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Dr. William Dittrich M.D. looks over a COVID-19 patient in the Medical Intensive care unit (MICU) at St. Luke’s Boise Medical Center in Boise, Idaho on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021.. More then half of the patients in the ICU are COVID-19 positive, none of which are vaccinated. (AP Photo/Kyle Green) The summer surge of U.S. […]
The Department of Education is sending letters to the governors of Texas and Florida, as well as Florida school district superintendents, amid an escalating battle between the White House and state officials over school mask guidance as the Delta variant surges. In a new letter Friday, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona wrote to Republican Gov. Ron […]
Officials in the United States have authorised COVID-19 booster jabs for some people who have been vaccinated but have weakened immune systems as data comes in from US and international studies and the Delta variant spreads rapidly among the unvaccinated. Dr Janet Woodcock, the acting commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), said in […]
NEW YORK, Aug 9 (Reuters) – Only eight intensive care unit beds were available on Monday in the state of Arkansas, its governor said, as the rapid spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus pushed cases and hospitalizations in the United States to a six-month high. In neighboring Texas, Governor Greg Abbott asked hospitals […]
Reuters – COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the United States are at a six-month high, fueled by the rapid spread of the Delta variant across swathes of the country grappling with low vaccination rates. Nationwide, COVID-19 cases have averaged 100,000 for three days in a row, up 35% over the past week, according to a […]
The delta variant is driving a fifth wave of illness in Washington. Vaccinators are working with a new urgency to protect unvaccinated Latinos, the state’s largest ethnic minority — and least vaccinated among racial and ethnic groups. Source link
Under overcast skies Thursday morning, four bilingual public health outreach workers walked up and down both sides of International Boulevard in the heart of Fruitvale, an epicenter of the Bay Area’s COVID-19 pandemic, which has disproportionately impacted Latino and Black people. Clipboards in hand, Raquel Marquez, Carolina Quintero, Alexa Rivas and Efrain Trujillo—recent or soon-to-be […]
Under overcast skies Thursday morning, four bilingual public health outreach workers walked up and down both sides of International Boulevard in the heart of Fruitvale, an epicenter of the Bay Area’s COVID-19 pandemic, which has disproportionately impacted Latino and Black people. Clipboards in hand, Raquel Marquez, Carolina Quintero, Alexa Rivas and Efrain Trujillo—recent or soon-to-be […]
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis responded Wednesday to a White House attack from President Biden, who demanded he and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott “help or get out of the way” of administration efforts to mitigate the coronavirus. On “The Ingraham Angle”,
Mississippi and Arkansas face shortages of available intensive care beds as the delta variant sparks yet another surge in coronavirus cases around the country. Only six ICU beds for severely ill patients were available across all of Mississippi as of Wednesday morning, said Dr. Jonathan Wilson, chief administrative officer at the University of Mississippi Medical […]