15, 2021.

 

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